Food Network
Valerie Bertinelli Reveals That Food Network Canceled ‘Valerie’s Home Cooking’: “I Have No Idea Why”
Valerie Bertinelli says that the upcoming 14th season for her Food Network show Valerie’s Home Cooking will be its last. The star took to Instagram on Saturday to share a video of herself promoting the new episodes, which start airing Sunday. She went on to reveal that Food Network informed her last year that the […]
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Reality TV Workers Launch Union Drive at ‘The Kitchen’ and ‘Trisha’s Southern Kitchen’ Producer
A group of producers at BSTV Entertainment, the shingle behind Food Network projects like The Kitchen and Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, is attempting to unionize. A majority of the collection of 19 workers (whom the guild is calling writer-producers) at the Montclair, New Jersey-based development and production company have signed union cards in an attempt to […]
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Nancy Daniels, Jane Latman Out at Warner Bros. Discovery as Kathleen Finch Restructures U.S. Networks Group
The restructuring at Warner Bros. Discovery continues, with Kathleen Finch’s U.S. networks group the latest division to reorganize. The reorg will see a handful of prominent former Discovery execs depart the company, including Nancy Daniels, who had been overseeing channels like TNT, TBS, and Discovery, and Jane Latman, who had been overseeing Food Network and […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group Boss Looks to Sports for Scripted Future at TNT and TBS
In the wake of the $43 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger, it’s often overlooked that the streaming-focused conglomerate also owns dozens of linear cable networks outside of CNN and HBO. And two, TNT and TBS, are experiencing the growing pains of the new regime – seemingly pulling out of scripted. But reports of a scripted […]
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Seen, Heard and Tasted at South Beach Wine & Food Festival
While The James Beard Awards have been compared to the Oscars of the culinary world, it could be said the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival is the Grammys of eating and drinking. Much like music’s biggest night, SOBEWFF — which ran from Feb. 24 to 27 — features cross-collaboration […]
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Food Network’s ‘Big Restaurant Bet’ Dangles $250K Investment From Geoffrey Zakarian
Food Network is enlisting talent to help goose the payout in its reality competitions. And the latest is fixture Geoffrey Zakarian, who’s fronting a $250,000 investment for a hopeful chef and entrepreneur in new series Big Restaurant Bet. The six-part series, which will air on Food Network and streamer Discovery+ starting April 5, pits eight […]
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Guy Fieri Is Giving Away a Restaurant in New Food Network Show (Exclusive)
Guy Fieri’s restaurant empire has grown in concert with his TV offerings. Now, he’s marrying the two. The man behind Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games has lined up his next competition series for Food Network, and he’s giving away one of his eateries to the winner. The last competitor standing on Guy’s […]
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Bobby Flay and Food Network Agree to New Deal
Bobby Flay and Food Network have agreed to stick together. The celebrity chef, who was momentarily on track to depart the channel after 27 years, has signed a multi-year exclusive deal that will keep him put through 2024. “We are thrilled to continue Bobby Flay’s long standing relationship with Food Network,” said Food Network president Courtney White […]
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Goldbelly Launches Goldbelly TV (Exclusive)
Goldbelly — the food e-commerce platform that delivers fully cooked meals as well as meal kits nationwide from more than 1,000 restaurants — is launching video platform Goldbelly TV on its website on Tuesday. The company also announced that veteran TV producer Art Edwards (co-creator of Cake Boss) has joined Goldbelly, overseeing new production arm […]
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Why Food Network Is Doing Its First Scripted Project … For Discovery+
It’s mid-October and Halloween real estate at big box stores is already constricting, aisles girding for an onslaught of red and green. The holiday season is imminent. And, while it means much more to retail’s bottom line, cable TV may come in a close second. That stretch between Nov. 1 and year’s end is vital […]
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Bobby Flay to Leave Food Network at Year’s End
Bobby Flay and Food Network won’t be cooking together much longer. It seems as though the TV chef, who first appeared on the culinary cable channel back in 1996 with Grillin’ & Chillin‘, won’t be staying on at the Discovery-owned network once his current three-year pact expires at the end of 2021. Sources close to […]
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Guy Fieri Signs New Three-Year Deal With Food Network (Exclusive)
Guy Fieri signs a new, three-year exclusive pact with longtime home Food Network — which means more seasons of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy’s Grocery Games and more.
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