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We Americans are fascinated with food and the people who prepare and serve it. A quick glance at all of the reality cooking/competition shows on television will confirm this. You’ve got everything from “Master Chef” to “Iron Chef” to “Next Level Chef” to “Chef’s Table,” “Chopped,” “The Great British Bake-Off” and “The American Barbecue Showdown,” for starters. But the legacy of scripted TV shows about cooking and restaurant-ing isn’t nearly as epic, which is why FX on Hulu’s “The Bear” was such a revelation when it launched last summer.

“The Bear” introduced up to the pressure-cooker life inside an Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago. It captured the visceral, adrenalin-pumping chaos of the food industry in a way nothing had before, showing us just how unglamorous and dangerous (and yet colorful and compelling) a kitchen can be. After just eight episodes, it’s already probably the...

TORONTO -- Canadian broadcaster Chum Ltd. on Thursday canceled two indigenous series to make way for three new independently produced dramas. Toronto-based Chum said it will not order a third season of The Collector, a supernatural-themed drama produced by Vancouver-based No Equal Entertainment. Chum also is canceling the Keatley Films restaurant drama Godiva's, also based in Vancouver. In their place, Chum has ordered 13 one-hour episodes of The Murdoch Mysteries, a spin-off of the Detective Murdoch Mysteries TV movie franchise, from Toronto-based Shaftsbury Films.