Pest control on the small screen – again

Pest control is once again being beamed into viewers’ front rooms on their TV screens. Dishing the Dirt is a four-part series going out on ITV 1, whilst those with Sky (and now available on YouTube) saw the use of rodenticides on farms on Farming Sunday.

Episode two, of the series of four, called Dishing the Dirt went out at 22.35 on 20 October. The thrust of the series is a 'behind the scenes' exposé of filthy restaurants around the country and the bad practices they were getting away with. The series could only feature restaurants which had been prosecuted for bad practice of food handling within the last 12 months. The 20 October episode exposed three Indian restaurants on Manchester’s Curry Mile, the closure of a Greek restaurant in London along with a posh Chinese restaurant in Mayfair visited by EHO Claire Ritchie from Westminster City Council.

Resident pest control consultant to the series is none other than Peter Crowden of Rutland Pest Control and currently chairman of NPTA. Peter featured for roughly 15 minutes in the 20 October edition along with Rachel Wilcox and Phil Vicery who host the show.

Peter is no stranger to TV work as he was involved with the Restaurants from Hell series. Enthusing as ever, Peter advocates we all tune in to the last episode on 3 November as the whole issue of sticky boards and DIY pest control comes under the spot-light in a London restaurant. Yummy yummy! Does Peter ever eat out one wonders?