Eat Your Heart Out With Nick Helm

Interview, Nick Helm

I interviewed Nick Helm this summer for the London Evening Standard in the run-up to his new tour and new Dave TV series Eat Your Heart Out. You can read the original interview there but he said so much that I couldn't fit in that I've posted the interview transcript below.

This foodie odyssey from the star of Uncle seems like an opportunistic brand extension, with Helm guzzling freebies at some of his favourite chow dens and booze holes - but, as the title suggests, there's more going on under the surface. The spaced-out comic dishes up some melodrama between bites that makes it feel like a more lo-fi take on The Trip, with an opening double bill that is London-centric but very fun.

Eat Your Heart Out With Nick Helm preview

It's engaging, without being compelling, but surely able to stand the multiple repeats a Dave programme needs. For if there's one thing TV has shown us, viewers can't get enough of cookery shows.