Food Network Star X: Finale

It’s our final episode of the season. You’ve seen the pilots. If you cared about who will be rewarded with a thirty minute show on Saturday mornings, you voted. Now it’s time to sit through 55 minutes of filler while we wait for the results to be announced and the confetti cannons to fire.

We start with scripted banter in the car as the finalists pull up to the Chelsea Market. The taping of the…

Food Network Star X: Product Placement

This week, Food Network Star has our cheftestants focus on merchandising. It’s the Make a Personally Branded Product challenge. The show only came up with this last season, but it’s effective. After all, how do we spend our money on Food Network stars? By buying their branded products at our local megamart.

Giada and Bobby meet our remaining seven in the Food Network Studio. Alton joins via…

Food Network Star X: Cutthroat Calamities

This week, Food Network Starrolls out the first challenge based on a current popular TV shows the network airs. These challenges work on multiple levels. There’s the viewer at home level, who is either introduced to a new piece of Food Network’s line up, or the one who doesn’t normally watch FNS, but will tune in tonight because it’s the challenge based on their favorite program. As for the…

Food Network Star X: Hollywood Premiere

Season Ten of How Your Foodertainment Gets Made begins tonight. They promise us this will be the wildest, unpredictable season yet. We shall see. Despite having dropped the “mentor” format after only one season, Alton, Giada and Bobby are still referred to as “mentoring” the twelve contestants. I prefer it when we call them “The Selection Committee.”

We meet our twelve contestants as they enter…

Food Network Star X: Meet the Contestants

It’s been ten years since Food Network decided to start televising the search for new talent fodder and letting us viewers get a glimpse of how your Food Network Sausage gets made. The title has shortened. (“The Next” has been dropped.) The judges may have quietly morphed from actual producers with power to people with better star quality. But the show has impressively stayed about the same…