One year on from the start of Big Food Fight season, Channel 4’s latest recruit, Heston Blumenthal joins the line-up in January for a follow-up, the Great British Food Fight, which aims to celebrate the best of British food and explore issues around food production.

Launching on 19th January, chef Heston Blumenthal, who has three Michelin stars, sets out to transform the menu of the troubled Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants in Big Chef, Little Chef.

In Jamie Saves Our Bacon, Jamie Oliver investigates why Britain’s pig farmers are going out of business and once again aims to help us make better-informed choices about the food we eat by showing exactly how pigs live and die in order to put pork, ham and bacon on our plates.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns with Chicken, Hugh & Tesco Too to rejoin the battle with Britain’s biggest retailer, which is still reluctant to join his free range chicken revolution. Now Hugh is a shareholder, can he get the supermarket to change its ways?

In Gordon’s Great British Nightmare, Gordon Ramsay will be campaigning for viewers to start patronising local restaurants. He’ll also be passing on tips to restaurant owners on how best to cope with the credit crunch.