Top Chef‘s producers are suing Texas to keep details about the state’s product placement secret, but details about one Texas city’s contributions were revealed this weekend. San Antonio was the only city to pay to be featured this season, and will be featured in eight of the 14 episodes for $200,000. Its deputy city manager, …
Magical Elves, the creators and producers of Top Chef, have sued the Texas attorney general to prevent the release of information in documents from the Governor Rick Perry’s office related to the $400,000 Texas paid for product placement in the new season. Today, The Dallas Observer reports on the progress of its requests for documents …
Besides adding its own Redemption Island to give eliminated contestants a chance to return, Top Chef Texas will follow in the footsteps of other reality shows by making casting part of the first episode. That will start with 29 chefs, who will be narrowed to 16. The casting videos for those 29 chefs are now …
Top Chef’s Last Chance Kitchen is the exact same idea as Survivor’s Redemption Island: eliminated contestants battle for the right to re-enter the game.
You’ll soon be able to buy frozen food branded with Top Chef, thanks to Bravo’s latest evil genius move: partnering with Healthy Choice to sell a line of frozen entrees. Part of Healthy Choice’s Cafe Steamers line, the meals will be integrated into the new season, Top Chef Texas, and feature “the essence of Top …
Last week, Bravo announced that Top Chef‘s ninth season was filmed in Texas, but that press release and subsequent press accounts didn’t mention what several Texas publications have been reporting on ever since word leaked about a confrontation that confirmed the show was filming in the state: The show asked cities and the state to …
Bravo officially announced Top Chef Texas today, and for the show’s ninth season, it is adding two new judges in addition to Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons: Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson, who was on the most-recent season of Top Chef Masters. Bravo notes that the season will move between Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio. …