Food Network Shows, a list by James Dooley

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Welcome to Sweet Empire, hosted by Wells Adams where bakers hold the power to build their teams, shape their vision and rise to sweet supremacy … or crumble in defeat. Each episode, competitors craft jaw-dropping desserts and showstopping masterpieces inspired by holiday traditions, pop culture and pure imagination. Judged by Yolanda Gampp and Jacques Torres, only the most daring creations will stand tall. At stake: $50,000 and the title of Sweet Empire.

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Guy Fieri is combining everyone's favorite culinary competition with the most wonderful time of the year by delivering the ultimate holiday present — Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas. For the first time ever, 32 jingle-bell-rock-star chefs are teaming up as duos to make both sweet and savory dishes in a one-of-a-kind, holly-jolly tournament. These chefs will try to "sleigh" the competition for a shot at the $100,000 prize and some seriously sweet cash for charity. With festive flavors, fierce battles and enough Christmas spirit to stuff a stocking, the holidays have never been this delicious

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Follow the culinary and entrepreneurial journey of Ravneet Gill and her husband Mattie, as they take on the challenge of opening their own restaurant using only their personal savings.

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Host Laila Ali challenges chefs to settle their disputes in a single round, head-to-head culinary battle. The food world is filled with bold chefs with egos as big as their resumes, employees who have been wronged by their boss, restaurateurs defending their livelihoods from copycats, and owners whose staff walked out during busy dinner shifts. They all come here to call each other out, put their favorite knives on the line, and bury the hatchet. The winners walk out with $10,000 cash, a prized knife from the losing chef's knife roll and bragging rights for life!

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Master cake artist Duff Goldman takes on six teams of the world's best cake makers -- all at the same time, over four action-packed days. The winning team from each battle earns $10,000 and a chance at the grand prize, an additional $40,000.

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In Cutthroat Kitchen: Knives Out, hosted by Brian Malarkey, four chefs each start with $25,000 and face off in a high-stakes cooking competition where strategy is just as important as skill. Along the way, they can spend their cash to gain advantages—or sabotage their rivals. From stolen ingredients to destroyed utensils and wasted time, no tactic is too ruthless. In the end, only one chef will outcook and outsmart the rest to keep whatever money they have left.

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Join Chef Asma Khan in her new show, Secrets of the Curry Kitchen, on a journey through the vibrant world of Indian cuisine.

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Chefs battle with cooking, strategy, and survival skills for the throne. Weekly rulers emerge through cultural challenges, while eliminations and new entries keep six players in play. The winner takes home $100K.

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Adam Richman dives fork-first into Britain’s football food culture. Eating his way around some of the country’s leading football clubs. Adam will savour the flavours of everything from classic matchday footy scran to modern stadium fine dining.

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age 9+

Pairs of professional bakers compete to create spellbinding edible showpieces on the actual sets where the Harry Potter films were made.

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Eight of the most talented chefs in the country receive a mysterious invitation to stay and cook at a spooky, isolated hotel. In the end, only the most talented, strategic and resourceful chef will end their stay at the hotel $25,000 richer

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age 6+

Competitors showcase their skills in baking and pastry, focusing on technique, artistry, flavor, innovation, and inspiration.

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age 8+

Selena Gomez heads out of her home kitchen and into the kitchens of some of LA’s hottest restaurants, with chefs teaching and testing Gomez to see how quickly she can learn the ropes with the ultimate goal of creating a dish good enough to make each restaurant’s menu.

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Food Network's most ambitious and grueling culinary competition to date. Featuring 24 talented and fearless chefs who take on 24 food challenges in 24 consecutive, non-stop hours, the 24-hour competition takes the chefs to the extreme, demanding they display the skills, creativity and stamina needed to be an elite chef. At the end of the 24 hours, there can be only one true master left standing.

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Guy Fieri tasks Noah Cappe and two Food Network chefs with going off the Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives path to find the best local dishes around.

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Three chefs bring $5,000 each to play three hands of an underground culinary poker game, creating dishes based on the cards they are dealt and betting with their own money. With unpredictable challenges and wildcard elements, chefs must rely on their instincts to impress mystery guest judges through blind taste tests and win cash from their fellow competitors.

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Renowned for his passion for food and appetite for outrageous eating feats, Man v Food star Adam Richman has embarked on a culinary journey across the British Isles, as a love letter to British cuisine. Armed with a map of the UK, the Brooklyn-based food expert and chef is attempting to shed light on the globally misunderstood and unfairly maligned realm of British cuisine, for a new Food Network UK show, Adam Richman Eats Britain.

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Selena Gomez is at the top of her game as a musical artist, actor, businesswoman, and philanthropist, but she calls in the experts to help amp up her kitchen skills for the holidays. This year she has invited all-star chefs Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon, and Claudette Zepeda to bring their favorite dishes and culinary wisdom to her home kitchen so they can cook up perfect holiday meals to share with friends and family.

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It is described as being set in a whimsical holiday wonderland and featuring The Elf on the Shelf's Scout Elves challenging some of the best sweets makers from across the country to create the most magical and unexpected holiday creations ever seen.

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Sixteen chefs well-versed in all things Julia Child are ready to put their expertise to the test in the new five-part tournament Chopped: Julia Child's Kitchen hosted by Ted Allen and premiering Tuesday, November 14th at 8pm ET/PT on Food Network.

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A world-class chef and restaurateur, Franco Noriega loves to entertain. Inspired by his Peruvian and Italian roots and his love of international travel, Franco dishes up simple, colorful, crowd-pleasing plates for everyone to enjoy.

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Teams of two chefs from different generations tackle challenges that require them to incorporate popular ingredients and gadgets from the past, as well as master viral food trends and classic dishes.

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Host Jesse Palmer invites 10 of America's top bakers to channel their summer joy through baked goods as they face two challenges week after week.

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Ten rising culinary stars live together in a breathtaking Italian villa and compete against each other as individuals and in teams to prove their mastery of Italian cooking techniques and dishes. Described as "Big Brother" meets "Under the Tuscan Sun," the participants must also navigate alliances and rivalries as they pick their own teams. Each week, the losing team must vote off one of their own. In the end, only the last chef standing wins the life-changing grand prize: an immersive culinary education across Italy, training with renowned Italian master chefs.

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Darnell "Superchef" Ferguson invites superstar chefs to settle their disputes in a one dish, winner-takes-all heavyweight battle. The victors leave with $10,000, a prized knife from the losing chef's knife roll and bragging rights for life!

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Sunny Anderson and New England Patriots Hall-of-Famer Vince Wilfork host the series in which fans battle in a tailgate cooking contest.

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Food Network ditches the studio to follow seven gifted amateur bakers. They're hitting the road to submit their best desserts in baking competitions across America, all while pursuing the sweetest taste in the world: victory.

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Home cooks face off against celebrity chefs for a chance to win $5,000.

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Features one competitor per episode who enters Bobby's secret kitchen to compete against professional chefs in three head-to-head rounds. If the competitor can out-cook the titans and earn more points, they take home the cash prize.

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Five crafty bakers compete to prove their cookie-making skills by decorating decadent and show-stopping Halloween cookie creations for the title of Halloween Cookie Champion.

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Famous Hollywood guests will compete in games and trivia related to food.

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The Try Guys testing their mettle in kitchens across America by attempting to whip up a variety of classic dishes and restaurant specialties - with some "surprising and hilarious results".

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Michelin-starred Chef Tom Kerridge offers a step-by-step guide to preparing his favourite meal of the week. He shows us how to create the perfect Sunday lunch from from the amazing main meal to an indulgent pudding to wrap things up.

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Bobby Flay and his daughter, Sophie, take an incredible food tour across the California coastline. They’re “on a mission to visit amazing restaurants and inspired chefs and enjoy the delectable and inventive cuisine created from the best the area has to offer.

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It's the most competitive game in food -- BBQ! Chef and restaurateur Michael Symon heads to the biggest BBQ competitions across America to showcase the talented pitmasters, die-hard devotees and, of course, the most mouthwatering 'que around.

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Chef Antonia Lofaso challenges the foremost cooks from the East and West Coasts to step up in the ultimate battle to determine which coast does summer food best.

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Guy Fieri, his wife Lori, and his sons Hunter and Ryder, “load up their RV and hit the road with a caravan of campers for family and friends on a trip they will never forget.” The Fieris and their friends take a “monster journey up the coast,” making their way from Northern California through Oregon and into Washington. The road trip is filled with adventure, fun competitions, and of course, unbelievable meals.

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Baker extraordinaire Duff Goldman is kicking off an all-new show featuring the kinds of recipes he makes for his wife and daughter at home, hearty meals *and* adorable desserts alike.

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Prolific video creators, YouTube stars and lifelong friends, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal have amassed billions of views with countless segments dedicated to learning about and trying new food on their wildly popular daily internet show, “Good Mythical Morning.” Now this dynamic duo are going behind closed doors and into the secret test kitchens and research & development centers of some of America’s favorite food brands.

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Award-winning pastry chef Stephanie Boswell and her team focus on one crashing bakery and figure out how to completely makeover their business. To stop these pastry shops from bleeding money, she must freshen up stale recipes and revamp dingy storefronts, along with HGTV designers Lauren Makk and Breegan Jane, to get customers back in the door. Stephanie does not sugarcoat the truth from the bakery owners as she diagnoses their problems. With her sharp eyes, razor wit and loving compassion, Stephanie can transform these battered pastry shops and bakeries into gleaming showrooms filled with delicious sweets and vibrant, eye-popping desserts.

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Ina Garten welcomes fun, interesting people into her home for food and conversation.

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Home cooks and Julia Child superfans compete during two rounds of competition in an attempt to impress the judges with their culinary abilities and share how Julia changed their lives. The first round masters the basics and challenges the competitors to re-create one of Julia's signature dishes, with some guidance from Julia herself, as seen on a giant television screen in the middle of the action. Round 2 is an ode to Julia, where competitors must take inspiration from Julia to create a unique dish reflecting their own culinary point of view. Dishes from the second round are served family-style, with competitors and judges sampling each dish and sharing stories about their food journeys and personal connection to Julia. Antonia Lofaso and a rotating panel of guest judges will decide which of the competitors wins the life-changing grand prize that literally follows in Julia's footsteps: an all-expense paid three-month cooking course at Le Cordon Bleu.

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A group of talented bakers are tasked with creating tasty and imaginative holiday showpieces that exemplify what Easter is all about.

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Features Giada De Laurentiis as she shares recipes, offers expert advice and showcase delicious dishes perfect for entertaining friends and help people have a healthy life.

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Six candidates are given quizzes, competitions, and stress-inducing tests by Guy Fieri to get a chance to run their own Chicken Guy! franchise.

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Brave and talented chefs attempt to take down Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli, the most feared and accomplished competition cook in America. Chef Alex goes up against three chefs in two rounds of cooking, and anyone -- even Alex -- can be sent home after a blind tasting by the judges.

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