Film & TV

Julia Child Gets the Auto-Tune Treatment for Her 100th Birthday [VIDEO]

August 14, 2012 // 2:47 pm

To celebrate Julia Child’s 100th birthday tomorrow, PBS Digital Studios released a brand new video for the late French Chef.

Third in a series of videos remixed by John D. Boswell, also known as melodysheep, the video features an auto-tuned mash-up of Julia’s many PBS appearances and…

Anthony Bourdain Says Goodbye to No Reservations, Travels to CNN

May 31, 2012 // 2:02 pm

If you have been living under a non-food-obsessed rock lately, you might be unaware that a somewhat surprising announcement has been made on behalf of CNN .  Just a few days ago, the cable news network released a statement that Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef and TV personality,…

Mario Batali Left Iron Chef Due to ‘Skinny Little Actresses’

May 29, 2012 // 6:58 pm

Chef Mario Batali is never one to hold his tongue. In a recent interview following his departure from popular television show Iron Chef, Batali revealed his true feelings regarding the show’s new direction over the past couple years.

His main qualms with Iron Chef arose from being judged by…

Big Black To Launch a Food Truck on Episode of MTV’s “Fantasy Factory”?

April 17, 2012 // 11:51 pm

In the latest previews available for episode 11 of MTV’s Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory, we catch a glimpse of the beginnings of a potential food truck venture tentatively titled “The Dump Truck.”

We’ll have to wait until the episode premiere next Monday to catch the full episode, but it looks…

“No Kitchen Required” — 3 Chefs to Hunt, Fish and Forage Across the World For Locally-inspired Meals

March 27, 2012 // 12:55 pm

The creators of popular television series Chopped have lined up a new show for BBC America called No Kitchen Required. The program follows three chefs as they are dropped into some of the most exotic and remote places on earth where they will work with the locals…

Popular YouTube Show “Epic Meal Time” Will Be Adapted for Japanese Audiences

February 28, 2012 // 11:34 am

Since its inception in 2010, Harley Morenstein’s Epic Meal Time cooking show has amassed 2.2 million subscribers on YouTube and is currently the 12th most subscribed to channel on the leading video sharing site. What’s their next play? Adaptation for a Japanese audience, apparently.

Morenstein, the former substitute…

Rumored Schrute Farms ‘Office’ Spinoff in the Works

January 30, 2012 // 2:19 am

Bears eat beets. Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica?… Don’t you know what that means? Everyone loves beets! And what’s a better way to increase your daily intake of beets than a show about the Schrute Family Beet Farm and Bed & Breakfast?

This potential spin-off of the…

The Evolution of Food on Television [INFOGRAPHIC]

January 25, 2012 // 10:12 am

Did you know that food has been represented on television since the 1940s? Did you know that Anthony Bourdain‘s appearance fee is reportedly nearly 1/10th that of Emeril Lagasse‘s $80k-100k price tag? Even Jamie Oliver demands nearly 6x the appearance fee that Bourdain…