Come Dine With Me Genre Cooking Directed by Various Narrated by Dave Lamb Theme music composer Patrick Duffin Nick Crofts Country of origin United Kingdom Original language (s) English No. of series 41 No. of episodes 1,647 Production Executive producer (s) David Sayer Producer (s) Martin Dance Running time 30 minutes (Daytime) 60 minutes (Primetime) Production company (s) ITV Studios (LWT) Shiver Productions Distributor Channel 4 ITV Studios Release Original network Channel 4 Picture format 576i 16: 9 (SDTV) (2005 -- 2008) 1080i 16: 9 (HDTV) (2008 -- present) Audio format Stereo (2005 - 08) Dolby Digital 5.1 (2008 -- present) Original release 10 January 2005 (2005 - 01 - 10) -- present Chronology Related shows Come Date with Me External links Website www.channel4.com/programmes/come-dine-with-me
when did come dine with me first start
10 January 2005