Donal’s Super Food in Minutes
Monday, 2 March at 7.30pm (10 Parts)
This series is all about meals for the modern cook, that just so happen to be good for you! Quick cooking, as any busy home cook will know, is an essential skill. With growing interest in veg-forward eating, health-conscious cooks are looking for new ways to bring food to the table without the fuss. Donal Skehan’s Donal’s Super Food In Minutes is a celebration of recipes, tips & kitchen hacks that will provide busy families with real food that packs a nutritional punch and delivers big on world flavour.
Episode One:
If you’re looking for some delicious (and easy!) inspiration for your mealtimes, look no further! Donal Skehan is back with a selection of game-changing recipes, perfect for the home cook. This week’s offering includes Summer vegetable braised chicken, a crowd-pleasing General Tso’s stir fry with tofu, a lunchtime saviour Mushroom Grain bowl, a simple Spice-crusted Lamb with a fresh white bean and tomato salad and a Caramelised banana dessert that Donal attempts to get to the dinner table in five minutes flat!
River Cottage Reunited
Monday, 16 March at 8.30pm (4 Parts)
River Cottage Reunited sees the revival of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s back-to-basics food brand more than 20 years since the show made its debut. Filmed in the River Cottage smallholding in east Devon, the show follows Fearnley-Whittingstall and his team, which includes forager John Wright and fire-cook Gill Mellor, as they tend the garden, while looking after hens, piglets and baby goats. It also includes a campaign to protect woodlands by encouraging people to eat more venison and shows viewers how to grow, prepare and cook fresh food using, wild ingredients, sea vegetables and fish and shellfish.
Episode One:
There’s a buzz around River Cottage with a visit from a wildlife revolutionary Matt, who puts Hugh to work with a chainsaw transforming a tree trunk into a brand-new home.
New York Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Thursday 12 March at 7.30pm
Get ready to embark on a food adventure with Justine as she dives into the bold, vibrant food scene of New York.
Like we need more American focused content. Snore.
Tour de Fred: Northern Ireland
Saturday, 4 April at 7.30pm (5 Parts)
Fred Sirieix is TV’s favourite Frenchman and has many passions - travel, culture, food, hospitality and cycling - and now he is looking for a fresh adventure. Join Fred as he takes on a series of cycling challenges on the sometimes gruelling but often spectacular roads of Northern Ireland.
Episode One: The Mourne Mountains
Fred Sirieix is cycling in Northern Ireland. In County Down, he’s heading to the Mourne Mountains on a steep climbing route that will really test his stamina.
Preview of series 1
Series 2 premiered on ITV in January this year, and this time Fred’s daughter was involved.
Come Dine With Me - Season 22
From Monday, 6 April at 9.30pm/10.00pm (25 Parts)
A new season of Come Dine With Me is here, and it’s back with brand-new hosts, bold themes, and instant first impressions that matter. From cocktail nights and themed dinners to sharp opinions, awkward silences, and classic CDWM judgement, this season delivers fresh drama, big personalities, and unforgettable dinner parties from the very first welcome to the final scores.
Come Dine With Me (Season 22) airs double episodes every weekday from Monday, 6 April.
C21 reports SBS has bought two food shows from Cineflix Rights: Ainsley’s Taste of The Bahamas, which debuted on ITV on January 3 this year, and season two of Dermot’s Taste of Ireland.
River Cottage Autumn
Monday, 13 April at 8.30pm (4 Parts)
Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall returns to the River Cottage in time for the autumn harvest. On offer are root vegetables, game, and orchard fruits, and Hugh puts the produce to good use.
Episode One:
It’s autumn at River Cottage and Hugh’s going to get us all eating beetroot. There is duck on the menu too, hatched by Hugh himself as well as some wild birds bagged by hunter-gatherer chef, Tim. We return to Bramble Farm, to see how Hugh’s Bristol smallholders are handling their harvest.
Locals Welcome
Wednesday, 22 April at 7.30pm (10 Parts)
For generations, thousands of South Asian immigrants have passed through the Toronto’s Pearson Airport’s arrival gates, hoping to build a new home. Many found employment at Pearson International and settled in the area around the airport, in the process creating an area that’s part middle class suburb, part industrial “no man’s land” and an incredible area to explore South Asian cuisine. Here, South Asians from the disparate regions of Punjab, Gujarat, and South India all live within a 20km radius of each other, and that proximity means that anyone with a car and a healthy appetite can go on a culinary journey from one end to another.
Episode One:
Naija. Maybe you’ve heard the colloquial term used by young Nigerians for their country. Some associate it with a new dawn for Nigeria. Others associate it with the immense pride Nigerians feel for a culture exploding with creativity. And for Suresh Doss, who spent a good deal of his childhood in Nigeria, Naija reminds him of the place that changed his palette forever. Naija is igniting everything it touches—from music to fashion, and especially to food.
Instant Italian
Friday, 24 April at 7.30pm (12 Parts)
Instant Italian works to take favourite Italian dishes and make them quick and easy for modern home cooks. Drawing on inspiration from her childhood visiting family in Calabria, Anna Gass is known for her ingenious spins on familiar dishes. Whether she is transforming pasta with a snackable fried version (just minutes in an air fryer), perfecting a deeply-flavoured chicken cacciatore for an easy sheet-pan supper, or putting a creative twist on desserts like affogato mug cake and cannoli icebox cake, Anna is always finding fun and unique ways to update meals while still keeping the flavours true to their roots.
Episode One:
Anna shows how to take pizza dough to a whole new level with her recipes for Pizza Montanare,
a fried pizza, and Bubble Bread, a crisp dough with a cheesy centre.
Instant Italian is produced by Rachael Ray’s Free Food Studios and premiered in USA in March 2025. Anna Gass has written two cookbooks (both of which are available in Australia) and is working on her third.
