Famed Foodies Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson Headline New Cooking Competition Series THE TASTE, Premiering Tuesday, Jan. 22 on CTV
[January 09, 2013]
Famed Foodies Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson Headline New Cooking Competition Series THE TASTE, Premiering Tuesday, Jan. 22 on CTV
PASADENA, CA, Jan. 9, 2013, 2013 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --
- Famed culinary experts Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey join Anthony
Bourdain and Nigella Lawson as THE TASTE mentors -
- CTV acquires the series from distribution company Seven One
International -
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CTV takes cuisine to a whole new
level as the network announced today from the Television Critics
Association tour it has acquired nine episodes of the all-new cooking
competition series THE TASTE from distribution company Seven One International. With culinary
experts Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson, who serve as executive
producers and head a distinguished panel of four judges, THE TASTE features professional and amateur cooks vying for the title of "Best
Tasting Dish." The ultimate taste test series kicks off with a two-part
premiere Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Sunday, Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV. The series settles into its regular timeslot of Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT beginning January 29 on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times).
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The all-new one-hour cooking competition series puts 16 culinary
competitors - pro chefs to home cooks - to the fire when four of the
world's most notable masters of the food world judge their creations
based on a blind taste test. In the pressure-packed competition series,
the taste in a single spoonful can catapult a contender to the top, or
send them packing. THE TASTE features four culinary superstars including no-holds barred chef
Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef and
author Ludo Lefebvre, and chef/restaurateur Brian Malarkey as THE TASTE mentors.
Each of the famed culinary experts coach a team of four amateur and
professional cooks, facing a variety of team and individual challenges,
and elimination rounds. At the end of each episode, the mentors judge
the competitors' dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation
they're sampling, what they're eating, how it was prepared, or whom
they could be sending home.
In the series premiere, "Auditions Part 1," the pressure is on when
Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludovic Lefebvre, and Brian Malarkey
put 29 professional chefs and home cooks through their first gruelling
round of blind taste tests - in which just a single spoonful decides
whether or not they make it past the audition phase and into the
competition.
Created by Kinetic Content, Red Arrow's U.S. production company, THE TASTE is executive-produced by Chris Coelen, Matilda Zoltowski, Emma Conway,
Anthony Bourdain, and Nigella Lawson.
About CTV
CTV is Canada's #1 private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of
quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV
has been Canada's most-watched television network for the past 10 years
in a row. CTV is a division of Bell Media, Canada's premier multimedia
company with leading assets in television, radio and digital. Bell
Media is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada's largest
communications company. More information about CTV can be found on the
network's website at ctv.ca.
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