Mark Bittman coming to the Food Channel - also other new shows coming up this fall

[housewolf]

Check out the Cooking Channel's new fall shows

http://eater.com/archives/2010/08/23/cooking-channel-announces-fall-lineup-including-bobby-flay-rachael-ray-and-mark-bittmans-the-minimal.php

[Warpy]

1. HOORAY! Finally, a show for the way I cook

other than Rachel Ray's show, good enough but she uses too much pork and I don't eat pork. Bittman's stuff is not only pared down, he tends to use meat more as a flavoring than as the main event, also the way I cook.

I'm really loving the Food Channel. I just wish they'd change that irritating motto. Or just drop it.

[housewolf]

2. I don't get that motto either... "Stay hungry"???

As if the point of cooking is to stay hungry???

Maybe it's some anti-overeating campaign to encourage people not to overeat by eating only enough so that you're still a little hungry when you finish??

I don't know... I don't get it... I don't find it offensive but do find it puzzling

[Monique1]

3. I don't get the station here

unless I want to pay more money. Can't afford it now.

[yellerpup]

6. I kind of took the motto to mean

"We're coming to get you, Food Channel!" as in, stay competitive. I don't like it either. It sounds like a compromise. :hi:

[housewolf]

7. The Food Network and the Cooking Channel are sister-stations with the same parent company

Both channels are owned by Scripss. Not surprising since so many of old Food Network shows are on the Food Channel now, and current stars like Bobby Flay, Rachel Ray and Emeril starting new shows on the Food Channel as well as their existing shows on the Food Network.

Here's an article about it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/cooking-channel-food-netw_n_469128.html

The article says that the advertiser demand for the Food Network was beginning to out-pace the growth in viewership so they developed the Cooking Channel as a means to deliver more audience to advertisers.


Edited to add:
An interesting article from the NY Times about the status of the Food Network
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/dining/21network.html
THE Food Network is trying to take it up a notch by taking it down a notch.

The people who brought the brassy calorie-pusher Paula Deen, the energetic spice-sprinkler Emeril Lagasse and dozens of other stars to a mass audience are furiously preparing to start a spinoff network on May 31.

Called the Cooking Channel, it is lining up low-key programs targeted at a hipper crowd interested in the grass roots of food culture.

Ms. Deen, for one, will not have a time slot. But three young guys from Canada who build taco vending machines and other weird contraptions for a show called “Food Jammers” will.

more....



From Wikipedia:
Cooking Channel is the replacement for Fine Living Network as of May 31, 2010. The network, owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, is a spinoff (in essence) of Food Network, also owned by SNI, but will focus more on instructional shows rather than "reality style" and contest programming that Food Network is now geared towards. The original plan was to implement the change in the fall of 2010,<1> but it was later announced that the switch was being moved up to May 31, 2010 to coincide with Memorial Day in the USA.<2> Cooking Channel launched a high-definition feed on June 30, 2010. The channel has also announced it will eventually offer an on demand version.<1>


Interesting stuff...

[grasswire]

4. I saw one of those ads the other day...

...about "the world's most interesting man" and the tag line at the end is "Stay thirsty." Maybe this is a riff on that.

[Warpy]

5. It's a dumb line in both contexts

and they both need to dump it.

[tishaLA]

8. I don't get Cooking Channel and I refuse to pay $5 more for it

I'd rather spend it on the Tennis Channel, frankly, and I won't do that either.