VIDEO: Natalie Portman Cracks Jokes with Top Chefs

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef, Gossip, Video

Natalie Portman spiced up Top Chef with her recent appearance, making the table laugh with her somewhat ribald joke. And she looks so sweet!

Want to hear the quip? Watch the clip!

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Sweet! Top Chef Does Desserts

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef, Gossip

Bravo has recently picked up a Top Chef spin-off, titled Top Chef: Just Desserts. Casting is underway, and the show is expected to air in 2010 after production wraps.

Though Top Chef offers great reality TV fare, desserts aren’t often on the menu. “Their Achilles heel is usually the desserts,” Frances Berwick, Bravo executive Vice President and general manager, admitted. “We’ve been thinking it would be fun to do a Top Chef with experienced pastry chefs. We’ve had a few pastry chefs…but they haven’t gone too far. It’s just a different skill.”

One that will finally have its own Top Chef spotlight, apparently. No hosts or judges for the show have been revealed, but it’s all supposed to come together in upcoming weeks.

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This Week on TV (10/26-11/1)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Drama, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FX, MTV, NBC, The CW, 30 Rock, Heroes, Top Chef

(Make sure to check out TV Envy’s Programming Schedule.)

MONDAY (10/26)

• Heroes (NBC, 8pm):  “Claire and Gretchen go through hazing, but they’ve got other problems facing them.” They could just be blackballed from the entire network.
• Trauma (NBC, 9pm):  “Tyler and Boone are called to a Halloween party that has gone haywire.” Every year, someone takes “Dead Man’s Party” literally.
• Gossip Girl (CW, 9pm):  “Elsewhere, Dan is rattled when he watches one of Olivia’s on-screen sex scenes.” No one wants to think about Lizzie Maguire having sex.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (10/23)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, HBO, NBC, The CW, Top Chef, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:

EXTENSIONS

• Castle (ABC) - Full season order
• Community (NBC) - Full season order
• Lie to Me (FOX) - Three more episodes ordered
• Melrose Place (CW) - Five more episodes ordered
• Mercy (NBC) - Full season order
• Parks and Recreation (NBC) - Full season order
• The Vampire Diaries (CW) - Full season order

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (10/7)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, CBS, HBO, Showtime, Top Chef, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come:

EXTENSIONS

• Dude, What Would Happen (Cartoon Network) - Ten more episodes ordered
• The Good Wife (CBS) - Full season order
• NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) - Full season order

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This Week on TV (8/17-8/23)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef

(To get a look at TV Envy’s 2009 Fall Programming Schedule, click here.)

MONDAY (8/17)

• Top Gear (BBC, 8pm):  Season premiere. “The season opens on the Isle of Man, where the hosts tests the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the BMW M6 and the Porsche 911 Carrera S.” They had me at “Isle of Man.”
• Dating in the Dark (ABC, 9pm):  “Contestants search through their dates’ cars, hoping to find personality clues about one another.” Crushed Cheerios in the backseat or hair fibers in the trunk means it’s time to walk away.
• Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel, 10pm):  “The host visits Bangkok to experience the local customs and cuisine.” One night in Bangkok and be full of oysters… (Sorry, couldn’t help it.)
• Hoarders (A&E, 10pm):  Series premiere. “A series profiling people with compulsive-hoarding disorder. In the opener: a woman who hoards food in two freezers and four refrigerators.” She was just stocking up for the 2012 block party.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (6/9)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Daytime, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Talk Shows, ABC, Bravo, Cable, Syndication, Top Chef, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:

RENEWALS

• Hannah Montana (Disney) - Season 4
• Important Things with Demetri Martin (Comedy Central) - Season 2
• Just for Laughs (ABC) - Season 3
• Monster Garage (Discovery) - Season 6
• Rachel Ray (Syndicated) - Seasons 5 & 6
• Sonny with a Chance (Disney) - Season 2
• Top Chef (Bravo) - Season 6

(To get a look at TV Envy’s Summer Programming Schedule, click here.)

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Bravo Steals Another Reality Idea

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, FOX, Hell's Kitchen, So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef, Editorial

As much as I love Bravo, am I the only one getting tired of their FOX reality rip-offs?

Today, the cable channel announced that it is producing a spinoff for one of Shear Genius‘s competitors from last season. Later this summer, the cameras will be following Tabatha Coffey as she “visits struggling salons in the Los Angeles and New York areas and literally takes over the establishments to whip them into shape.” While some may say a show about hair stylists has nothing to do with FOX, I say this production smells exactly like Kitchen Nightmares.

In fact, Tabatha’s Salon Takeover would be the second time Bravo has adopted a concept already seen on that other network. Hell’s Kitchen debuted in May 2005 while Top Chef coincidentally appeared in March 2006. And how about So You Think You Can Dance? That reality hit program played a part in Step It Up & Dance‘s debut this year.

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This Week on TV (6/16-6/22)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Daytime, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Specials, Talk Shows, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, Showtime, The CW, Top Chef

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (6/16)

• The Bachelorette: DeAnna Tells All (ABC, 8pm):  “With six bachelors remaining, DeAnna Pappas assesses the competition to win her heart so far, as do her six beaus.” Apparently revealing their boxers just hasn’t told her enough.
• Weeds (Showtime, 10pm):  Season premiere. “Nancy, Andy and the boys, on the run after she set fire to their house, head to the beach and a ‘heartwarming family reunion’ with Judah’s grandmother.” Had I known this show was only 30-minutes long, I could have caught up a long time ago!
• The Mole (ABC, 10pm):  “The contestants, clad in nothing but their underwear, hit the streets of Santiago, Chile and solicit clothing.” At this point, the show could probably use a little skin to ramp interest up a bit.
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime, 10:30pm):  Series premiere. “A high-priced London escort entertains a middle-aged client who enjoys role-playing and has a penchant for being down on the farm.” I think that summary says it all.

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Top Chef Chicago: Andrew Gets a Raw Deal

Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef, Editorial, News

If three previous seasons of Top Chef have taught contestants anything, it is that you always have to follow the judges’ rules for each challenge. If you don’t, you are the most likely target to be sent packing. In Top Chef, taste is subjective. So all things being equal, the rules are the deal breaker.

Andrew is the latest chef to learn that lesson the hard way. His over-confident attempt to create a healthy sushi box lunch for Chicago cops (???) fell flat with the judges, both because it didn’t taste very good and also because it was missing a food group required for the challenge.

The spastic 30-year-old New York sous chef joins Nikki who went home last week after her ineffectual role in the “Wedding Wars” episode. That leaves just six chefs left to fight it out for this season’s title.

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