Did anyone watch this? I've been on the road tonight, but recorded it and just starting to watching. Reckon this is going to be really good.
The Diets That Time Forgot
Tuesday 18 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4
1/6
Nine volunteers are subjected to archaic nutritional indignities in the opening episode of this enjoyably silly, six-part self-improvement series. With a premise hinged, precariously, on the idea that our late-19th- and early-20thcentury forebears were thinner than we are, it stifles a snigger as it unveils the eccentric diets that its pudgy subjects will endure during their 24-day stint at the "Institute of Physical Culture" mansion. Among the old-time treats awaiting these wary diners are semi-plucked Victorian pheasants, stewed cucumber, and stentorian supervisor Sir Roy Strong, a wonderfully prickly toff in tweed plus fours whose palpable disgust for his charges' lethargy ("I am repelled by what I see") suggests their experience will be as tense as it is unpalatable.
The Diets That Time Forgot
Tuesday 18 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4
1/6
Nine volunteers are subjected to archaic nutritional indignities in the opening episode of this enjoyably silly, six-part self-improvement series. With a premise hinged, precariously, on the idea that our late-19th- and early-20thcentury forebears were thinner than we are, it stifles a snigger as it unveils the eccentric diets that its pudgy subjects will endure during their 24-day stint at the "Institute of Physical Culture" mansion. Among the old-time treats awaiting these wary diners are semi-plucked Victorian pheasants, stewed cucumber, and stentorian supervisor Sir Roy Strong, a wonderfully prickly toff in tweed plus fours whose palpable disgust for his charges' lethargy ("I am repelled by what I see") suggests their experience will be as tense as it is unpalatable.