Reception According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the show was "highly critically acclaimed for its high production values, its comic-drama scripts, and its lead performances. Most of all, perhaps, the series [was] a landmark programme in the sense that Henry plays a character who just happens to be black; the fact of his blackness doesn't limit the narrative or the audience the series reaches." The Region 2 DVDs have been available since 2 October 2006.… (More on Chef)