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EXCLUSIVE: Valerie Bertinelli will remain in the Food Network kitchen after closing a new deal with the Discovery-owned network. Bertinelli, who stars in series including Kids Baking Championship and Valerie's Home Cooking, has extended her long-term relationship with the network as well as streaming service…

Food Network and Discovery+ are cooking up a primetime cooking competition series starring chef Alex Guarnaschelli. The cable network and streamer have ordered Alex Vs. America, which will see 15 chefs from across the United States take their best shot at beating Guarnaschelli for the ultimate culinary triumph in the…

Weeks after it appeared he would be leaving the Food Network after 27 years, Bobby Flay has reached a three-year, exclusive deal with the Discovery outlet. The pact was confirmed by Courtney White, president of Food Network and streaming food content for Discovery. The new agreement includes development of new content…

Celebrity chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is set to leave the Discovery-owned cable channel after talks on a new contract broke down, sources confirmed to Deadline. According to Variety, which first reported the news, Flay’s contract expires at the end of the year, at which time Flay will exit. Talks had been…

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…