Series 1
Series Summary
This six-part series features dinner parties for a variety of everyday purposes: from meeting the in-laws to setting up single friends. Viewers will have a keyhole view into all the explosive opinions; pretensions and volatile situations that promise to unravel.
The Dinner Party Inspectors; our arbitrators of all that is gourmet and socially correct are; Victoria Mather, writer and social commentator, will be monitoring the art and desecration of some of the more stifling and embarrassing moments in the human relationships; while Editor of the Arts Review, Meredith Etherington Smith, celebrated for her social mores, brings her expertise to oversee etiquette, culinary finesse and table manners.
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Episodes (6)
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Under inspection this week is an Islington dinner party, hosted by flamboyant artiste Jamie. Pretensions are high on the cooking front but…
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Meredith and Victoria drop in on young Alexandra, who is hosting her first black tie dinner party for seven elite students from Oxford…
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Meredith and Victoria enjoy a rainy evening at a caravan site in Wales where they scrutinise a dinner hosted by the McDermott family in…
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This week's singles-only dinner party in Essex has the inspectors captivated as, along with the inevitable flirting and sexual tensions…
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The Inspectors are back in Essex with hostess Paris, a dinner party virgin. Culinary disaster is followed by tensions between old and new…
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The stakes are high for suburban housewife Vicki Browne. Will her reputation as 'dinner party diva' be confirmed or denied by our judicious…
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