Cooku with Comali
Cooku with Comali, also known by the acronym CWC, is a Tamil-language comedy-based cooking competition show aired on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+ Hotstar where the contestants are paired each week with comedians (comalis) who are amateur cooks. It premiered on 16 November 2019. The contestants along with their comalis are challenged every week and judged by Chef Damodharan and Chef Venkatesh Bhat. Production. Game format. Every week, the show starts with celebrity chefs getting paired with their "Comalis." Then the teams compete in Advantage Task 1 and Task 2. The teams then compete  in Main Task and Immunity/Elimination Task. The Advantage task involves a minimal task in which a team does a small task and the winner of the Advantage task is given an advantage during the main task where the team can choose a time frame to work without any obstacles. During the Main task, every team is a given a challenge or an obstacle that will make the cooking harder. The teams are given a specific time limit where they must cook with that time frame. Most of the cooking tasks are to be done by "Comalis." The cook that  gets Immunity is safe from next week's elimination and does not participate in that week. Some weeks are celebration rounds with no elimination. Reception. The series gained popularity only during its rerun in the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Following which the launch of the second season became one of the top rated Tamil reality television program both on television and on the digital platform Hotstar. The grand finale of season 2 aired on 14 April 2021 for 6 hours garnered a high viewership rating of 11.1 TVR in urban and 8.1 TVR overall with 6.58 million impressions. Cooku with