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These shows, where did they come from!? I keep forgetting to post about them.
How about you? Are you forgetting to write about them on your secret blogs you are keeping from me? Chef Academy premiered a few weeks ago, and nary a peep from any of my usual suspects. It looks like the most interesting thing about the show is that one of its participants, Emanuel Del Cour, was actually a porn star named Jean Val Jean and is, (kiddies cover your eyes) per reality blurred, the “the premier straight porn practitioner of analingus on female co-stars.” That tidbit used to appear on Jean’s WikiPedia page, which has since been scrubbed of any mention of analingus. Even porn stars feel secret shame.
Bravo is not offering cast member blogs for this show and with Top Chef as its reigning king of food, it feels a little bit like their red-headed step child. Chef Novelli is hot, but how hot can he be with a pregnant wife? That’s a real buzzkill. Like the similar oddly timed Launch My Line, they’re going to have to work really hard to make me care about this particular string of fame whores. You want to be a chef? Go to culinary school and work your way up at a real restaurant, like the folks on Top Chef. You want to be a fashion designer? Go to fashion school. Or marry Bob Whitfield and then divorce him, and THEN go on a reality show and THEN start a fashion line.
Launch My Line at least has adorable D SQUARED. Like the previous Project Runway replacement, the ultimately depressing The Fashion Show, Launch My Line is all about clothes you can sell, with little illusions about being fashion-forward. That’s aight, everybody’s gotta make money. The most LOL-tastic was Vanessa’s “bold party wear and Eric’s “sexy club wear.”
I don’t want to know the difference.
But again, this isn’t about me. It’s about you! Tell me how to feel about these shows.
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BORING. with a capital ZZZZZZZ.
Cheap rip offs of the original concepts. have an apprentice style show. or a dating show with people over 40 – could get interesting with baggage, kids, exes etc….
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Is it me or those two brothers kinda a bit too close and touchy feely to be real brothers. Or is it just me?
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I really like Chef Academy, I think Chef Novelli has a lot of personality and its a fun show to watch. HOwever, Launch My Line just doesn’t seem right, “real” people and a seamstress team up? I don’t get it! They’re not “real” people.
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I really, really want to like the brothers of D Squared, but they seem like a million affectations and not much else. Their actual clothes are great, but as hosts/mentors/judges/whatever, they are obnoxious. And also it’s on at 11 p.m.! That makes for SO MUCH television on Thursdays, ugh.
Keep forgetting to watch Chef Academy. When is it even on?
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Chef Academy – that guy is one sick sadist. The nonchalent cruelty he shows to those people is the reason I won’t be watching. Sorry, give me Chef Ramsey who may make people tough it out but who is upfront with no sick games.
Actually, most of this is just not interesting. Bravo needs to redo their game as other shows on other networks is drawing me away.
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Two BORING snooze fests! Rip offs of the good shows; take them off and don’t bring them back, Bravo!
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Launch My Line is pure camp, and if it were any other network I might believe that was intentional.
It came on after Top Chef so I watched/listened to it as I got ready for bed, but once in bed it didn’t hold my interest enough to keep from flipping channels until I happened across late-night ‘Roseanne’ reruns. Full stop, right there, every time.
Chef Academy, I have seen snippets of reruns. Oh boy ! More risotto! The teacher is cute, and his accent and the fact that they have to caption everything he says is amusing. I don’t hate it.
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Launch my line was ok….I guess. Its already a trillion times better than the fashion show. Speaking of fashion shows I was not impressed w project runway. Actually I was really disappointed
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I like Chef Academy… but I’m a total foodie. I do think they could develop the show a little more either by developing the relationships between the students more or by heating up the competition a little bit! Or maybe team the student up with a “celebrity” and get more people watching!
I like the Chef and the fact that he isn’t an ass like Gordon Ramsey. He’s teaching them instead of screaming in their faces and calling them donkeys. I like the fact that not everybody is an “expert” and it shows a learning curve!
Hit ME up to be a contestent next season Bravo!
Roxy
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I love Chef Novelli – the show got off to a slow start but it gets better the longer it goes on – the contestants are fun and the meals interesting – plus I am learning a few kitchen tricks.
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