Press and Publicity

In January 2008, Channel 4 brought together Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay for its first Big Food Fight season, which delivered some of its highest ratings of the year and put animal welfare issues at the centre of public debate. One year on, Channel 4's latest recruit, Heston Blumenthal, joins the line-up for a follow-up season, the Great British Food Fight, which aims to celebrate the best of British food and explore issues around food production in a number of hard-hitting films.

Launching the season, chef Heston Blumenthal, who has three Michelin stars, sets out to transform the menu of the troubled Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants in Big Chef, Little Chef (w/t).

In Jamie Saves Our Bacon, Jamie Oliver investigates why Britain's pig farmers are going out of business. Jamie once again aims to help consumers make better-informed choices about the food they eat by showing exactly how pigs live and die in order to put pork, ham and bacon on our plates.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns with Chicken, Hugh & Tesco Too (w/t) to rejoin battle with Britain's biggest retailer, which is still reluctant to join his free range chicken revolution. Now Hugh is a shareholder, can he get the supermarket to change its ways?

In Gordon's Great British Nightmare, Gordon Ramsay will be campaigning for viewers to start patronising local restaurants. He will also be passing on tips to restaurant owners on how best to cope with the credit crunch.

And Pig Business, featuring as part of the True Stories strand on More4, is an investigation by eco-campaigner, Tracy Worcester, of the impact of intensive pig farming on human and environmental health.

Contacts

Press Contacts
Big Chef, Little Chef
Chicken, Hugh & Tesco Too
Gordon Food Prog
Saskia Wirth
swirth@channel4.co.uk

Jamie Saves Our Bacon
Matthew Robinson
mr.pr@virgin.net

Pig Business
Justine Bower
jbower@channel4.co.uk