Cooking with Andy

So it's nearly here. Yes, schedules released today reveal Big Brother 9 is launching as expected on June 5. But Monkey is intrigued by what Channel 4 is serving up as an accompaniment. To whet viewers' appetites, in BB9 launch week Channel 4 has cookery, cookery and er... more lashings of cookery. On Tuesday at 9pm we have Gordon Ramsay's F Word. Then on Wednesday at 9pm there's Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cottage Spring and on Thursday at 8pm there's Come Dine With Me. This must be what Channel 4 boss Andy Duncan meant when he said, "What distinguishes Channel 4 from all our competitors is our focus on bringing creative innovation from the margins into the mainstream."