Dinner for Five (Staffel 3)

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.

Gina Gershon, Dennis Farina, Ron Livingston, Faizon Love (Folge 1)
Sendedatum: 2004-04-09
Laufzeit: 30 min
Kevin James, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Lewis, Burt Reynolds (Folge 2)
Sendedatum: 2004-04-16
Laufzeit: 30 min
Kevin Smith, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Stephen Root (Folge 3)
Sendedatum: 2004-04-23
Laufzeit: 30 min
Joe Mantegna, Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean, Jeff Garlin (Folge 4)
Sendedatum: 2004-04-30
Laufzeit: 30 min
Jeff Ross, Hector Elizando, Kevin Pollak, Laura Kightlinger (Folge 5)
Sendedatum: 2004-05-07
Laufzeit: 30 min
Laura Dern, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ernie Hudson (Folge 6)
Sendedatum: 2004-05-14
Laufzeit: 30 min
Jennifer Esposito, Barry Pepper, Luis Guzman, Stephen Dorff (Folge 7)
Sendedatum: 2004-05-21
Laufzeit: 30 min
Alec Baldwin, Peter Dinklage, Carrie Fisher, Tracey Ullman (Folge 8)
Sendedatum: 2004-05-28
Laufzeit: 30 min
Dom DeLuise, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Charles Nelson Reilly (Folge 9)
Sendedatum: 2004-06-04
Laufzeit: 30 min
John Waters, Colin Quinn, Danny Aiello, Delroy Lindo (Folge 10)
Sendedatum: 2004-06-11
Laufzeit: 30 min
Isaac Mizrahi, Alan Cumming, Faizon Love, Amy Irving (Folge 11)
Sendedatum: 2004-06-18
Laufzeit: 30 min
David Cross, Molly Shannon, George Hickenlooper, Phillip Baker Hall (Folge 12)
Sendedatum: 2004-06-25
Laufzeit: 30 min
Michael Madsen, Richard Donner, Ray Romano, Ron Eldard (Folge 13)
Sendedatum: 2004-07-02
Laufzeit: 30 min
Neve Campbell, Henry Winkler, Dave Foley, Jeff Garlin (Folge 14)
Sendedatum: 2004-09-10
Laufzeit: 30 min
Peter Berg, Billy Bob Thornton, Brian Grazer, H.G (Buzz) Bissinger (Folge 15)
Sendedatum: 2004-10-08
Laufzeit: 30 min
Martin Scorsese (Folge 16)
Sendedatum: 2004-12-10
Laufzeit: 30 min
Übersicht: Host Jon Favreau devotes the entire program this week to a conversation with famed director Martin Scorsese.