Dinner for Five (IFC) -- Host: Jon Favreau -- Series Thread
 

Has anyone seen this new series yet? It's hosted by Jon Favreau and airs on IFC and repeats are on Bravo.

Basically Jon Favreau has 4 guests and they all eat out at a restaurant together. The camera films their dinner conversation.

Some of the guests I've seen already were: Vince Vaughn, Cheri Oteri, Illeana Douglas, Christian Slater, Peter Falk, Jeff Goldblum, Fred Williard, and Garry Shandling.

It's been a pretty cool show so far. I liked the second one the best, with Illeana Douglas. It's kind of cool hearing actors talk about their "pet peeves" like being cut out of a film. They talked about how it will still appear on your credits at IMDB and people will say "you were great in that." Or people at parties will say "I know you.. you were great in that film--what was it called?" And they have to sit and list their credits.

Interesting show.

When does it air on Bravo? I checked TVGuide and the Bravo website and didn't see it listed on their schedule. I've been dying to see it, but I only have Bravo, not IFC. Thanks.

I caught a repeat on Bravo on Friday night, I think it was 10 or 10:30.

I think Bravo calls Friday nights "IFC Night" or something like that.

Dinner for Five (Love, Silverman, Rapaport, Burrows)
 

My TiVo grabs these all the freakin' time, and I have no clue what their schedule for new episodes/repeats is as it's different every time (sometimes I'll get the same episode 12 times in a row, sometimes 3 unique ones back-to-back).

Anyway ... tonight I saw this episode for the first time, and they really hit a lot of interesting topics. Usually, there's a moment or two of something really stand-out, and the rest is just entertainingly watching actors ******** about random stuff. But this episode seemed even better than usual. It's hard to tell which episodes air when, but if you can catch this one, I recommend it.

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Sat. July 27th 8:30/7:30C is the next air date of Episode 6.

Thanks for the heads up. I've seen 2 episodes of this so far and am dying to see Sarah Silverman on it.

Thanks for the info. Sarah's in at least two episodes that I've seen. In one, she doesn't come across too well. I cannot remember offhand who her dinner companions were, but they didn't "get" her. In this one, however, she has a couple of zingers that are hilarious, and the guests "get" it.

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I really enjoyed this one as well. Silverman's very, very entertaining, but doesn't say much. Rapaport was really vocal and kind of ran the discussion at times, but I found his dialogue with Faison Love to be really interesting. I'm a big fan of the show and can't wait for new episodes to start popping up.

Actually, they have an extremely active forum on the Web that Jon Favreau posts to constantly. A lot of folks post who basically want to get his attention rather than really discuss the show and related topics and a lot of pissiness at times, but I guess that's not unusual for Internet forums, now is it? ;)

I read somewhere there won't be any new episodes until September. My ReplayTV keeps taping these and they are all repeats.

I remember that episode was good. That Faison Love guy was hilarious.

The only episode I've seen had Marilyn Manson, Andy Dick and Daryl Hannah on it. It was pretty good. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

Dinner for Five (Thanksgiving Marathon)
 

Looks like they will be running these shows all day on IFC, that's right all 9 episodes repeating ad infinitum, or at least I can only see 9 listed on the www.dinnerforfive.com

I have only seen one of them, the one with Yoakim, Goldberg, Beals and Seth Green, and it was good.

Although what I really want to see is the michael rappaport one I love that guy, he is so awesome.

Ugh ... no new eps until Tax Day. Ad infinitum is right ... I can't count how many times I've seen those same 9 episodes.

One I thought was particularly entertaining was with David Cross, Denis Leary, Famke Janssen, and Martha Plimpton.

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My fave episode was with Sarah Silverman, Faizon Love, Michael Rappaport, and Saffron Burrows.

We always quote that one, when Faizon Love was making fun of black movie sets and Ice Cube going "Let's work on soundtrack."

When are they airing the Peter Bogdanovich episode? I saw a picture of it in EW awhile ago.

I think that link was talking about April 15, 2002-- when the first season started.

I read somewhere on the forum on that site a new episode is airing in January 2003.

Wonderful! That's much better. Would it hurt them to put a year on that date? ;)

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WOW!!!

the one with Marilyn Manson, Darryl Hannah and Andy Dick
was unbelievable.

you know it's bad when Manson is the more intelligent and well-spoken one at the table

not really, Manson is intelligent & well spoken

I loved in that episode how you could tell Daryl Hannah was pretty annoyed with all of his stripper-talk.

I don' think he came off as that intelligent in the episode.

But I was impressed with him in Bowling for Columbine.

Looks like there were actually 10 episodes and I was hoping there was one I haven't seen yet, but I'll have to wait for the next season.

I thought Manson came off as the best of that bunch, mainly because he starts talking about Bunuel etc.
But, yeah, Hannah didn't enjoy herself, complaining that they didn't really talk about independant film...

Dinner For Five new season Jan 20
 

Pretty cool lineup If I do say so myself for the 1st show.

Dinner For Five Premiere Jan 20
From an IFC press release:

The Independent Film Channel (IFC) original series DINNER FOR FIVE created and hosted by Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made, Daredevil) will premiere six new episodes beginning Monday, January 20 at 8:00PM(ET/PT).

The season opener will feature Favreau's Daredevil co-stars Ben Affleck (The Sum of All Fears), Jennifer Garner (ABC's Alias), Colin Farrell (Minority Report) and director Kevin Smith (Clerks).

DINNER FOR FIVE features Favreau and four guests sharing an evening of food and off-the-cuff conversation. Continuing the standard set in the first season, the program seats screen legends next to a variety of personalities from film, television, music and comedy, resulting in an unpredictable free-for-all.

Can't wait for more "Rudy" stories. Heh. Actually love that show, but I'm tired to the reruns. More Sarah Silverman!

Wow, the season opener should be great. I love this show. Too bad there isn't more episodes of it. Only 6 new episodes?

And more about 'Mrs. Parker' too. ;)

I notice quite a few of the shows have a guest who is totally irreverant. What if they did a show with: Adam Goldberg, David Cross, Marilyn Manson and Faizon Love? No telling where the conversation is going to go.

I love this show. Can't wait!

Is there any (official) way to watch old or new episodes of this show? I don't get IFC, but it sounds like a show I'd be interested in watching.

Not that I know of. I believe the only way to see it, is by getting the IFC Channel. Sorry. :)