Reality TV production designer Scott Storey shares behind-the-scenes details about his designs of two of cable TV’s most well-known reality competitions.
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Cake Boss is coming back, but Buddy Valastro will be on a new network
Buddy Valastro’s Cake Boss is returning, but not on either TLC or Food Network.
Buddy vs. Duff is such a weird show
Food Network brought together its own Duff Goldman and TLC’s Buddy Valastro for a competition that isn’t doing either of them any favors.
Invite Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge into your home, especially for Carla Hall, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Giada De Laurentiis
Food Network’s three-episode competition was an unexpected surprise.
Why Food Network—and Discovery networks—choose entertainment over information
I explored the difference between Food Network and Netflix food reality TV—and got some candid insight into how Food Network and Discovery networks view their reality TV programs.
Food Network host’s racist jokes surface after he argues ‘straight white male’ is a racial slur
The star of Food Network’s series Ginormous Food’s argument that “straight white male” is now a racial slur resulted in people on Twitter surfacing past tweets, which included mocking references to stereotypes about black people and Asian people.
HGTV = 766 hours of new TV this year. Food Network and ID = 650 hours each. Discovery = 448 hours
Discovery’s networks will produce 8,000 hours of original TV this year. Here’s how that breaks down for six of its channels.
Guy’s Big Project is Food Network’s most interesting new show in years
Guy’s Big Project, which stars Guy Fieri as he tests, mentors, and narrows a group of contestants who want their own food travel show like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, gets closer to being human than any show I’ve seen on Food Network in years.
These 50 HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel shows are leaving Netflix
Netflix won’t have shows from Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, or Cooking Channel next year. Here’s a list of what will be gone soon.
Camp Cutthroat’s “secret” filming location was used by this Fox show
At the start of the Cutthroat Kitchen spinoff Camp Cutthroat, Alton Brown, wearing a red beret and shorts, stood in front of the first three returning chefs. “You cutthroat veterans are some of the first outsiders to set feet inside those gates,” he told them. That was not quite true, because those gates previously belonged to… continue reading
The one good thing on the Shark Tank rip-off Food Fortunes
The Shark Tank knock-off that debuted earlier this month, Food Fortunes, is as weak as most Food Network reality shows are lately: an unoriginal idea that’s been weakly executed. I love food shows and I love Shark Tank, so I would have loved for this to be the best of both. Instead, you can see the lack of imagination all over… continue reading
Why Marc Summers hid leukemia for five years
Marc Summers, the host of Unwrapped and executive producer of Restaurant: Impossible, revealed yesterday that he’s been battling leukemia for the past five years. He said that now, “I’m in remission … and I’m ready to move on. The former Double Dare host discussed this on Philadelphia’s Preston and Steve radio show, surprising even one of the… continue reading
Guy Fieri’s horrifying SUV fight dismissed as “messing around”
Next Food Network Star winner, Guy vs. Rachael star, and Food Network personality Guy Fieri got in a horrifying fight Saturday with the person responsible for his hair. Cue the obvious jokes. The fight was filmed at the San Francisco International Airport by someone in another vehicle, and shows Guy’s hair stylist, Ariel Ramirez, is… continue reading
Proof Restaurant Stakeout uses actors to play servers
There isn’t really a need to prove that Food Network’s awful reality series Restaurant Stakeout is a fraud: it oozes inauthenticity in every frame, and people featured on the show have described how fake it is. But here is hard evidence of its fakeness: a casting notice “seeking male or female to play waiter at… continue reading
Next Iron Chef going all-stars; Chopped will leave its studio; Margaret Cho hosts dinner parties
Food Network announced a bunch of new and returning shows for the next year, including confirming changes to Food Network Star (the show is adding mentors and tribes) and revealing that season four of Next Iron Chef will be an all-star season, bringing back previous contestants of the same series. That makes sense, because its… continue reading