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Call - Cooking Under Fire 1/19/05
COOKING UNDER FIRE turns up the heat
Brand-new PBS cooking competition searches for America’s next
culinary superstar
January 10, 2005 – Boston,
MA – PBS wants to know if you
can handle the heat with its brand-new prime-time show COOKING UNDER
FIRE. A documentary-style look at a national cooking competition,
this exciting new national series will search for America’s next
culinary superstar – rewarding
the person who exhibits the best mix of talent, drive, and
personality with a position as a chef in one of celebrity
restaurateur Todd English’s Manhattan establishments. COOKING
UNDER FIRE will launch its nation-wide search for contestants
beginning on Tuesday, January 11, 2005, with applications being
accepted via mail. The production will also recruit via live
auditions in three cities across the country: Chicago on January 31,
New Orleans on February 2, and Seattle on February 4. The
application and additional details will be made available online at pbs.org/cookingunderfire
beginning January 11, 2005.
Production for the 12-episode series will begin in mid-February
and continue through March, with its premiere scheduled for
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 8pm (check local listings) on PBS.
Series judges include chef and restaurateur Todd English; Emmy
Award-winning chef and host of public television’s SIMPLY MING
Ming Tsai; and acclaimed author Michael Ruhlman (“The Making of a
Chef,” “Soul of a Chef”), along with regional celebrity chefs
that will assist in the judging and elimination process. The contest
will travel to some of the country’s most well known culinary
capitals – Los Angeles, Las
Vegas, Miami, and New York City.
COOKING UNDER FIRE (formally with the working title “American
Chef”), a co-production of WGBH Lifestyle Productions, Lance
Reynolds, and John Rieber, will select 12 contestants –
ranging from culinary school graduates to at-home gourmands –
who will put everything on the line as they embark on an intense
cross-country culinary competition. With a mission of educating
viewers about what it takes to work in the high-stress, competitive,
culinary world, the challenges each contestant will face represent
actual examples of what wannabe chefs must endure to succeed: from
cooking on a budget, to incorporating regional and cultural cuisine,
to the successful pairing of food and wine.
“Chefs have taken on a new level of celebrity status around the
world, and our goal is to peer into the kitchen and reveal the real
world, nitty-gritty skills that are required to make it as a
successful chef,” explained executive producer John Rieber.
Laurie Donnelly, executive producer of WGBH Lifestyle
Productions, added, “We want this series to provide greater
respect for the people who not only have the ambition that is
critical for success in the restaurant world, but also reward them
for their demonstrated talent and hard work.”
Based on an idea by Lance Reynolds –
who has represented some of America's leading celebrity chefs
including Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef) –
and John Rieber, former Senior Vice President of Original
Programming for E! Entertainment Television who created programming
such as the “Wild On” travel series and “Revealed with Jules
Asner,” the series production team includes Donnelly and
represents an award-winning combination of feature film,
documentary, how-to, and lifestyle programming experts.
Corporate funding for the series is provided by Chrysler.
Further details about the auditions, broadcast, and production
will be made available in the coming weeks. Visit pbs.org/pressroom
or pressroom.wgbh.org for
additional information.
COOKING UNDER FIRE is a co-production of WGBH Lifestyle
Productions, Lance Reynolds, and John Rieber. Corporate funding is
provided by Chrysler. Inspiration Comes Standard.
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer,
the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with
some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and
children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the
number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited
dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia
and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the
36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions.
WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys,
duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored
with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of
excellence. For more information visit www.wgbh.org.
©2005 WGBH Educational Foundation
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