What: The Big Family Cooking Showdown is the BBC's completely transparent attempt to fill the space left when The Great British Bake Off/Baking Show decamped for Channel 4.
In addition to the naming, we've got a similar format --- amateur British competitors making food, two judges, two hosts, a series of challenges --- and they've even lifted in the delightful Nadiya Hussain, the breakout favorite from GBBO.
And it pretty much works! This time it's families cooking entire meals. In the first several episodes, two families compete head-to-head, giving us a narrow enough focus that we actually get to know the people a bit. This only increases the show's charm attack, which is the most important thing Cooking Showdown took from GBBO.
Also, the people I liked often won. This of course made me like the show more.
How to get it: It airs on BBC2, but here in the U.S. it's streaming on Netflix.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Nadiya Hussain was one of the People in Media I Actually Liked in 2016.
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