Mentorn Scotland Lands Trio of BBC Commissions

Mentorn Scotland has added to its factual slate with three new titles headed for the BBC, including the traveling culinary show Corner Shop Cook-Off.

For BBC Scotland, the 6×60-minute Corner Shop Cook-Off, presented by Clare Grogan, sees a professional chef go head to head with the show’s resident chef—MasterChef: The Professionals winner Gary Maclean—to create three courses using only ingredients bought from a featured corner shop. Each week the cooking roadshow will turn up to a different corner shop, traveling all over Scotland.

Comedian Mark Nelson will front Bad Influencer (6×30 min.), also for BBC Scotland. This weekly show, which will see Mark joined by two comedy guests, will look through the funniest social media posts relating to a range of set topics, from family and friends to dogs and the Scottish diet.

The one-off Get Rich or Try Dying (working title) for BBC Four will look at the legacy estate industry via some of the biggest names in pop who are no longer with us. Hosted by Radio 2 presenter Ana Matronic, from the band Scissor Sisters, the documentary will look at what happens to pop stars and their estates when they die. Using a combination of interview, archive and investigation, Get Rich or Try Dying will peel back the complicated mechanics of the entertainment industry when it attempts to deal with the business of the afterlife.

Paul Murray, executive producer for Mentorn Scotland on all three titles, commented: “I’m really proud of all these projects; Cook-Off is a really innovative format that is both entertaining and surprising, Clare is a brilliant host and the cooking is bonkers at times, but also really inspiring. Bad Influencer is a cheeky take on the world around us and how we interact with it, and Get Rich is a fascinating insight into a part of the pop industry that most people will not have given much thought to, but is actually worth multi-millions.”