After taking yet another hiatus last week, Top Chef 6 narrowed the competition to its final three contestants last night. The tragic part is that the real competition just seemed to start. The final four–Kevin Gillespie, Bryan Voltaggio, Michael Voltaggio, and Jennifer Carroll–have been the inevitable final four since the beginning. The whole penultimate episode, …
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When I saw a preview of Padma Lakshmi’s guest appearance on 30 Rock, I thought she was, well, terrible, and this didn’t bode well for her future in sit-coms. But the one line highlighted in the previews turned out to be out of context, and she was quite funny. The writing gets most of the …
For the second time this season, Bravo is depriving us of a new episode of Top Chef, but instead of a repeat, is airing a one-off special called “All Stars Dinner.” Yes, it’s a reunion, with Fabio Viviani hosting “an all-star get-together complete with a challenge,” Bravo says. The chefs will also “rehash their favorite …
I never thought I’d complain about talent on Top Chef, but here I go: I’m tired of Michael and Bryan Voltaggio and watching their march toward an inevitable win while they play out their unresolved childhood issues by bickering non-stop. It’s obvious that the two men are extraordinarily talented. Michael, the younger, angrier one who …
This summer hasn’t been good for the equipment used to bring us reality shows. Chima completely accidentally hurled hers into the jacuzzi on Big Brother 11, and a camera was literally forced to view and record Russell H.’s gross underwear on Survivor Samoa. Now, we have footage of a battery on a camera’s audio rig …
Top Chef Masters ended its first season perfectly last night, with the three remaining chefs–Rick Bayless, Michael Chiarello, and Hubert Keller–creating four-course meals based upon their lives as chefs. Rick Bayless, who owns Topolobampo, a restaurant in Chicago “that’s a favorite of the Obamas,” won the $100,000 prize for his charity, the Frontera Farmer Foundation. …
Bravo’s now-marquee reality show ends its spin-off and debuts its sixth season tonight in back-to-back episodes. First, Top Chef Las Vegas debuts in its new timeslot at 9 p.m. ET with a cast of 17, slightly older chefs that includes two brothers. After that, Top Chef Masters concludes at 10:15; a marathon of its entire …