MarioBatali-related stories
Posted Oct 9th 2009 12:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
When you're a cable network and you're only reaching 55 million households and want to reach twice that amount, what do you do? If you're Scripps Networks, you rebrand the channel and give it a new name. That's why
Fine Living will become the Cooking Channel in 2010.
The way I see this, since Scripps owns the Food Network, the Cooking Channel will be sort of a Food Network annex. Food Network 2.0. Food Network, Two. In actuality, a lot of the programming on Fine Living now is connected to Food Network. Old
Iron Chef episodes, Emeril LaGasse and Mario Batali and Wolfgang Puck ... all cooking shows that were once on Food Network.
Now that it's going to drop the Fine Living angle and concentrate on cooking, all the overflow from Food Network will have somewhere to go.
Continue reading Fine Living will become the Cooking Channel
Posted Aug 12th 2008 5:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Hell's Kitchen
You know why
Rachael Ray is smiling all the time? She's the richest food star in the world. According to the latest
Forbes list of top-earning celebrity chefs, Rachael Ray leads the pack. In fact, of the top 10 names, all but two are TV stars.
Therefore, you better believe that all that exposure on Food Network, Bravo, Travel Channel, Fine Living, BBC America, and Fox -- not to mention syndication and appearances on talk shows and demonstrations on the
Today Show -- makes a big difference.
Continue reading TV stars dominate Forbes's list of top-earning celeb chefs
Posted Jun 5th 2008 3:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Book? What book? That would seem to be the bone of contention, if you will.
Ben Karlin, former headwriter for The Daily Show, has filed a lawsuit against TV chef Mario Batali and actress Gwyneth Paltrow claiming they did not pay him for work he did for a book on which they were collaborating. Karlin, who shared authorship of
America (The Book) with Jon Stewart, says he was assigned to "conceptualize and oversee" a book to compliment a PBS series starring Mario and Gwyneth in which the stars take a cultural and gastronomic tour of Spain. The series, which may be called
Spain...on the Road Again, will premiere this fall.
Continue reading Gwyneth and Mario sued over food/travel book
Posted Aug 14th 2007 2:03PM by Varun Lella
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting
The normal icy stigma against appearing on TV for film stars has been thawing as of late.
Damages has Glenn Close,
Saving Grace has Holly Hunter and now PBS has Gwyneth Paltrow.
Paltrow, the star of
Shakespeare in Love and the upcoming
Iron Man movie, will be traveling to Europe this fall
for a new cooking show exploring the usually overlooked world of Spanish cuisine.
Continue reading Gwyneth Paltrow, TV star?
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