<p>Anybody else watching?</p>
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<p>I am a top chef fan. I watch iron chef every once in a while. I am interested in seeing Alex and Gregory being judged especially considering how harsh they can be on chopped</p>
<p>Top Chef didn’t start yet did it???</p>
<p>An interesting “behind the scenes” tidbit: </p>
<p>“Top Chef” approached the City of Houston along with officials in Dallas, San Antonio and Austin for the Texas cooking series to underwrite each episode to the tune of almost $150,000 for each city to participate; and then the only city willing to pay was San Antonio.
Still, the program producers decided to include Austin and Dallas without a fee, leaving Houston off the proverbial menu.</p>
<p>Now you know why Houston is not included in the show.</p>
<p>Has Next Iron Chef already started? Or is it coming up? Ack!!</p>
<p>the link says it starts tonight.</p>
<p>But, what will I do?</p>
<ol>
<li>Goodwife.</li>
<li>Homeland</li>
<li>next iron chef.</li>
</ol>
<p>Who can keep up?</p>
<p>Next Iron Chef starts tonight; Top Chef, Texas on Wed.</p>
<p>P.S. Thanks for the “… interesting ‘behind the scenes’ tidbit”!</p>
<p>I will watch Next Iron Chef. I agree with Sybbie. We watch Chopped and they can be harsh.</p>
<p>My money is on Marcus Samuelsson for Next Iron Chef. Agree with prior posters about judges being harsh on Chopped, particularly Alex. (Interesting what you watch at the gym!)</p>
<p>It is interesting to watch the overlap. Chiarello, Faulkner, Samuelsson were all on Top Chef Masters (Marcus won his season) Mendelsohn was on Top Chef & Top Chef all stars.</p>
<p>Poetgirl, you can always catch Iron Chef at one of the later times tonight (I plan to DVR the later time to watch Good Wife) and and during the week. It will come on again next weekend.</p>
<p>I really admire Marcus, but rather not seem him “cheapen” himself on Food Network. Bravo somehow seems to leave it’s chefs with more dignity. …not sure about what the deal is with the OTHER reality shows on Bravo.</p>
<p>good call, sybbie.</p>
<p>Good Wife is by far my favorite show on TV.</p>
<p>That was close!</p>
<p>We finally got the chance to watch it last night. Pretty exciting format! </p>
<p>I wasn’t sure about the ‘showdown’ idea at first, but it seemed to work. </p>
<p>It is interesting because I love the Next Iron Chef series, but I rarely watch the Iron Chef America show, as it just seems too long.</p>
<p>They are not very many likeable chefs in this edition. </p>
<p>Although they probably will be “protected” I cannot wait to see thee crass Anne Burrell and whining Alex Guarnaschelli sent packing. The same for Mr. Muscle, Robert Irvine who offered the silly XXX Impossible series. They are so annoying. </p>
<p>From the Chopped series, Marcus Samuelsson should be no match for Geoffrey Zakarian, who should go far. Elizabeth Falkner should join Spike Mendelsohn soon, but probablybe kept for a few weeks because the show always seem to have one of her type. Beau MacMillan fits the Iron Chef profile, but seems quite limited. </p>
<p>Chuck Hughes is a dark horse and at least is not handicapped by the annoying attitude of the other FN regulars. If the show does not succumb to favoritism it should be a race between Michael Chiarello and Zakarian. But then, we know what they did with Chef Tsai last year when they picked the last of the Mohawks for the show. :)</p>
<p>All in all, this will be a yawner and only interesting to see Alex and the other untalented overhyped chefs squirm when dispatched. I really do not see how the Iron Chef show can slow its demise after adding people like Garces and Forgionne to their line-up.</p>
<p>^ you know I love you, but wow…way to Debbie Downer! N e way…new Chopped tonight…</p>
<p>Top Chef</p>
<p>I liked the new “play-in” model for the first show this season</p>
<p>I was a little tired of seeing who could chop things better. Since everyone had better be able to chop onions, by now. ;)</p>
<p>Lots of chefs from Chicago got put through. So, that’s fun for us.</p>
<p>I watched both shows and am excited about both. I also think Marcus Samuelson will surprise ayone who did not see him win TC-Masters. He pulled things out on that show that were amazing, and he has the cooking competition thing down pat.</p>
<p>While watching the TC Texas- I was happily surprised to see so many people that actually look like chefs in the group. The older women, the tattoos on the guys, the general unkempt look on a few is what I know in a kitchen. In other years they were all so pretty! I think I will enjoy this.</p>
<p>Muscle Chef gone! Good.</p>
<p>Top Chef rules because Padma is gorgeous…</p>
<p>Is there cooking on that show?</p>