Food News - Good Eats to Return?, Bourdain Ratings, Rachael Ray Sued, and More
- Alton Brown recently hinted that Good Eats would be returning. On Twitter, a fan asked what happened to Good Eats, to which Alton responded - Hint Hint, "Your patience will be rewarded." Also, from an IndyWeek article today, it states Alton "has good news for fans of his best-loved TV show: He'll be putting up
a new web series later this year. Brown calls it "the evolution of Good Eats." So it looks like when it does return, it will be a web series rather than on TV.
- Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown is getting a lot of press for its ratings from Sunday Night's premiere. It was the 'most watched cable news show' in a specific demo with 747,000 total viewers and 282,000 viewers in the 25-54 age group. Not sure if that is deserving of all the good press when compared against other food and cable shows. For example, Sunday in the same timeslot, Chopped All Stars had 1.80 million viewers, Restaurant Impossible at 10pm had 1.423 million viewers, and Cupcake Wars at 8pm had 1.158 million viewers (futoncritic).
- The Rachael Ray Show is supposedly being sued by an overweight teen that appeared on her show 'for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress stemming
back to an appearance she made on the CBS series when she was 18 years
old.' She also 'claims the trainer made her run and hike mountains, and yelled and screamed at her.' Huffington Post has a good summary with links to the video and everything. Ronald McDonald better hope he doesn't get hit with a lawsuit too.
- Chopped Judge Marc Murphy plans to open another restaurant in New York City (Grubstreet)
- Chopped Judge Maneet Chauhan is releasing a book called Flavors of My World
, and will be doing a book tour for it. Dates and cities of the book tour are here.
Good Eats needs to be rushed back into production to replace all of these fake competition shows they keep running. In fact I would take reruns at this point. With the exception of Chopped I don't think there is much of anything left in FN primetime worth watching. If you happen to know of some way in which Chopped is faked please keep it to yourself, I still need to keep a little wonder in my world.
ReplyDeleteAgree with previous post. I have even stopped watching Iron Chef America. Don't like the new format and the show is just not the same anymore.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch TFN a lot more but I got so tired of DD&D *all the time*. Guy Fieri is like a scotch bonnet: fine in tiny, measured amounts but too much irritates the colon.
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