Great British Menu

A Cooking Show on The BBC which started in 2006, in which culinary professionals compete to get their dishes onto the menu for a big event at the end of the series.


 * Everything Is an Instrument: The tension music for the announcement of the winner is played on kitchen utensils. They also turn up in some of the other incidental music.
 * Four Point Scale: Effectively a five-point scale. Daily scores are out of 10, but a maximum score is rare and in practice, scores don't drop below 5. Somewhat justified in that these are professional chefs who really ought to be able to turn out above-average dishes consistently. The three main judges in the final week are less coy about using the full range of scores.
 * Living Prop: Each chef is provided with an assistant to, well, assist. No one refers to these assistants by name (or even acknowledges their presence) and they are seldom heard to speak, except to cheer the winning chef at the end of the week.
 * Theme and Variations Soundtrack
 * Trailers Always Spoil: Everything bar the actual results. Though to give the editors some credit, they did manage not to spoil the cliffhanger of whether or not Johnnie Mountain walked in the 2012 series. THIS spoiler spoils: