Delia Smith has announced her retirement from TV after more than 40 years on our screens.

Delia said she was tired of having to "entertain" and will concentrate on internet tutorials instead. She will launch the Delia Online Cookery School later this month.

She told the Daily Telegraph: "This is the future for me and the population. It's miles ahead. If you do a TV programme now, it's got to entertain.

"When I started, there was further education in the BBC; now you have to entertain. You have someone telling me I haven't got time to show this or I haven't got time to show that."

Delia said she had turned down a recent approach from the BBC which marked "the end" of "Delia on the telly".

Of her new online venture she said it was was "the best way to teach people to cook".

Do you agree with Delia; are TV programmes more about entertainment than educating us? Do you watch cooking programmes to learn how to make recipes or simply because you enjoy watching them? Let us know in the comments below.