Oh! What a night - three new TV shows

The X Factor judges for 2013: Ronan Keating, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Dannii Minogue and Redfoo. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

FRANKIE Valli and the Four Seasons' hit December 1963 (Oh! What a night) should be renamed July 29, 2013. Three TV shows relaunched and a pumpkin recipe for the worst cook in the world.

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The X Factor, Channel 7, 7.30pm 3 stars

The X Factor judges for 2013: Ronan Keating, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Dannii Minogue and Redfoo. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

Don't be alarmed when you don't see Natalie Bassingthwaighte at the first audition. It's probably not because Channel 7 couldn't get her last name right and it's up there on the screen in ENORMOUS LETTERS spelt incorrectly. It'll be fixed up by the time you watch the show tonight. Hopefully. Not that the first audition is the first audition. Who knows what they had to sit through before they got to Jai. Jai's 14, looks about 10, and is like Justin Bieber back when he could urinate in public without anyone caring. Or I assume they sound the same, I don't actually know. But everyone goes mental when he starts singing, even though if I was running X Factor I wouldn't have opened the show with a show stopper. Still. Jai makes Redfoo cry "for real" and he's going through something "right now" in a relationship and he wished he could show his song to her. Is Redfoo talking about his girlfriend Victoria Azarenko the tennis player? Or someone else? The missing judge Natalie BASSINGTHWAIGHTE? Someone he made up while Jai was singing? Jai's also enough to make Ronan Keating stand on top of the desk. One of you keep count how many times this happens in the course of the series will you? It looks like showboating in front of the big new American judge. And how is Redfoo, you'll be wondering. A hundred times better than Mel B. (Who?) And also Ronan Keating, as it happens, who is described by Simon Cowell, in a prerecorded assessment at the start as having a "record industry brain" - completely idiotic - and who later asks a sweet girl from Brisbane who is clearly about to give us a Susan Boyle moment where she's from. She's just told us she's from Brisbane, but Ronan asks her again in the same way Pauline Hanson used to ask people where they were from. It's fairly unattractive. Nobody asks him where he's from. But Ronan's also someone who says 120 per cent.

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Big Brother, Channel 9, 7pm 3 stars

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Sonia Kruger, host of . Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

Nothing much to tell you. I mean, I'd hate to ruin your night. You've seen the ads? Where they're doing the hands like they're in Under the Dome? That's probably where they got the idea for their big twist. Either there or from one of the other Big Brothers around the world. It's not just boring people sitting in a house. Would we have just watched that? Sure. Some of us. Are you going to be more inclined to watch it once you know they're involved in something more….let's say experimental? It's not that different from last year, don't get too worked up. There's always a certain amount of deprivation involved going into the Big Brother house. For them and for us. I don't know if we're really going to be satisfied with this show until someone dies. How far off is that, would you say? A cat died on Bondi Vet on Saturday, close-up shot, 7.30 at night, someone's domestic companion. You join the dots. Nine's running Big Brother wall-to-wall this year, having discovered - the hard way - the formula for a successful show. Of course there is also the view, discovered by married people, that the more time you spend with people the more you grow tired of them, until you'd do anything to not have to see them EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

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Please Marry My Boy , Channel 7, 9pm 2 and a half stars

Doreen Secomb and her son Nathan appear on . Source: Supplied

Nathan models, his mother is saying, so he mixes with people "who are like that.'' Like what Doreen? Up themselves. Doreen is a Christian who has issues with girls who don't dress "respectfully." Marriage is vitally important to her. Which is why she needs to know if Yvette's bosoms, the first girl her son Nathan is hot for, are real. Yvette, however, is also a Christian. Or she is for the purposes of Nathan's mother. Nathan can't believe his luck. A Christian with implants. Tick and tick. Brad is the baby. Or this is how his mother refers to him. Yes, I can't believe he has a problem with girls either. He says he can sell a girl a tent but he can't get her phone number. He works in a camping store. Girls - think back, the last time you bought a tent was…? Margaret, his mother, is lethal. She asks one girl "and have we had many boyfriends before?" in a tone of voice I haven't heard since I watched The Tudors. The third guy is Carlo, who's 41 and dying to have kids. Less interested in the wife bit. If only it was legal to marry your mother, right guys?

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Tell me what you think of tonight's show? dianne.butler@news.com.au

Tonight's quick and easy meal with Jana Frawley, National Food Editor

Step away from the tin opener, because even if you're the worst cook in the world you should be able to make a decent pumpkin soup and never have to resort to the mass-produced stuff again.

All it takes is a little maths (cue the weighing and measuring of ingredients), some chopping (sharp knives are essential all the time but particularly so when cutting pumpkin), and the cooking time (most of which is done while you're off tending to other household activities).

Then comes the great equalisers: the addition of cream (hooray!) and the blending everything together which hides any dodgy inconsistent chopping you've done. Finish with a professional flourish - coriander leaves sprinkled on top at the end - and no one ever need know you can't cook.

Moroccan carrot and coriander soup. Picture: Andrew Young Source: Supplied

Moroccan carrot and pumpkin soup

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Skills: Basic

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 large brown onion, coarsely chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed

2 teaspoons ground coriander

1 teaspoons ground cumin

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon sweet paprika

4 carrots, peeled, coarsely chopped

400g pumpkin, peeled, seeded

1 litre (4 cups) chicken or vegetable stock

1 tablespoon honey

250ml cream

Coriander leaves, to serve

1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring, for 5 minute or until onion softens. Add the coriander, cumin, cinnamon and paprika and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until aromatic.

Add the carrot, pumpkin and chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes or until carrot is very tender. Remove from heat.

Transfer carrot mixture to the jug of a blender and blend until smooth (alternatively, use a stick blender and blend in the pot). Return to the saucepan and add the honey and two-thirds of the cream. Place over low heat and cook for 2-3 minutes or until heated through. Taste and season with salt and pepper and extra honey, if desired.

Ladle among serving bowls. Add remaining cream and top with coriander leaves to serve.

Photography by Andrew Young

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