Daytime Emmys: Food Network Pulls in Eight, ‘Everyday Italian’ Nets Three

Bobby Flay, Boy Meets Grill, Chefs A' Field, Everyday Italian, Food Trip with Todd English, Giada De Laurentiis, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, Ina Garten, Lidia's Italy, Nigella Express, Semi-homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee, TV Food Shows, Todd English: 0 Comments; 01 May 2008 Yesterday the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 35th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award Nominations. For anyone living in a cave, this in the American television industry's highest awards and seperate from the Evening Emmys which concentrate on the big network prime time shows, these are for ... well, as they say, "daytime" TV, everything from the soap operas to animated cartoons, from kid shows to heavyweights like "The View" and "Oprah" to game shows, and include some (not all) synidcated programming and cooking shows. Our interest here of course is anything mentioned in regards to ... {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: 0 Comments; 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...}