A successful recipe for entertainment

Press, 25 August 1976, Page 15

A successful recipe for entertainment

Peter Hudson and David, Halls, TV2’s Tuesday andj Thursday afternoon cooking! experts and afternoon con-' tinuity announcers, are to have their own one-hour, cooking and variety show. Called simply “Hudson! and Halls,’’ it will go to air I live on Wednesday after-, noons, the first on Septem-, her 22. The present 10-minutel cooking programme will be: extended to about 20 min-! utes, allowing more adven-j turous dishes to be prepared,'

, and still leaving plenty of! j time for live music — and! I for “H and H” to chat with! a variety of guests. “Hudson and Halls” will: be produced by John Carlaw,! whose other productions forj TV2 include “Telethon,” and! I “Something to Look For-' ward To.” i The fine details of the; show have still to be| !worked out, but Carlaw in-; : tends giving Hudson and; ■Halls plenty of rein for their: .effervescent style. ' “If I make rules they’d!

i only break them,” he said !i philosophically. “We'll let: .things just bubble along, but there will be live music. And there'll be guests every I week — mostly New Zea- | landers but also interesting | overseas people passing ’ through,” : The initial series will be j for 14 programmes, but the : demands of preparing them (will mean that Hudson and Halls will not be able to .continue in their present I roles as afternoon continuity: I announcers.