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Who cheats on Chopped? Coolio does.
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iastudent posted:When and why did cake lady get her own show? It's actually a series they've brought over from Cooking Channel, probably seeing how it does and if it is worth ordering more shows. They've done it with a few shows from Cooking Channel, that donut competition show was from there also. Their new strategy seems to be trying shows for three episodes rather than a traditional single pilot or a regular short season order, and seeing if anything sticks. In other new show news they are now running ads for 'Kitchen Casino' yet ANOTHER Chopped format show, with the twist being this time they have casino game challenges that win them various advantages, and the cooking area spins around to mix up what dishes they are cooking.
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Red Warrior posted:In other new show news they are now running ads for 'Kitchen Casino' yet ANOTHER Chopped format show, with the twist being this time they have casino game challenges that win them various advantages, and the cooking area spins around to mix up what dishes they are cooking. The Food Network approach to development is sort of cute, a Zynga sort of "this formula worked, do it again and again" deal. Surely saturating the market with cooking competition shows won't lead to any sort of fatigue!
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Inflate the bubble until it bursts, adjust strategies, then fire everyone and sell the network if all else fails. In the end, shareholders and executives actually lose very little if anything at all. The production companies are the ones who get completely screwed.
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Jim Stacy of PBS fame via Get Delicious, the good kind at that when they actually air the show rather properly as opposed to a damned scheduling nightmare akin to a damned colander being subbed in as a sieve as per what happened with Mind of a Chef despite Bourdain's involvement, actually has a new series call Offbeat Eats heading to Cooking Channel come 4/3 I think that is probably going to be something like DDD---save that it is Jim Stacy so that it will be nothing like DDD and thus likely superior.
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Red Warrior posted:In other new show news they are now running ads for 'Kitchen Casino' yet ANOTHER Chopped format show, with the twist being this time they have casino game challenges that win them various advantages, and the cooking area spins around to mix up what dishes they are cooking. This is premiering tonight I believe.
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Next year come April Fools they should combine Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen, this Casino thing and whatever other Chopped ripoffs they've got into one big clusterfuck of a show.
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Red Warrior posted:It's actually a series they've brought over from Cooking Channel, probably seeing how it does and if it is worth ordering more shows. They've done it with a few shows from Cooking Channel, that donut competition show was from there also. Their new strategy seems to be trying shows for three episodes rather than a traditional single pilot or a regular short season order, and seeing if anything sticks. This show is on now, it makes me sad.
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I made the mistake of tuning in to Food Network last night and caught the new Kitchen Caisno show. The first and third rounds are fairly tame, but the second round is perhaps the dumbest challenge idea any of these Chopped-Style shows have had. They mix up the dishes any number of times but the kicker is that you're only judged on your final dish and not on what you did for any of the other dishes. This inevitably lead to who was perhaps the strongest competitor getting kicked off because she did great work on the first two dishes Then she got the dish that was a combination of the other two competitors and it was a mess that she couldn't do anything with. Also the whole roulette wheel spinning is just for show because at that point they have 3 cooks at 4 stations. If they actually rotated the stations someone would be left without a station. I also saw commercials for some new show called rewrapped or something where the contestants try to recreate snack foods in a Chopped Style elimination. Because obviously there is no greater calling for a chef than figuring out the exact recipe for Funyuns. Afterwards they had an episode of Mystery Diners which I left on because the owner was mad about fat trimmings disappearing. This lead to the phrase "my valuable fat trimmings' being uttered more times than I could ever imagine.
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dude789 posted:I also saw commercials for some new show called rewrapped or something where the contestants try to recreate snack foods in a Chopped Style elimination. Because obviously there is no greater calling for a chef than figuring out the exact recipe for Funyuns. And don't forget, it's being hosted by Joey Fatone!
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'Best Cooks in America' was on Sunday night as well. Seems like a Taste rip-off, Michael Symon, Alex Guarneschelli, Cat Cora and Tyler Florence mentoring teams of four, with Ted Allen hosting. Except they cut HALF of the competitors in the first episode, so it's down to just 8 competitors. I guess they are scared of it being a flop and decided to make a short probably five episode season, although it follows the pattern of special Chopped events being five episodes. The first episode was so rushed because of that I don't really even know how the show is going to be, presumably it will settle down a bit for the next few episodes and they probably cut two people a week. It's not like the chefs actually got to mentor anyone, it boiled down to 'cook a meal with this ingredient' six minutes of frantically edited cooking, then 'ok you are cut, you are safe, this is the most difficult decision ever, ok you are cut also and you are safe'. One guy plated a duck breast that was pretty much raw, so I don't know where they were getting these 'Best Cooks' from to start with. I caught about five minutes of Kitchen Casino, it was terrible.
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dude789 posted:They mix up the dishes any number of times but the kicker is that you're only judged on your final dish and not on what you did for any of the other dishes. This inevitably lead to who was perhaps the strongest competitor getting kicked off because she did great work on the first two dishes Then she got the dish that was a combination of the other two competitors and it was a mess that she couldn't do anything with. Also the whole roulette wheel spinning is just for show because at that point they have 3 cooks at 4 stations. Yeah, the wheel obviously doesn't mean anything since it's rigged to go a certain way. It really wasn't a lot of fun to watch. I only half paid attention to Best Cooks but it seemed pretty silly, too.
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Best Cooks is endearing but just so boring. Oh and any doubt that Mystery Diners is a complete fabrication is gone after seeing this business I'm watching right now with an inhumanly creepy mascot named Zippy the Burger Boy. There is not one credible part of this entire thing and the "employees" are pulling faces like only starving actors do.
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Is it me or has Anne Burrell been getting progressively bitchier? That episode of Best Cooks she was on reminded me of Jenna from 30 Rock was judging the children singing on stage. It was the comments she makes to chefs all the time, but it felt meaner at least in part because the contestants aren't chefs. She seemed meaner than usual on this season of Worst Cooks too.
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Wasn't there some drama surrounding her in real life around the time some of this might have been filmed?
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ToastyPotato posted:Wasn't there some drama surrounding her in real life around the time some of this might have been filmed? She's a big bull dyke, so yeah she has some anger issues. She was sexually harassing employees though.
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Caught an EP of this at my parents. Not even a remotely enjoyable show.
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The promos for tonight's Cutthroat Kitchen must have completely flown over my head, because I had no clue Geoffrey and They brought back the mini kitchen, too. I laughed heartily at that. Miss Kalle fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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dude789 posted:I also saw commercials for some new show called rewrapped or something where the contestants try to recreate snack foods in a Chopped Style elimination. Because obviously there is no greater calling for a chef than figuring out the exact recipe for Funyuns. The best part is the price, you win a year's supply of whatever crappy snack food they were recreating. I like Goldfish, it's seriously probably my favorite lovely snack food but a year's supply? Is that like one of those giant boxes they sell at Sam's and a Tupperware container?
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Three Olives posted:The best part is the price, you win a year's supply of whatever crappy snack food they were recreating. I like Goldfish, it's seriously probably my favorite lovely snack food but a year's supply? Is that like one of those giant boxes they sell at Sam's and a Tupperware container? Typically when a company offers a years supply it amounts to a coupon for one free. I have seen some where it was set up so you got 1 item free for a week and the other was 52 coupons that gave you a free X. YMMV
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Vicodiva posted:"Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse and its owner, Food Network Celebrity Willie Degel, will pay $900,000 to settle a wage theft lawsuit filed against its restaurants located in Bayside, Queens and Midtown, New York City." It looks like the restaurant stakeouter has become the restaurant stakeoutee.
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Vicodiva posted:"Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse and its owner, Food Network Celebrity Willie Degel, will pay $900,000 to settle a wage theft lawsuit filed against its restaurants located in Bayside, Queens and Midtown, New York City." but you see the whole industry is like that so you can't fault the guy who has a show revolving around making sure people in the business aren't being cheated
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Three Olives posted:The best part is the price, you win a year's supply of whatever crappy snack food they were recreating. I like Goldfish, it's seriously probably my favorite lovely snack food but a year's supply? Is that like one of those giant boxes they sell at Sam's and a Tupperware container? Donatos, a Columbus-based pizza place is running a contest for "free pizza for life!" Which in the fine print it states a one-topping large pizza, 2 a month, plus 2 two liters. Next time I ever have a complaint and order more than 3 large pizzas a month--it happens often--I am going to ask to be directly connected to the CEO because I must be their greatest customer ever. Because free pizzas for life is only 2 a month! and I've shattered that. Oh, you mean it is more like "we are going to give you some free pizzas, for a while, and limited, but don't tell the marketers!" I bet it isn't even a loving Sam's club jar. They get to define a years worth and get all the publicity that entails.
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I'm considering starting my own Chopped-style cooking challenge show called "Don't Burn the Pine Nuts" Four "chefs" come together, share their lovely life stories, then compete to see who can successfully toast a pan of pine nuts without setting the kitchen on fire. In the rare case more than one of them can actually pull it off, there will be a tiebreaker desert round where they will be given a loaf of bread and the winner will be whoever makes anything besides a bread pudding or french toast.
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The parents who are inevitably disappointed in their child's career choice should be forced to sit-in and watch their children make a lovely arugula salad, overcook/undercooked protein, and glop in a bowl with a crumb topping. The losers can all cry as their parents are let down again. The winner can say "gently caress you, dad."
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JD Bucks 7 posted:Donatos, a Columbus-based pizza place is running a contest for "free pizza for life!" Which in the fine print it states a one-topping large pizza, 2 a month, plus 2 two liters. Next time I ever have a complaint and order more than 3 large pizzas a month--it happens often--I am going to ask to be directly connected to the CEO because I must be their greatest customer ever. Because free pizzas for life is only 2 a month! and I've shattered that. I've been seeing this ad but I'm so burnt out on Donato's that I could puke. The Big Don is still pretty drat good, though. When I was a kid my best friend's family went on some game show and lost, and their consolation prize was a one-year supply of Life cereal, and they took home an entire shrinkwrapped pallet of boxes of it. They decided they were going to try to eat it all before the year was up, and sue the game show. For the life of me, I can't remember what game show it was. Anyway, every time I went there we had to all eat 2 bowls of it for breakfast, and his mom would crush it up and mix it into meatloaf and everything else. Steve had boy-boobs and his dad walked around in his tighty whities full time. They had 7 boys, and were determined to keep trying til they got a girl. When I was friends with him, his mom was pregnant with another boy. I could tell stories about Steve's house all day. Surprised that no-one's talking about Lenny winning FNS, and the consequent discovery of all his "offensive" youtube videos. Also, Bob Tuschman has had a stroke, right?
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I actually saw Damaris's show on the other day in a time slot that wasn't crazy early on a Saturday morning. She was making New Orleans themed food and it look really good. Haven't been able to find it since though. Edit:Did a bit of research, apparently she was given 6 episodes for season 1 and I guess she was popular enough to get a 13 episode season two which finished up a while back. New episodes were shown on Sunday at 10/9c (surprise) with reruns currently being shown on Wednesday late afternoons (I think at 5:30/4:30c). buddychrist10 fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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Has anyone else made the mistake of watching that Rachael vs. Guy kids show? It's like they're actively attempting to create the most annoying show possible, with the two most annoying people on Food Network hosting and a bunch of annoying children as contestants.
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criscodisco posted:Surprised that no-one's talking about Lenny winning FNS, and the consequent discovery of all his "offensive" youtube videos. In the final scene after Lenny won and everyone was congratulating and hand-shaking, Alton was very obviously NOT happy with America's choice. I don't know if it's because he knows about his online antics, or if it's because he knows Lenny is an obnoxious idiot with a cowboy gimmick who has no business thinking he can carry a show on his own. My guess is The Lenny Bullshit Cowboy Show will never see the light of day. The reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHDsjRP_4k You can see Alton approach Luca with gestures that convey his bewilderment and disappointment, and then he very halfheartedly shakes Lenny's hand before he turns and walks away with a completely disgusted look on his face. I don't know, maybe I'm just projecting. Marley Wants More fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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poo poo...that loving cowboy rear end in a top hat won? I never watch FNS but I flipped by and saw about two minutes of that guy and he was so unbelievably obnoxious that it was unbearable to watch.
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"The old gods are dead." - Leonard "Cowboy Lenny" McNabb
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SHUPS 4 DETH posted:"The old gods are dead." - Leonard "Cowboy Lenny" McNabb If food networks schedule is anything to go by, his show is going to get lost in the sea of Pioneer Woman reruns so no real harm done.
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If its like every other winner, the most he can hope for is to tour American's poo poo hole restaurants on the Cooking Channel for a couple episodes.
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There's 2 seasons of DONUT SHOWDOWN http://www.foodnetwork.ca/shows/donut-showdown/ quote:The 30-minute competition show brings three of the best bakers head-to-head-to-head to test their creativity and donut skills. e: cucumber slaw is featuring heavily in the BBQ rib chinatown donut
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