Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
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Food Network Star season 8 premieres Sunday, May 13 at 9pm/8c (formerly known as Who Will Be the Next Food Network Star? and The Next Food Network Star?) Get ready for a Star season unlike any other as Food Network icons coach their teams to success on camera and in the kitchen. Sounds like they're trying to be The Voice of food-competition shows. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
A bit early to start this thread. :)
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by Deftones
(Post 11201102)
A bit early to start this thread. :)
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
With the exception of Guy Fieri, have any of the previous contestants actually become a "Food Network Star"?
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by TheBigDave
(Post 11201330)
With the exception of Guy Fieri, have any of the previous contestants actually become a "Food Network Star"?
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by TheBigDave
(Post 11201330)
With the exception of Guy Fieri, have any of the previous contestants actually become a "Food Network Star"?
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Are they re-airing last season by some chance? I fell way behind on it last summer and missed the last 5 episodes. I wasn't crazy about last season's contestants, especially the Persian chick (I don't remember her name), but I wouldn't mind finishing it up.
I did a search on Directv and Food Network Star didn't come up yet. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
(Post 11201335)
The ones who still have shows are usually buried in the morning or afternoon. Aarti was on Chopped All-Stars last week, and they seemed to imply that her show was still on but I don't think I've ever seen it.
Originally Posted by DJariya
(Post 11201350)
Are they re-airing last season by some chance? I fell way behind on it last summer and missed the last 5 episodes. I wasn't crazy about last season's contestants, especially the Persian chick (I don't remember her name), but I wouldn't mind finishing it up.
I did a search on Directv and Food Network Star didn't come up yet. (The annoying sexy Persian mama was Penny.) |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
All I know is that The Sandwich King is a good show. Jeff is surprisingly funny and he makes a good looking sandwich.
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Ahh, the start of the summer TV season! Next Food Network Star, Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, and whatever good schlock that's in-between. Can't wait! :)
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Penny, Vic, and 2 other contestants from last year's cycle were on Chopped Champions earlier tonight.
Won't say who won, but wasn't happy so let that be a clue. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
aaron still has a show too
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by Evan Meadow
(Post 11201807)
Penny, Vic, and 2 other contestants from last year's cycle were on Chopped Champions earlier tonight.
Won't say who won, but wasn't happy so let that be a clue. Spoiler:
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Now that Alton Brown is on this (and I read in a tweet he made that he made some contestant cry) I will be watching with rapt attention. Alton is obviously going to win.
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Penny's is back on TV? Oh Lord. I can't stand the word sexy anymore because of her. :lol:
I love Alton Brown but the douchey white-haired exec is kind of essential to the cast. Is he gone? |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Bumping for the Sunday two-hour :eek: premiere
Originally Posted by mcfly
(Post 11203301)
Penny's is back on TV? Oh Lord. I can't stand the word sexy anymore because of her. :lol:
I love Alton Brown but the douchey white-haired exec is kind of essential to the cast. Is he gone? |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Enjoyable episode. Not sure who I like yet.
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Bump
Episode 2 is tonight. Just starting to watch the premiere today. It looks like they changed the format of the show with the coaches now. Plus, it looks like it's actually shot in HD and not in SD and stretched to fill a 16:9 screen. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
I said it in my other (duplicate) thread, but there's no doubt in my mind that Alton's team is going to win. Not only does he have the personalities I like best, I think he has the most production knowledge of any of them. He made his way to Food Network on the basis of his production. It wasn't his cooking skills or his freakishly large mouth that did it, it was he decided he wanted a fun show about cooking, so he made it.
The only one with any possiblity outside of Alton's team is Michelle, because she's got some hardcore personality. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
I always thought Alton made it because he was early on and they were searching for show ideas. Not that I don't like his and I watch him almost religiously. But, for the up and coming it gets harder to knock a show off and take their place. Not that some of them shouldn't be taken off (Barefoot Contessa).
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
I like the retro 1950s gal and the nerd dude. I also like Michelle but she needs to get back to being relaxed in front of people. Her hair is too similar to Chef Ann.
Sorry to see Mr. Hand-Crafted go. I'll be his food is delicious. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
As the show makes painfully clear they're more interested in personalities than cooking chops so a guy like Eric who could cook circles around most of the others but had no star appeal was doomed from the start.
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Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by mugwump
(Post 11259640)
As the show makes painfully clear they're more interested in personalities than cooking chops so a guy like Eric who could cook circles around most of the others but had no star appeal was doomed from the start.
It's a big, prime time contest for something that nobody really cares about, but people will watch it anyway. Outside of Guy Fieri, has anyone really become a Food Network "star?" Most of the winners' shows are buried in the morning or afternoon. You win and you become the Lee DeWyze of cooking shows. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Originally Posted by mugwump
(Post 11259640)
As the show makes painfully clear they're more interested in personalities than cooking chops so a guy like Eric who could cook circles around most of the others but had no star appeal was doomed from the start.
To be fair, though, what are the elements that make you watch a food show when you stumble on the channel or see a commercial on the cannel, -usually it's the concept or something appealing about the host, -and then as you watch you generally get a bead on their cooking ability or if the way they prepare their food appeals to you. |
Re: Food Network Star -- Season 8 Thread -- Premieres May 13, 2012
Definitely seems like it's Justin's competition to lose. I can also see Michelle and Emily at the end with him. The rest are pretty annoying especially Martita and Marti.
Justin's backstory is pretty interesting, he was one of a group of waiters at The Modern in Manhattan that left to start a restaurant called "Do or Dine" in Brooklyn(in Bed-Stuy no less). I can see why the judges love him so much. He also won an episode of "24 Hour Restaurant Battle" http://articles.herald-mail.com/2010...s-food-network http://articles.herald-mail.com/2012...g-chef-home-ec |
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