Great American Recipe is PBS’s disappointingly bland cooking competition
PBS’s first cooking show could have been its signature reality competition. Alas, it’s bland, lacking acid and heat—and has no real identity.
PBS’s first cooking show could have been its signature reality competition. Alas, it’s bland, lacking acid and heat—and has no real identity.
PBS’s excellent series American Veterans just allows individuals to share their own stories and experiences, which are very different even though they all served in the military.
PBS announced its own new cooking competition, The Great American Recipe, which will be judged by Tiffany Derry from Top Chef and Graham Elliot from Masterchef. But it’s asking for a lot from people who want to apply for the show.
Independent Lens’s enthralling PBS documentary reality series Philly D.A. watches from inside to see what happens when someone tries to change the system.
Former Travel Channel host and current PBS host Samantha Brown says “the most important” thing TV networks can do now is “to embrace that diversity in their own programing.”
Carla Hall, Vivian Howard, Marcus Samuelsson, Eric Ripert, and other chefs watch—and comment on—episodes of Julia Child’s The French Chef in this new show. Highly recommended.
An interview with College Behind Bars director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein about their four-part series, which goes into prisons to follow students in the Bard Prison Initiative.