Review: ‘The Next Food Network Star’

Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Masaharu Morimoto, TV Show Reviews, The Next Food Network Star
03 Jun 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney The Next Food Network Star (Food Network) Baptism by Fire, Interesting Mix, Lack of Flay, Better Pulse Yowsah! I would not want to be one of the Next Food Network Stars last night. I might rather be something a lot easier .... a skydiver using a reserve chute, Britney Spear's publicity manager, a drug mule crossing the border, a cross-dresser locked up in a Southern jail, Bear Grylls drinking elephant dung in the Kalahari ... Yeah, almost anything would have been easier I think than being a Next Food Network Star contestant on it's opening ... {More...}

Food Network’s New Shows for 2008

Alton Brown, News, TV Food Shows
15 Apr 2008 About three weeks ago we told you about three new Food Network shows. One of those, Cooking for Real, already started airing two weeks ago. And we've also mentioned before about Bobby Flay's new grilling show, Grill It! coming in June. But is that all? Heck no! You see there are these things called The Upfronts which Wikipedia describes as: "In the North American television industry, an upfront is a meeting of television network executives with the press and, more importantly, with major advertisers. It is so called because it signals the start of an important advertising ... {More...}

How the Food Network has Grown … and Changed and is Changing Again

Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Mario Batali, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee, TV Food Shows
27 Mar 2008 It's been a couple weeks since the Newsday article came out about the beginnings of and current trends of the Food Network ... It's also about a couple weeks before Food Network turns it's eye inward and covers itself in one of it's own Chefography episodes on ... yes, the Food Network. So at this in between time, let's take a peek at that Newsweek article and explore where FN started and is going. Nope, changed my mind. Want the history lesson, then best to read the article. It's nice to know how things were and who was ... {More...}