Dinner for Five - Season 2
Dinner for Five is a television program in which actor/filmmaker Jon Favreau and a revolving guest list of celebrities eat, drink and talk about life on and off the set and swap stories about projects past and present. The program seats screen legends next to a variety of personalities from film, television, music and comedy, resulting in an unpredictable free-for-all. The program aired on the Independent Film Channel with Favreau the co-Executive Producer with Peter Billingsley.
The show format is a spontaneous, open forum for people in the entertainment community. The idea, originally conceived by Favreau, originated from a time when he went out to dinner with colleagues on a film location and exchanged filming anecdotes. Favreau said, "I thought it would be interesting to show people that side of the business". He did not want to present them in a "sensationalized way [that] they're presented in the press, but as normal people". The format featured Favreau and four guests from the entertainment industry in a restaurant with no other diners. They ordered actual food from real menus and were served by authentic waiters. There were no cue cards or previous research on the participants that would have allowed him to orchestrate the conversation and the guests were allowed to talk about whatever they wanted. The show used five cameras with the operators using long lenses so that they could be at least ten feet away from the table and not intrude on the conversation or make the guests self-conscious. The conversations lasted until the film ran out. A 25-minutes episode would be edited from the two-hour dinner.
Year: 2008
Country:
Studio: IFC
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn
Crew: Evan Shapiro (Executive Producer), Peter Billingsley (Producer), Alison Palmer Bourke (Executive Producer), Lisa Tauger (Producer), Jon Favreau (Executive Producer), Chris Donovan (Producer)
First Air Date: Jul 06, 2001
Last Air date: Feb 01, 2008
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 50 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 11.00 users
Popularity: 3.284
Language: English
Keyword : celebrity
Episode
Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Kevin Smith
Dom Deluise, Peter Falk, John Herzfeld, Richard Lewis
Peter Bogdanovich, Larry Miller, Penelope Ann Miller, Liev Schreiber
Ed Asner, Ed Begley, Jr., Carrie Fisher, Blair Underwood
David Byrne, Dave Eggers, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Pantoliano
Louis C.K., Illeana Douglas, Will Ferrell, Eddie Izzard
Vince Vaughn, Cole Hauser, Rory Cochrane, Brian Cox
John Landis, David Alan Grier, Leland Orser, Fran Drescher
Beverly D'Angelo, Rosie Perez, Cathy Moriarty, Catherine Kellner
James Caan, Will Ferrell, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel
Sean Hayes, Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt
Peter Berg, Judd Apatow, Famke Janssen, Paul Rudd
Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, John Sayles, Vanessa Martinez