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iastudent posted:Finished watching Parts Unknown, classic Bourdain all the way through. Hopefully it'll do well enough on CNN. I'm actually OK with this, as it reminded me while watching it live how drat catchy the CNNi Regional Weather Forecast music is---probably my new favorite thing about Bourdain's new home aside from the hopeful prospect of no censorship and no incredibly bad ads for bad shows that Travel always littered him with.
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criscodisco posted:My partner and I could have both sworn we saw an ad a week or so ago for the new season of Food Network Star starting this weekend, but I can't find any info for the new season online other than an application for this season on their website. Are we losing our minds? Food Network Star usually starts in July or so, unless they decide not to do Next Iron Chef, in which case it will be on around September / October.
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criscodisco posted:My partner and I could have both sworn we saw an ad a week or so ago for the new season of Food Network Star starting this weekend, but I can't find any info for the new season online other than an application for this season on their website. Are we losing our minds? I haven't seen an ad for it yet, but I didn't watch much last weekend. I did watch parts unknown and agree that it looked better production-wise.
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iastudent posted:I know there's a lot about Man vs. Food to complain about, but the Melt grilled cheese challenge I'm sure exists only to force people into developing lactose intolerance. I've been there so many times, and everything on their menu is absurdly delicious. I'd still never do that. Also, I'm really impressed by Parts Unknown - it's kind of astonishing that a food tourism show has turned into arguably the best human interest show on television. I wish there were more like it, it pains me to see MSNBC air eight hours of prison documentaries on weekends when they could make a show like this instead. Even Current TV did it with Vanguard, which is more journalism-y but had a similar feel to it.
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Apr 17, 2013 06:34
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I wonder what the pacing will ultimately be for Parts Unknown...the list they have up on the CNN page for it is rather short.
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Apr 17, 2013 13:48
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So I was reading the Grantland recaps of Worst Cooks in America and at one point I decided to see what the comments were and it turns out a bunch of the shows contestants read the columns and left their own comments and it's kind of amazing.
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Apr 18, 2013 17:42
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I'm five minutes late turning Chopped on and Scott Conant is cutting up a red onion. What loving bizzaro world did I tune into?
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Apr 22, 2013 02:09
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Anthony Bourdain is eating at a Sizzler
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Apr 22, 2013 02:21
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It feels like Chopped's soundtrack gets more ridiculously melodramatic with each episode.
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Apr 22, 2013 02:45
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Y Kant Ozma Post posted:Anthony Bourdain is eating at a Sizzler "How do you like the [cheesy garlic] bread?" "It's delicious. I could see why this would be something of a wonderland." This is quickly becoming my favorite hour of television every week. Robviously posted:I'm five minutes late turning Chopped on and Scott Conant is cutting up a red onion. What loving bizzaro world did I tune into? And then he didn't get them on the plate! This was the most fun I've had watching Chopped, ever. I wasn't even disappointed when Freitag didn't win which is rare for me. SHVPS4DETH fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Apr 22, 2013 |
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Apr 22, 2013 12:12
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Food Network announced their new slate of shows for the next year. We have a wide variety of terrible future shows. We have a wide variety of "Win your own restaurant/Stop loving up your restaurant" shows! quote:Giving You the Business We have some dumb competition shows! quote:Chef Roulette And we have some pointless reality shows about people vaguely related to food! quote:Bubba’s Grills Gone Wild All in all a great slate of shows that prove that Food Network is circling the drain! 2013 is the year of the "gently caress you, Food Network!"
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Apr 23, 2013 21:06
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Jesus, I thought Giving You the Business looked bad but it just gets worse. At least that one was a semi original idea rather than being a ripoff of Undercover Boss or Bar Rescue. Also I like how someone literally said "let's do Throwdown again but in reverse!" and then thye actually thought that was a good enough idea to make into a show. I will say that Chef Marks the Spot is so stupid that I'll probably watch it though. Same with Cutthroat Kitchen.
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Good God, there is nothing even vaguely interesting among those shows. Bar Rescue ripoff, numerous variations on the Chopped theme and a riff on Tanked. And a name like Cutthroat Kitchen just isn't even trying anymore. Why not just call it Manufactured Drama and be done with it?
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Apr 23, 2013 21:49
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Apr 23, 2013 22:11
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quote:Grocery Games All they had to do was remake Supermarket Sweep. THAT WAS ALL THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO DO. People would have liked that. I would have liked that. How do you screw up so badly?
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Apr 23, 2013 22:14
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I was really, really hoping I had dreamed that Food Court Wars pilot I caught a couple months back.  It was so terrible, and not even in a trainwreck kind of way. In a "this is a really dumb and boring idea for a show" way. In a "Tyler Florence is on this show" way.I miss shows about food and cooking on the Food Network. The ones with the good food and where they actually taught you things, like 5 Ingredient Fix, and Ask Aida, and Good Eats. They got rid of Claire and Aida, and Alton Brown is worse off than a game show host, and now I learn nothing and all the food shown on the channel is poo poo.
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Apr 23, 2013 22:15
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They are making a whole show based around the format of a Hells Kitchen finale but in a "real restaurant?"
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Jamesman posted:I was really, really hoping I had dreamed that Food Court Wars pilot I caught a couple months back. Consider that their 3 most popular personalities are Rachel Ray, Guy Fieri, and Paula Dean. Is there any real surprise that good food has fallen completely off of the channel?
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Let me just rant here for a bit. A couple weeks back, I was grocery shopping, and they had coconuts. I decided, gently caress it, I'm gonna buy a coconut. I don't know if I'll do anything with a coconut, but it's $1.50 and I felt like spending $1.50 on a loving coconut so gently caress you. Then I decided to figure out what I would do with that coconut. You know what my instinct was? Go to YouTube and type in "Good Eats Coconut." Right there I got a clip from Good Eats that told me the best way to break into that coconut to get the water out, to crack the husk, and to peel the meat. Super loving easy, and I made that coconut my bitch. drat good coconut. So now, I want you to go to Food Network's site, and see if you can find somewhere (besides Alton Brown's recipes) that tells you what to do with a fresh coconut. You'll find plenty of coconut-related recipes though, and they just tell you to get pre-shredded coconut. Well if you're not gonna teach me how to do something AND you're not going to save me money by having me use fresh ingredients, I might as well not learn how to make the drat recipe either! I'll just buy pre-made coconut cakes. How easy is THAT, Barefoot Contessa? Maybe I'm wrong, and that information can be found, but I couldn't find it in 10 minutes on the site. Hell, I couldn't even find it at all until it dawned on me to actively narrow my search to Alton Brown's recipes just to see if it was there. Jamesman fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Apr 23, 2013 22:43
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The problem really is that the cooking shows just aren't that popular and the only cooking shows that get any people watching them at all are watched by people trying to cook the easiest thing possible rather than something that requires effort. I mean it sucks that cooking shows are only on during the day on Food Network, and most of the ones there suck but I think that really is because no one is watching them. Not that these new shows look like they're going to get many people to watch them either... At this point Food Network are trying to justify just not showing DDD and Chopped all the time and so far they haven't found any shows to stop them from doing this.
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Apr 23, 2013 22:50
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Oh God...that list...the pain. Not one single legit "food show" in the lot---I must again place my hopes of Cooking Channel/Travel/PBS(A). I mean, I know original programming is "hard", but couldn't they at least have the decency to grab some additional yet unaired stateside things from the BBC and whatnot? There's tons of stuff out there beyond this drek and them trying to bring every Evil Alton Brown fan fiction to life!
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Apr 23, 2013 23:29
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It's a good thing there are tons and tons of failing restaurants, otherwise maybe food network would have to work to come up with some original ideas for programming
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I looked this up recently for something else but Irvine has a surprisingly okay track record on Restaurant Impossible, especially when compared to Ramsay
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Oh God...that list...the pain. Not one single legit "food show" in the lot---I must again place my hopes of Cooking Channel/Travel/PBS(A). I'm guessing they've not bought any UK shows because the BBC in particular make series that are only 6 episodes long, so you've gotta change what you're showing every month and a half. I guess also you've gotta pay for them, which might be more expensive than having nine versions of the same show that last 4 times as long.
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quote:After opening his own consulting business and overseeing bar and club openings in seven countries, it’s safe to say that John Green knows bars. As an avid reader of young adult, this was super confusing to me! I'm sad there's not more challenge shows coming up. Sorry folks, I can't get enough cake and cupcake and sugar and so forth competitions.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:All they had to do was remake Supermarket Sweep. THAT WAS ALL THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO DO. People would have liked that. I would have liked that. How do you screw up so badly? As someone who avidly watched Supermarket Sweep all the time on Lifetime as a kid, hell yes I would have liked that. This just seems both lame and confusing all at the same time. I'm just irritated at the glut of restaurant-based competitions over everything else because this means there'll probably never be any new Sweet Genius episodes.  Out of the mountains of challenge shows, that has been one I have legitimately enjoyed.
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Do they seriously have a Bar Rescue ripoff in that lineup?  Also yes, throw me on the not-Supermarket Sweep bandwagon.
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Seriously, how many different variations on Chopped can they do? At least Chopped is fairly original (even if it's becoming more and more overwrought as it goes on) and Sweet Genius embraces how over the top it is. Do they really more? Oh it's Chopped in a supermarket. Oh it's Chopped in Times Square. There's more to food tv than that.
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Christopher Irvine posted:"How do you like the [cheesy garlic] bread?" "It's delicious. I could see why this would be something of a wonderland." I thought that episode of was bad and Bourdain used it as a 20 minute commercial for his book publishing star Roy Choi and his Kogi empire. It really didn't touch on the subject of the conflict between Koreans and African Americans. It wasn't a matter of the riots, but a situation that happened around the same time of the police beatings where a Korean shop owner in South Central shot and killed a young black girl when she thought she was stealing an under two buck container of Orange Juice and later was given the light sentence of 5 years probation. In any case, Sizzler's, really? Jollibee? I know Bourdain gets this in every episode, but there was so many better options to highlight. The area of K-town is up at all hours and he didn't even gloss on the subject of the after hours action going on there. Really was a waste of an episode and would be like Bourdain killing time in a Cracker Barrel or Waffle House. Though those places actually have better food than Sizzler.
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Whoa whoa whoa, don't say poo poo about Jollibee here.
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So this Chef Marks the Spot show is really kind of dull but it tries too hard to hide it with cheesy graphics and rapid cuts galore. This new schedule's already off to a roaring start guys!
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Miss Kalle posted:So this Chef Marks the Spot show is really kind of dull but it tries too hard to hide it with cheesy graphics and rapid cuts galore. This new schedule's already off to a roaring start guys! It really was ridiculous. Yet I couldn't help watching it. Did it really need the booming voice over the speakers to remind them of how much time they had? It literally sounded like the Jew Producers from Drawn Together.
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quote:Chef Marks the Spot So Dinner Impossible but without the budget?
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So I'm sure people have seen the commercials for the Iron Chef Tournament of Champions they're doing right? Well, if you have any interest in it whatsoever, DON'T LOOK AT THE EPISODE GUIDE FOR THE SHOW. Why? Well, the idiots who set up the site put up the final match episode description not as Tournament of Champions Final but as the chefs who are involved (i.e X vs. X). I couldn't help but laugh hysterically at it for removing just about all the tension from it. Also, it seems Top Chef alum Michael Voltaggio will battle Bobby Flay. That should be interesting.
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Boardroom Jimmy posted:So I'm sure people have seen the commercials for the Iron Chef Tournament of Champions they're doing right? Well, if you have any interest in it whatsoever, DON'T LOOK AT THE EPISODE GUIDE FOR THE SHOW. Why? Well, the idiots who set up the site put up the final match episode description not as Tournament of Champions Final but as the chefs who are involved (i.e X vs. X). I couldn't help but laugh hysterically at it for removing just about all the tension from it. Did Batali return?
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jscolon2.0 posted:Did Batali return? No, it's a pretty poor excuse for a tournament really. They didn't bring back Mario or Cat and Bobby isn't even participating in it. It goes Alex vs. Geoffrey and the winner faces Symon while Garces and Forgione winner faces Morimoto. Then the winner of those matches meet in the final, which as I said, was idiotically spoiled.
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Boardroom Jimmy posted:Bobby isn't even participating in it. Post-finale Throwdown against the winner, though, right?
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Has there been any word on a new season of Sweet Genius? The reruns are back to season one with the awkward robot lady announcer.
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iastudent posted:Has there been any word on a new season of Sweet Genius? The reruns are back to season one with the awkward robot lady announcer. I certainly hope it's coming back. It was one of the few good shows on Food Network. Also,  Extreme Tupperware Ladies.
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iastudent posted:Has there been any word on a new season of Sweet Genius? The reruns are back to season one with the awkward robot lady announcer. Just keep watching Food Network at 4am and see if it shows up there. If it doesn't, then it's not cancelled... yet.
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