On Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition’s premiere, Johnny Bananas made drinks for Sonja Morgan while Wells Adams whined and Dave Coulier made dad jokes. It was amazing.
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Girl Scout Cookie Championship is a mess, and Girl Scouts and their cookies deserve better
The editing and filming of Food Network’s latest baking championship is incredibly clunky and atypically amateurish.
The bizarre Buddy vs. Duff was Food Network’s top-rated show of 2019, so it’s coming back
Buddy vs. Duff, a competition between Duff Goldman and Buddy Valastro, was a disaster of a competition series, but more people watched that than anything else on Food Network all year. That’s insane.
Food Network Challenge is being revived
An early Food Network competition is returning, with its original host as a judge, and a Sharknado star as its new host.
Carl Ruiz, Guy’s Grocery Games judge and champion, has died
The chef was first featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, and later became a regular judge on Guy’s Grocery Games, which he also competed on.
RuPaul’s Drag Race and Guy’s Grocery Games: how their sets were designed
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.
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… continue reading