Saturday Kitchen: 03/01/2026


10:00 am - 11:30 am, Saturday, January 3 on BBC One London HD (101)

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About this Broadcast

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03/01/2026
Season 2026, Episode 1

Matt Tebbutt is joined by chefs Richard Bainbridge, Anna Haugh and Andrew Wong, and by special guest Ashley Jensen. Helen McGinn picks the drinks to go with the studio dishes


HD subtitles 16x9
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Cast & Crew

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Matt Tebbutt (Presenter)
Helen McGinn (Contributor)
Anna Haugh (Guest)
Amanda Ross (Executive producer)
James Bedwell (Series producer)
Alice Pople (Producer)

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Did You Know..

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Matt Tebbutt (Presenter)
Best Known For: Being a celebrity chef.
Early-life: Matt was born in High Wycombe in 1973 and raised in South Wales. After gaining a diploma at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, he went on to work for some of London's most prestigious restaurants, including the Oak Room and Criterion.
Career: Between 2009 and 2011, Tebbutt presented Saturday Kitchen on BBC One when regular host James Martin was away. He has also had presenting roles on the Great British Menu, Drop Down Menu, Market Kitchen: Big Adventure and Food Unwrapped. He used to own and run the Foxhunter restaurant in Nant-y-derry near Usk in South Wales.
Quote: "Being thrown in the deep-end in a top kitchen is daunting, but its brilliant experience."
Trivia: In 2008, Tebbutt published the book Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking.
Helen McGinn (Contributor)
Ashley Jensen (Guest)
Born: August 10, 1969 in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Best Known For: Playing Maggie in Extras.
Early-life: Ashley Jensen was born in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on August 10, 1969, and raised by her mother Margaret. She claims to have known from an early age that she wanted to be an actress, and enjoyed dressing up as a child. Jensen later joined London's National Youth Theatre before taking a diploma in speech and drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret College. After graduating, she worked with the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and the Tron and the Traverse theatres in Edinburgh.
Career: Jensen's first TV role was in a Screen One film called Dreaming, which starred Billy Connolly. In the early 1990s, she appeared in shows such as Tickets for the Zoo, Down Among the Big Boys, May to December, Rab C Nesbitt and Roughnecks. A more prominent role came when she was cast as Angie Raeburn in Two Thousand Acres of Sky, but she reached a huge audience as Maggie Jacobs in BBC sitcom Extras. The actress has scooped a number of awards for playing the unlucky-in-love singleton, including a coveted Rose d'Or. She also starred with Patrick Stewart in ITV drama Eleventh Hour, and became well known in America thanks to her role as Christina in Ugly Betty. More recent projects include short-lived American sitcom Accidentally on Purpose, BBC comedy Nativity, ITV drama The Reckoning and providing voiceovers for animated films Gnomeo and Juliet, Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
Quote: "I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend."
Trivia: Jensen married actor Terence Beesley in 2007.
Richard Bainbridge (Guest)
Andrew Wong (Guest)
Anna Haugh (Guest)
Amanda Ross (Executive producer)
James Bedwell (Series producer)
Alice Pople (Producer)

Before / After

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Breakfast
06:00 am