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.
(Gold Derby)