Jamie Oliver-related stories
Posted May 11th 2009 5:06PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
Just what America needed, another celebrity telling us we need to eat better. British chef Jamie Oliver is teaming with Ryan Seacrest to
create a reality show on ABC that will give eating "makeovers" to certain sections of the United States.
It's a nice idea, but I doubt it will make a significant impact on this country's eating habits. America is about getting food cheap and fast, so fast food is the nourishment of choice, and I say this as someone who practices awful eating habits. Processed food is inexpensive compared to other types. The best thing anybody can do to make us eat healthier is to somehow make healthy food cheaper (the chain that gets this closest to correct is Subway).
If they keep this "cheap and healthy" formula in mind, I think the Oliver/Seacrest team has a chance of success.
The Biggest Loser has personal trainers to help each contestant. We'll see if Americans can succeed without one.
Posted Jun 1st 2008 9:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free
You're probably not going to see this on Martha Stewart.
British chef Jamie Oliver made a point recently about the way that chickens (and other animals) are treated and killed in the manufacture and processing of food. Oliver has been an activist for years and really wants people to understand where their food comes from. He brought out a bunch of fluffy, cute baby chicks and let a studio audience pet them and get to see how they cute they were. Then he took the baby chicks and gassed them, live on stage. Then he fed one to a big snake.
It's a little disconcerting, with the wacky music and the audience oooooing and ahhhhhhing. Then the killing comes and the audience cries (though I wonder if they know that you have to kill chickens and cows and other animals you see dancing in Pixar films to make the food we love to eat). Video after the jump (though you won't actually get to see the snake eat the chick, you ghouls).
By sheer coincidence, I'm having chicken tonight.
Continue reading Jamie Oliver: Killer of cute baby chicks - VIDEO
Posted Nov 14th 2007 6:01PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Programming
Jamie Oliver, a favorite of many Food Network lovers, will be returning "home" with his new show to air in January. Probably most famous for his show
The Naked Chef, Jamie's new show will be called
Jamie at Home. Bob Tuschman, Senior Vice President, Programming for Food Network, explains: "His new show focuses on recipes that are quick, fresh, inventive and easy to recreate at home."
The show will follow Oliver around his home in England and feature him preparing meals with produce from his own country garden. Each episode will feature a different ingredient from Oliver's kitchen garden. Oliver will show viewers a variety of recipes that focus on that ingredient.
Jamie at Home premieres on
Food Network on Saturday, January 12 at 9:30 a.m. ET/PT as part of Food Network's "In the Kitchen" line-up.
Posted Aug 21st 2007 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Animation, Celebrities, Children
Jamie Oliver is getting Wallace & Gromit-ized.
Aardman Animations, which produces the Wallace & Gromit cartoons, and Fresh One Productions, Oliver's company, are making a cartoon which will feature the young chef. The series will be titled Little J and will feature the adventures of a 10 year-old Jamie Oliver and how he started to love food and cooking and became a chef.
The show is described as "comically surreal and exciting," and from the picture in the article it certainly looks like it will be heavy on the surreal part. What is that he's holding, a giant broccoli with a face? And I know they don't have the best dental system in Britain, but look at that mouth. Very A Nightmare Before Christmas, mixed with a little Yellow Submarine. Should be fun though.
[via TV Tattle]
Posted Sep 26th 2006 12:19PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, TV on DVD, PBS, Ask TV Squad, Food Network
TV Squad reader, Steve, likes to cook with celebrity chefs. He says watching a recipe on television is "easier to understand than just reading in a cookbook." And, if you ask me, he probably likes the friendly company of Emeril, Rachael Ray and Paula Deen. But, recording cooking shows on VHS is a pain. To find his favorite pizza recipe, Steve would have to search through the tape. He asks TV Squad: Are there any DVDs/CDROMs of celebrity cooking shows?
Yes and no, Steve. There are, but I found surprisingly few.
Continue reading Ask TV Squad: Are cooking shows on DVD?
Posted May 8th 2006 4:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
Will David Blaine drown? Check out live at 8pm on ABC. It's followed by a new What About Brian? Unless Blaine drowns, and then it will probably be followed by ABC news live coverage of his death.
- CBS has new eps of King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Old Christine, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has a new Deal Or No Deal at 8, followed by new eps of The Apprentice and Medium (with Kelsey Grammer).
- Over on FOX, new episodes of Prison Break and 24.
- The WB has the series (season?) finale of 7th Heaven at 8, followed by a new Everwood.
- UPN has new eps of One On One, All Of Us, and a new one hour Girlfriends.
- TLC has Jamie's School Lunch Project, where chef Jamie Oliver teaches kids how to cook. It's on at 8.
- TV Land has four eps of Leave It To Beaver, starting at 8.
- Also at 8: TNT has two NBA playoff games.
- At 9, USA has a new WWE Monday Night RAW.
- Also at 9: the Travel Channel has a new Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
- At 10, MTV has a new Punk'd.
Posted Jan 9th 2006 12:47PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Talent, Programming
Two TV chefs in Britain, including Gordon Ramsay of
Hell's Kitchen, got into a bit of trouble recently for showing animals being slaughtered on the air. Well, it
seems they didn't actually show it in gory, graphic detail, but on chef Jamie Oliver's show,
Jamie's Great
Escape, he did slit a lamb's throat. On Ramsay's show, a slaughterman was brought in to kill a few turkeys with a
stun gun. Both shows resulted in fifty-seven complaints, but Ofcom maintained that the killing of the animals was done
in a responsible and humane manner.
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