The Food Network is hosting a "deliciously entertaining evening" for Emmy voters at the Television Academy Theatre on Wednesday night in hopes of getting nominated for some Primetime Emmy Awards. Guy Fieri and Bob Tuschman will be the ones in attendance to try to sway the voters for nominations.The shows the Food Network is trying to get nominated and the categories are below. Most shows are being entered into multiple categories.
- "Beat Bobby Flay" - Reality Competition and Host for a Structured Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Chopped" - Reality Competition and Host for a Structured Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Cutthroat Kitchen" - Reality Competition and Host for a Structured Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" - Structured Reality and Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Food Network Star" - Reality Competition and Host for a Structured Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Guys' Grocery Games" – Reality Competition
- "Rachel vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off" - Host for a Structured Reality or Reality Competition Program
- "Restaurant: Impossible" - Structured Reality and Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
The hosts on many of these shows are being submitted for nominations, so that means the following hosts could have nominations: Bobby Flay (Beat Bobby Flay, Food Network Star), Ted Allen (Chopped), Alton Brown (Cutthroat Kitchen, Food Network Star), Giada De Laurentiis (Food Network Star) Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Rachael vs. Guy), Rachael Ray (Rachael vs Guy), and Robert Irvine (Restaurant Impossible).
With pretty much all of the primetime shows on the Food Network being reality shows and competition shows, all of the entries are in these categories. Last year, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was the only Food Network show nominated for a Primetime Emmy, but it did not win.
The Primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on July 10th, 2014, and the actual award ceremony will be on August 25, 2014.
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Guy Fieri winning an Emmy is like Kim Kardashian shilling for Kindles. It makes no sense at all.
ReplyDeleteGuy's Grocery Games?! Are they serious?
ReplyDeleteI laughed so loud at this that my husband (snoring away beside me in bed) woke up! I told him it was Abby's fault. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHey! That's probably what the Emmy people are saying!
ReplyDeleteThey've otherwise ruined their credibilty, somehow I don’t think this is going to restore it.
ReplyDeleteI was at the event. Despite posters for other shows, it was designed around showcasing Guy Fieri. There was a short video presentation giving the highlights for all of his shows on Food Network followed by a Q&A session with Bob Tuschman that ran about 30 minutes or so. I would say there was a good 600-700 people there and they ate up everything Guy said. At one point, a little girl came up to an open mic to ask a cooking question and Guy went out into the audience to shake her hand and talk to her. He can really work a room.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there was anything new revealed; they will soon be shooting season two of that kids version of "Rachael vs. Guy," and just shot 26 episodes of "Guy's Grocery Games." Tuschman said after the first batch of episodes, they ended up building a working supermarket inside a warehouse near where Guy lives to shoot the series. He was in Los Angeles shooting "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" and told some anecdotes about places they chose to film around the city. He joked that people often come up to tell him they didn't like something on the menu at one of the restaurants in the show and he has to explain that he doesn't vet the entire menu.
He was complimentary but didn't talk a lot about other network people, only to say that Rachael Ray is one of his best friends and that Sandra Lee helped him out a lot after he won "Food Network Star," which he said was the hardest eight weeks of his career. Tuschman recalled Fieri's audition tape was one of the last ones they reviewed that season.
Afterwards, people descended like locusts on the free food, about eight tables with better-than-usual finger food, desserts and spiked milkshakes. Tuschman and Fieri worked the room there, too.
Thanks for the info! How did you get into the event?
ReplyDeleteI was a plus-one.
ReplyDeleteIf Guy Fieri wins an Oscar, Jaleel White ( Steve Urkle) should present it to keep it real.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Guy for an Oscar?
Acceptance speech: "I want to fist bump Hunter, other kid, Brooke Shields, blonde lady I live with, my posse and my slamma jamma Donkey sauce.
I'd watch that.