The Katering Show’, premiering February 11th 2015 – The journey of a food intolerant, and an intolerable foodie – by Kate McLennan & Kate McCartney
From the co-creators and stars of award-winning web series Bleak (Official selection New York
Television Festival, First Glance Film Festival LA, Miami Web Fest, Melbourne Web Fest, LA Web Fest) comes a brand new comedy series on everyone’s favourite TV channel, YouTube.
Crack open the cooking sherry and pour it down your gullet! A proud (food) baby borne from the brains of two of Australia’s fast-rising stars of the comedy world, The Katering Show is a six episode web series that parodies our country’s proud and persistent passion for culinary television.
As Australia and the world turn to the web for entertainment, Kate McCartney (ABC TV’s Problems, Dirty Laundry Live, Adam Hills Tonight, Kath & Kim; Channel 7’s Big Bite, Hamish and Andy) and Kate McLennan (ABC TV’s It’s a Date, Comedy Up Late; Network Ten’s Offspring, Channel 7’s Winners and Losers) have whipped up a feast of a series.
McLennan loves to wander around fresh produce markets and smoke her own meats. McCartney, conversely, happily stores her DVDs in her oven. Her disinterest in food is exacerbated by the fact that she has been recently diagnosed with a variety of food intolerances that mean she lives everyday with the risk of a very public accident in her pants.
Over six episodes, The Katering Show follows McLennan (a horrendously smug foodie) as she tries to teach McCartney (a food-intolerant anti-foodie) how to cook a new dish each week.
Through the power of ‘food and friendship’, The Katering Show sees spritely and fresh ingredient-loving McLennan set out to eliminate wheat, dairy, fructose, chilli, nuts and legumes from McCartney’s diet by punching out inspired and health-conscious recipes. As the two hosts explore the smorgasbord of modern food trends and the world of food intolerances, McLennan channels every food show TV host she’s ever seen while McCartney staves off boredom with a hipflask of (low fructose) wine.
“At the start of The Katering Show I promised to change McCartney’s life through the power of good food and even better friendship, which was probably a lie, but if I can change the life of one 45-year-old man pretending to be a 13-year-old girl on YouTube then it’s all been worth it.” – Kate McLennan
“Before we started The Katering Show I didn’t know any foodie terms at all. Now I know that when the ‘maître de’ offers me an ‘umami tasting plate’, I want to ‘deconstruct’ him.” – Kate McCartney
Together, the pair travel to fresh-produce markets; create a food truck experience (in McLennan’s gutter); quit sugar to control their life expectancy and become just like their Instagram hair idol, Sarah Wilson; make home-made food porn (‘which may lack edibility but makes up for it in carcinogens’); road test a Thermomix; embrace the most alluring but problematic cuisine for McCartney’s bowels – Mexican – and provide audiences with fool proof recipes to cope with a family Christmas.
This is Poh’s Kitchen meets Absolutely Fabulous. This is lifestyle entertainment cooked up in a pan you thought was simmering until it started spitting hot oil at your eyes. This is for people with Internet access.
If you have ever wanted to see the ‘ideal’ dairy and gluten-free gorgonzola flan be flattened by a drunk person wielding a meat tenderizer, then The Katering Show is for you.
“The script was incredible… I cannot tell you enough how much you really should make time to check out her show. You won’t regret it.” Adelaide Advertiser (on Kate McLennan)
The Katering Show
Premieres Wednesday February 11th 2015
Subscribe to the full six-episode series at Lead Balloon TV’s YouTube:
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