Television

Craig Ferguson

Seattle, Please Pack Your Knives and Go

​Seattle's remaining hopes for Top Chef representation evaporated tonight with the first-round elimination of cheftestant Ashley Villaluz. Villaluz was sent home for a lackluster plate of oxtail, following the northbound path paved last week by Seattle's Simon Pantet, Nina Vicente and Colin P ... More >>

Seattle Annihilated in Top Chef Competition

Challenged to "prepare a dish using one cut of pig," Sutra's Colin Patterson made a short rib zucchini cake with mole roja and roasted cauliflower tarragon soup. And it was messy. ​So that's why Top Chef's Seattle delegation was so prickly abut Texas. When I spoke to the show's Seattle-based ... More >>

Four Seattle Chefs to Appear on Top Chef: Texas

​The biggest-ever Top Chef class of cheftestants includes four Seattle representatives, or a full 14 percent of the cast. The forthcoming season of Top Chef features 29 chefs, including Simon Pantet of 22 Lounge; Colin Patterson of Sutra; Nina Vicente of Spur Gastropub and Ashley Villaluz, id ... More >>

Up All Night and A Pizza Mart Pull Through When It Counts

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ While the fall television season may bring cheer to more discerning couch potatoes through bringing back time-tested serial delights, it's also the time for television newcomers to step up to the plate and get crowds buzzing for the next big thing. NBC has no shortage ... More >>

Ask a Mexican!

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ While the fall television season may bring cheer to more discerning couch potatoes through bringing back time-tested serial delights, it's also the time for television newcomers to step up to the plate and get crowds buzzing for the next big thing. NBC has no shortage ... More >>

Archer and Pike Place Chinese Break New Ground

Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ As the Fall TV premieres begin to burst forth onto our screen like a giant, whacked pinata full of illegitimate Mad Men progeny and "supernatural dramas," TV Dinner is here to help you sort the wheat from the chaff. This week will investigate a particularly golden bale ... More >>

Victory Is Sweet for Mighty-O's Sara Beth Russert

Sara Beth's a big winner on Food Network Challenge's first-ever hole-off.​Mighty-O's badass doughnut diva, Sara Beth Russert, came out on top of the heap during Sunday's Food Network Challenge, a heated battle against some tough competition. Sara Beth kicked the butts at Top Pot as well as Th ... More >>

When It Comes to Making Tender Pasta, Martha's Going for the Feel of a Baby's Bottom

Photo by Leslie KellyAll hail the pasta queen! ​You've probably heard it before, but the true genius of a great pasta maker is all about getting the right touch. Just like making bread. This isn't something that can be taught. It's something you learn over the course of making buttery-soft pas ... More >>

Ken Jennings is Too Charming and Intelligent to be Human

​Two humans and one machine are scheduled to resume their intellectual duel-to-the-death tonight on Jeopardy. Or is it two robots and one human? After the live chat Seattle brainiac Ken Jennings just gave on The Washington Post forum, it's starting to look like Jennings may in fact be a machin ... More >>

Bill Gates and Jon Stewart Talk Polio, Money, and Whether He Is Indeed Batman

​Bill Gates is one of those Jon Stewart guests that probably won't leave you rolling on the floor laughing. He's also not one of the controversial guests that Stewart spars with in epic and riveting clashes of intellect. No, Gates, as Stewart says, is Batman; and when one interviews Batman, it ... More >>

Today Reverb Recommends You Check Out Blair Waldorf's Country Style

Believe it or not, Blair Waldorf can sing.​Leighton Meester is best known for playing fashionable queen bee Blair Waldorf on the CW drama Gossip Girl. But the actress has repeatedly expressed her desire to also be a recording artist, an often dangerous ambition. (Just ask Jennifer Love Hewitt. ... More >>

In A Snub to Actual Reality, Top Chef Takes Home the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program

Padma, Tom and Gail are all going to melt down their Emmys to make some wicked grills to cover all those teeth​ Did you watch the Emmy Awards last night? I did. Not by choice, necessarily, but because my darling wife Laura celebrates exactly four holidays around our house: Christmas, Thanksgi ... More >>

Maria Hines Victorious on Iron Chef

​In case you missed last night's Iron Chef America viewing party at the Bottleneck Lounge, I can now tell you that Tilth's Maria Hines did the very-nearly-impossible by kicking the mother-lovin' crap out of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. But wait, not only did she totally hand Morimoto his ass ... More >>

Just Because It's Awesome: Ready, Set, Bag! Movie Trailer Released

​There are a lot of food competitions on TV these days. There's Top Chef where the pros fight it out, Top Chef Masters where more pros do the same, but for charity. Hell's Kitchen is for barely ambulatory knuckleheads and rank amateurs competing for (wink wink) an exec chef's job at one of Gor ... More >>

Too Beautiful to Live

​There are a lot of food competitions on TV these days. There's Top Chef where the pros fight it out, Top Chef Masters where more pros do the same, but for charity. Hell's Kitchen is for barely ambulatory knuckleheads and rank amateurs competing for (wink wink) an exec chef's job at one of Gor ... More >>

Details Announced for Top Chef Washington D.C.: Eric Ripert For President

Change I can believe in​Bravo has finally released the vital details on their new season of Top Chef, and this time around the whole show is going to be centered in Washington D.C.--certainly an interesting and cosmopolitan destination, food-wise, and a perfect excuse for the producers to snag ... More >>

Conan's 'Miserable' Life: Laugh to Avoid Crying

In his "60 Minutes" interview Sunday, filmed in part in Seattle, Conan O'Brien responded to Steve Kroft's queries about his Tonight Show firing and "miserable" days thereafter, a time that O'Brien's wife Liza O'Brien of Seattle said was "really hard for him. It was watching someone's heart get brok ... More >>

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One Big Truck Full of Crazy: Top Chef Tour Coming to Seattle (and also Portland)

​The best thing about watching Top Chef in the past couple seasons? Watching the chef-testants go all cuckoo-bananas after being locked up together in that house for a few weeks. There was Jennifer Carroll's slow-rolling meltdown from last season, the Hosea-and-Leah debacle from the season bef ... More >>

Comment of the Day: The Crazies

I am going to see those eyes in my nightmares...​No sooner had I gotten my breaking news posted about the Top Chef roadshow coming to Seattle, than apparent Top Chef fanatic Zibby popped up to remind me about one of the great, all-time Top Chef crazies: Marcel Vigneron (pictured right there in ... More >>

Update: Top Chef Masters Taps Seattle Chefs

Yeah, that's Bender he's holding. I still prefer Futurama to The Simpsons​Intrepid reporter Erika Hobart already came through with the news yesterday that three of our local chefs will be packing their bags to compete in the second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. Thierry Rautureau from Rov ... More >>

Holly Smith Bites Dust on the Next Iron Chef

After narrowly escaping the jaws of defeat in the series premiere of The Next Iron Chef, Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith's lackluster bouillabaisse got her sent back to her Kirkland kitchen in round two. My money's on New York chef Jehangir Mehta to win it all, but I must say I'm disappointed with the fo ... More >>

Holly Smith Surives Iron Chef Elimination...Barely

​When you hear people speak of "food porn," they're likely speaking of the Food Network in general, and Iron Chef in particular. Just finished a huge dinner? Not to worry: After an hour of watching Iron Chef, you'll be ready for round two--not exactly good news for that plan to practice tough ... More >>

Once More for the People in the Cheap Seats: Yo Yo Ma and Co.

Like many children in the 1980s, the characters on Sesame Street felt almost like family. And in 1989, four days after my ninth birthday, I plopped down to watch as usual. The episode had something to do with a turtle being afraid of Barkley, the giant dog that chased the kids around in the opening ... More >>

Another Good Reason Not to Own a TV

File this one under the category of creepy press releases from skeezy publicists. Last Friday, the same day the event was being promoted, we were offered a chance to come report on (leer at?) the following:"Gold Diggers" produced by David DeLay of Grandpa's R.V. Productions and Josh Hodgins ... More >>

The Air Is Sweet

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KOMO Rocks the Emmys

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The Air Is Sweet

And the sex jokes are hilarious, on Avenue Q.

Young @ Heart : Is Kirk Douglas Available for the Remake?

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Bret Michaels' Career, May It Rest In Peace

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Saul Williams' Letter To Oprah

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Sea-Idol

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Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

The Jeopardy! champ examines the history of trivia.

Oprahfied

The Jeopardy! champ examines the history of trivia.

Two Twos

Caprial and John's new show and Lisa and Jonathan's new restaurant.

Golden

Steve Wiecking

Farrah Forever!

Guilty favorites, hidden pleasures, and obscure treasuresthe TV vaults have opened up and are flooding onto DVD.

Mambo Italiano: The Glorious Devolution

Learning to love formula filmmaking for now, at least.

War Correspondence

How local news outlets are covering the conflict.

Family-style

The Batalis, keeping it real here and in N.Y.C.

Out of the past

Sixty-year-old movies seem contemporary indeed.

Yo! Em-TV Cooks

The smell of testosterone fills TV cooking-show kitchens.

Oprah's outcasts

What does it take to get booted off her couch?

He talk pretty

A few words with America's funniest writer.

Naked Dinner

Two new books ease cooks into the kitchen, stripping down recipes so that anybody can dress them up.

Ceci n'est pas un fall TV preview

I've got my couch and my pills and my remote control.

SQUISHING CHANNELS

Cramming 10 pounds of TV into a two-pound bag.

Watching the reporters

Cramming 10 pounds of TV into a two-pound bag.