In the Emmy competition for outstanding competition reality TV show, each series enters a single episode. That, as succinctly discussed here, is perhaps the primary reasons for The Amazing Race‘s long-time domination. But that, of course, ended this year. While the official Academy nominee list [PDF] does not mention episodes, The Los Angeles Times reported …
The seemingly impossible happened during the Emmys last night: Top Chef Las Vegas won the Emmy for best reality competition show, finally dethroning seven-time winner The Amazing Race, which has won every year since the category was created in 2003. Executive producer Dan Cutforth, who is one of Magical Elves’ two principles, accepted the award, …
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has often been accused of wooden delivery; while it’s not quite of early Big Brother Julie Chen proportions, it can be awkward. But there’s an explanation, beyond the highly rumored one: She’s a robo-host. Entertainment Weekly reports that “the reason Padma sounds so robotic when she describes the challenges is …
At long last, we know who the Top Chef Las Vegas fan favorite is: Kevin Gillespie and his very popular beard. He received $10,000 for beating fan favorite runner-up Bryan Voltaggio, and with the $45,000 that he received during quickfire challenges, third-place Kevin was rewarded for his work on the show. Both Kevin and Bryan …
Was there a lamer hour of TV on this week than the Top Chef Las Vegas reunion last night? And I say that knowing that The Sing-Off has already aired six full hours. Sweaty Andy Cohen spent most of the hour introducing clips. How did the producers know that what I really wanted to see …
On Bravo’s web site, various Top Chef Las Vegas finalists and judges discuss who they thought should have won and why Michael actually won. (No one addresses his obnoxious attitude.) In BravoTV.com’s “burning questions” feature (and by “burning,” they mean “fire in outer space,” because as one would expect from a network web site, they’re …
Although the three dominant Top Chef Las Vegas cast members made it to the end–Kevin, Michael, and Bryan won 12 of 13 elimination challenges this season–only one could win, and it was a Voltaggio: the jerky one. The brothers were the final two, and somehow, Bryan didn’t win $125,000 for his “stellar roster” of “well-constructed” …