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The Food Network is aiming to be more than Bobby Flay and Guy’s Grocery Games. It’s now in the movie business. Ree Drummond will costar in Candy Coated Christmas, the first original scripted film to appear on discovery+. The production is a collaboration between the streaming service and Food Network. In the film…

The upcoming premiere of Buddy vs. Duff on the Food Network will feature a competition between Cake Boss reality star Buddy Valastro and his fellow baker, Duff Goldman of Cake Masters. But no matter who wins, Valastro will come out ahead. That’s because he thought at one time he’d never bake again after a gruesome…

Mark Peel, the influential Los Angeles chef who founded Campanile with his ex-wife Nancy Silverton, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 66. It was reported that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer just nine days ago. Peel appeared on Top Chef Masters and as a judge on Top Chef in 2009 and 2010. Peel…

EXCLUSIVE: Competition series from Kal Penn and ice cream manufacturers Ben & Jerry's are part of Food Network and Cooking Channel's latest slate of originals. The Discovery-owned networks are plotting over 30 new series and more than 25 returning series for the second half of the year as part of 400 hour of…

EXCLUSIVE: Chef Cliff Crooks will return to Food Network for another season of Chef Boot Camp. Food Network renewed the Crooks-hosted series for its sophomore season nearly a week after it wrapped its first. Chef Boot Camp, which premiered April 8, follows Crooks as he helps three restaurant chefs, who have been…

A Columbia, Missouri man who once appeared on the Food Network’s Restaurant Impossible show has been arrested and charged with murder in a four-year-old cold case. Jeffrey McWilliams was arrested Tuesday on charges of second degree murder, first degree robbery, and armed criminal action in relation to the murder of…

The husband of Ariel Robinson, winner of the Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America Season 20 competition, had his bond set at $150,000 Friday by the presiding judge in the case. Jerry “Austin” Robinson will be under house arrest, have GPS monitoring, and will have no contact with anyone under 18 years old as a…

The Food Network is about to launch a true “high concept” television series. Chopped 420 is a spin-off of the popular Chopped series, in which four chefs battle it out through appetizer, main course and dessert stages using picnic baskets filled with challenging foods. As the name of the new series suggests, it will…

A former champion on the Food Network reality series Worst Cooks in America told a bail hearing judge Friday that the 3-year-old girl in her custody died after drinking too much water. Ariel Robinson, 29, and her husband, Jerry, 34, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, have been charged with homicide by child abuse in the…

A funeral for the three-year-old child allegedly killed by the champion of Season 20 of the Food Network reality series Worst Cooks in America was held this week. The biological parents of Victoria Rose Smith held what was described as an emotional funeral for the child. Food Network star Ariel Robinson, 29, and…

The Food Network has scrubbed its latest season of reality series Worst Cooks In America after its champion has been arrested for a child’s murder. Ariel Robinson, age 29, was charged Tuesday along with her husband, Jerry Robinson, in the death of a 3-year-old girl in South Carolina. They face counts of homicide by…

Celebrated cake designer and Food Network host and star Kerry Vincent died January 2 from an undisclosed illness. The co-founder of the annual Oklahoma Sugar Art Show was 75. The news of Vincent’s passing was announced on the Oklahoma Sugar Art Show’s official Facebook page. “It is with great sadness that I have to…