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Discovery has jumped into the video streaming service game with Discovery+, a new way to watch all of its content on demand. The service launched in the United States on January 4, and we’ve broken down everything you need to know about it below.

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Discovery+ includes content from every media property under the Discovery umbrella, which includes: HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN, Discovery, Discovery+ Originals, Investigation Discovery, Magnolia Network, A&e, Lifetime, History, Trvl, DIY Network, Science Channel, and The Dodo.

A Michelin star is nice. A James Beard, pretty great as well. But for some chefs nothing feels quite as sweet as besting Bobby Flay. Since 2013, the Iron Chef, a three-time James Beard honoree himself, has been taking on challengers with his Food Network series, Beating Bobby Flay, a natural extension of the head-to-head face-offs he engaged in on Iron Chef and Throwdown With Bobby Flay. The show's recipe is fairly easy. Each half-hour episode starts with two cooks battling it out to create a meal using a featured ingredient. Once a winner has been determined by the guest judges—everyone from Chrissy Teigen to Sophia...

In today’s TV news roundup, Nickelodeon’s new preschool series “Baby Shark’s Big Show” set its cast, and international advocacy organization Global Citizen will air its award special with host John Legend Dec. 19.

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Nickelodeon set the cast for its new preschool series “Baby Shark’s Big Show!,” which will premiere with an original holiday special Dec. 11. The 2D animated series will feature Kimiko Glenn as the titular Baby, a sweet and fearless little shark; Luke Youngblood as William, a clever, adventurous pilot fish and Baby’s best friend; Natasha Rothwell as Mommy, who works for the mayor of their community Carnivore Core; Eric Edelstein as Daddy, a goofy and loud dentist who flosses when he’s nervous; Debra Wilson as Grandma, a perpetual prankster, and Patrick Warburton as Grandpa, a charismatic shark who loves to tell tales about the glory days. Co-produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and SmartStudy,...

Iron Chef America is the American adaptation of Japan's Iron Chef culinary competition. America's version aired 15 years ago, debuting in 2005. The show is one of the most popular and well-known shows on the Food Network. Audiences fell in love with the giant kitchen - the Kitchen Stadium - the varying "secret ingredients' announced at the start of each episode and, of course, the infamous host's line, "Allez cuisine," which translates to "To the kitchen!"

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While there are talented, famous chefs seen competing, commentating and judging on Iron Chef America, there are also a handful of famous, talented celebrities that have made appearances on the hit show. We've ranked 10 of the best celebs that guest judged on Iron Chef America - proving that even the most popular celebrities love a good food competition show.

After the outpouring of grief and sadness over Robin Williams’ death by suicide in 2014, it’s been incredibly easy to forget the white-hot spark of life that endeared this performer to audiences to begin with.

This collection of bits — big and small, silly and poignant — touch on everything from his substance-enhanced blasts of the Seventies to measured performances for big crowds in the last several years. Taken as a whole, the one-liners and epic rants remind us of the guy who gave himself to the stage and the crowd, improvising...

Selena Gomez busts out her cooking chops in the new HBO Max series Selena + Chef. From perfecting French omelettes to undercooking cheese soufflés, the singer said that testing her culinary skills helped get her out of the quarantine rut.

“I was definitely getting down and a lot is going on,” the singer said during HBO’s TCA session on Wednesday. “[The show] was an opportunity to make something that could make people smile.”

The Dolittle star, joined by producer Aaron Saidman and chef Antonia Lofaso, shared that her first unscripted series afforded her the skills and confidence to take on challenging dishes. While some of the show’s featured recipes, including one for a spicy miso ramen, have become staples for the singer, Gomez said she intends on staying away from others.

“I really, really didn’t like that. It’s a whole process never doing again in my life,” Gomez said...

Robert Irvine will add some new ingredients to Food Network as part of a new two-year deal with the Discovery-owned cable outlet.

Irvine will lead new episodes of his series “Restaurant: Impossible” and develop mid- and short-form video segments for both linear and digital venues, including Food Network’s Kitchen app. He will also work to help struggling restaurant owners in a new spinoff series, “Restaurant Impossible: Back in Business,” which is slated to debut July 30 at 9 p.m. eastern.

“I’m beyond grateful to have had Food Network as my professional home for so many years – and positively thrilled that our partnership will continue for the foreseeable future,” said Irvine, in a prepared statement. “The biggest thanks, however, I reserve for our fans, whose enthusiasm and support make it all possible. We have a lot of work to do, with more restaurants than ever needing a helping hand.

Food Network star Geoffrey Zakarian has lined up a host of chefs and celebrities to take part in “The Great New York Foodathon,” a fundraising special to air April 17 on Fox-owned Wnyw and Wwor in New York.

The hourlong special will raise money to support City Harvest, the respected nonprofit that helps distribute millions of pounds of excess food from restaurants, grocery stores and farms to food pantries, soup kitchens and other community organizations. Fox has donated the 7-8 p.m. hour to the special, which will air commercial free. Zakarian, a notable chef and restaurateur who holds the coveted “Iron Chef” title, will serve as host and is producing the special through his Corner Table Entertainment in partnership with Content.23 Media.

John Legend, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Flay, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Ripert, Michael Strahan, Jim Gaffigan, Kristin Chenoweth, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kevin Bacon, Brooke Shields, Matt Bomer, Julianna Margulies,...

Before Guy Fieri ever wrapped his mouth around the smoked-wing nachos or Nashville hot fried chicken he regularly nibbles on TV, he had to navigate the twists of the pretzel business.

When he was around ten years old, Fieri’s parents took him on a ski trip, and would essentially let him wander as he saw fit for most of the day. He would eat a big pretzel for lunch. “Have you ever had them?” he recalls asking his parents. “They are steamed. They’ve got salt on them.” He had never been to New York and “I never knew what a pretzel was. I thought a pretzel was crunchy,” he says in a recent interview outside a cluster of very busy Food Network kitchens in New York. “My dad says, ‘If you’re such a fan of these pretzels, why don’t you own a pretzel business when we get back home?...

Food Network’s “Supermarket Stakeout” series returns for its second season Tuesday, and it couldn’t come at a more opportune time.

Folks across the country are competing to clean grocery stores out of essential goods like toilet paper and food staples before hunkering down to avoid coronavirus, and casual trips to the store — much less interactions with other shoppers — are for now a thing of the past.

Fortunately you can live vicariously “Supermarket Stakeout,” and in an exclusive clip of the season two premiere, which you can watch above, chef Will Brown channels his grandmother to cook up a delicious-looking strawberry preserve in a grocery store parking lot.

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The series is shot on-location at supermarkets around the country, with each episode featuring four chefs who must ambush shoppers as they exit the grocery...

Geoffrey Zakarian, a chef and restaurateur who is regular on Food Network, has set a podcast pact with iHeartMedia.

Zakarian’s Corner Table Entertainment banner will produce a podcast featuring Zakarian interviewing “best in class” notables from various sectors with a focus on the elements of success. Zakarian plans to record the first batch of episodes for the untitled podcast during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in February.

“From business titans and chefs to athletes and entertainers, the audience will hear directly from my guests as to what it takes to climb and stay at the top of their fields,” Zakarian said. “Each episode will provide knowledge and advice that listeners can use to improve their lives. I can’t wait to dive in and see how these outliers fuel their careers to operate at peak performance.”

Zakarian previously hosted the SiriusXM series “Food Talk,” which featured conversations with...

Exclusive: U.S production and management firm Cartel Entertainment has hired veteran agent and producer John Tomko as manager.

Tomko was previously at Rain Management Group and brings with him talent including Jane The Virgin co-executive producer Deirdre Shaw, and food historian and Iron Chef star Simon Majumdar.

Tomko packaged, sold, and produced feature The Perfect Date for Netflix, while he also sold Marlon Wayons film Sextuplets to the streamer.

Previously, he worked in feature film production and development, including a seven-year spell at Jerry Weintraub Productions between 1996 and 2003, where he was involved in Oceans 11.

Stan Spry, co-ceo of Cartel, said: “As Cartel Entertainment continues to expand its management and production business, John offers the company an opportunity to continue to grow our client list and production slate.”

In addition to hiring Tomko, Cartel has promoted kids and animation coordinator, Kate Brogden, to manager. She will specialize in writers and artists in animation.

Endemol Shine Group has acquired the format rights for hit Japanese cookery show “The Rolling Kitchen” from Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. It will represent the title outside Japan and launch the format at Miptv in Cannes next week.

“The Rolling Kitchen” is a studio-based cooking series from the director of “Iron Chef” that sees couples competing to create the best dish to win a cash prize. Each pair of contestants is separated from one another to create individual dishes in separate kitchens. Every ten minutes the kitchen is rotated by 180 degrees requiring each contestant to take over their partner’s recipe where they left it, guess the cooking method, and attempt to complete the dish.

“The series has been a huge hit here in Japan and we’re confident that the show will be equally successful in other markets,” said Kazuo Tani, director of the content business department at Yomiuri. “The...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.

This week’s question: What is your favorite reality competition show? Why? (Current and older shows apply.)

Allison Keene (@KeeneTV), Collider

Ready, set … relax! It’s “The Great British Baking Show” (or “Bake Off”), of course. It speaks to the very heart of my Anglophilia, but I’m also someone who doesn’t normally watch any baking or competition shows. I am, however, a devotee of “Gbbo” It is perhaps the most serene and happiest show on television, and so different from American (or even UK) series of a similar vein. The judges are hard but fair, everyone is so encouraging, and there is never a desire to humiliate anyone. “You are usually so good, you just let yourself down a little,” is the worst one might hear when presenting a disaster of a showstopper.

How nice! If you're a Food Network fan, you know there are a myriad of role models in the industry. But The Kitchen star Geoffrey Zakarian looks up to one in particular: Alton Brown. Closer Weekly caught up with Geoffrey, 59, at an event on Tuesday, Sept. 25 for the Zakarian Pro For Home Non-Stick Cast Iron Cookware collection — out Oct. 28 on QVC — at his Midtown NYC restaurant, The Lambs Club, where he gushed over who he looks up to in the "food world." "It has to be some of the people who have really lasted, and lasted in a good way. Alton Brown is so smart. He’s so creative and he’s so interesting. Alton is like the king. He’s so much fun in person," Geoffrey — who is a chef/partner of Point Royal at The Diplomat Beach Resort — gushed. "When we do Iron Chef and we're on a...

It seems Geoffrey Zakarian loves The Kitchen just as much as we do! The Food Network star spoke with Closer Weekly on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at an event for the Zakarian Pro For Home Non-Stick Cast Iron Cookware collection — out Oct. 28 on QVC — at his Midtown NYC restaurant, The Lambs Club, and revealed the hit series is his favorite show to be on. "The Kitchen is a special show because it is really what I do," the 59-year-old — who is also a chef/partner of Point Royal at The Diplomat Beach Resort — exclusively revealed, adding that he "loves" the series. "We try to teach people how to do simple stuff and make them feel like they could actually do this." View this post on Instagram Had a great time this morning with @mzakarian introducing my new #ProForHome nonstick cast iron pans, in partnership with @unprocessyourfood! They’ll be available for purchase on @qvc October 28th.

New York-based mobile video startup Dreams is adding three new shows to its TV streaming service: The company is scheduled to add new episodes of the “X-Files,” “NYPD Blue” and the original 1960s classic “Batman” to its mobile video app starting this Thursday.

New episodes of each show will be added to the service every week. Each and every episode will be available as a vertical video, optimized for TV viewing on the go.

Dreams launched with a catalog of unscripted TV programming in May, and has since streamed shows from partners like Animal Planet, Hgtv, Food Network and Discovery Channel, as well as live news from Bloomberg.

“We wanted to redesign TV for the phone,” said co-founder Greg Hochmuth during a recent interview with Variety. This included taking the best things from traditional TV, like long-form content and scheduled programming for lean-back viewing, and optimize it for mobile screens...

Anthony Bourdain had a profound influence on television during his 16 years on the air, thanks to his immense talent and the fortuitous timing of his rise to prominence.

Bourdain parlayed the success of his 2000 memoir “Kitchen Confidential” into his first TV series just as the expansion of the cable TV universe created huge new demand for all manner of niche programming. Food Network and other lifestyle-focused cablers such as Bravo and TLC grew by leaps and bounds in the early 2000s, which helped to fuel mainstream interest in the culinary world and its stars. This expansion opened the door for Bourdain to thrive in his signature hybrid food-travelogue format.

“He shows you that there was a story behind the chef and a story behind every plate of food,” says Allen Salkin, a veteran food writer and author of the Food Network history “From Scratch.”

“Even a show like ‘Top Chef...

He's got money in the bank! Bobby Flay is widely known as the successful chef on Food Network, but many fans are curious about his net worth considering he's been on so many shows. Scroll down to get the details! According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bobby is worth a whopping $30 million, which makes him one of the wealthiest celebrity chefs out there. And it makes sense why. First off, he's the star of shows like Beat Bobby Flay, Bobby Flay's Barbeque Addiction, Worst Cooks in America, The Bobby and Damaris Show, and more. He's additionally appeared in series including The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Food Network Star, Iron Chef, and Brunch at Bobby's, just to name a few. A post shared by bobbyflay (@bobbyflay) on Sep 25, 2017 at 8:44am Pdt On top of that, Bobby is also a restauranteur. He owns restaurants in NYC, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and in...

Celebrity chef Cat Cora wed award-winning producer Nicole Ehlrich on Saturday at the Villa Verano Estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., reports Us Weekly. The Iron Chef star told the publication, "Today was such a magical day. I married the love of my life, Nicole Ehrlich, in front of all of our family and closest friends. To share our love and commitment to one another, alongside our six sons, was a dream come true. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day!" The outlet also reported that the brides wore dresses from Kleinfeld Bridal with Cora wearing Pnina Tornai and Ehrlich opting for Signore. The couple asked bakers from around the country to submit wedding cake designs for a...

Bobby Flay can cook up some good recipes and maybe even some TV drama. Last fall, reports surfaced claiming the Food Network fan-favorite quit Iron Chef Showdown in the middle of filming. While Bobby assured viewers at the time that it was all just some "confusion," fans are getting some more insight into what really happened during a taping. While speaking at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival this past weekend, Bobby revealed that during the final competition of the summer, he removed his chef's coat 20 minutes into filming to reveal a shirt that read: "This is my last Iron Chef battle ever." "I wanted everyone to know that this is my last Iron Chef battle...

Sci Fi Channel has greenlighted a pilot for the reality competition series Run for Money, which pits contestants against one another in the quest for cash prizes as they are stalked by relentless "hunters."

Run for Money, based on a successful Japanese format from Fuji Television (Iron Chef), takes place over 60 minutes of real time in landmark locations. As the clock winds down, the competition gets harder as more hunters appear on the streets, the game perimeter gets smaller and tasks are assigned that test contestants' nerves.

Contestants earn money for every second they "stay alive" and may opt out of the competition. If they keep playing and are overrun by a hunter, they lose everything. The last person standing takes the prize.

" 'Run for Money' is a fun, fast-paced, thriller of a show and fits nicely with our reality agenda of putting ordinary people in wild, extraordinary situations," Sci Fi executive vp original programming Mark Stern said. "It's high-adrenaline fun: part sport, part real-life video game."

Run for Money, announced this year as part of the network's development slate, is executive produced by Scott Messick.