topic Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016 in Kitchen

Food Network Star - 2016 - SPOILERS

chickenbutt — Tue, 17 May 2016 20:04:56 GMT

Is anybody watching this pre-season piece? What they did was to bring back a handful of contestants from several of the previous seasons.

They all compete and ONE of the is supposed to end up winning this, and then the new season will begin and the winner of this will get to compete in the new season.

The first thing I noticed, in the promos, was that Penny was coming back. Groan! I thought 'oh joy, more of that'. BUT THEN - this guy Matthew is also back.

You may remember him as this nauseating, smirking, little jerkwad who not only fancied himself better than everybody else, but can't seem to stop himself from telling everybody else how bad they are. No sportsmanship. No class. No maturity.

He reminds me of that smirky Pharma Boy dude - always with this condescending smirk. He sure makes Penny a pleasure to watch and I thought she was going to be what made me turn away!

If he wins this and goes on to compete in the new season of FNS, I think I might just be out. (fingers crossed) I hate to wish anybody any kind of ill-will but he is just so awful!

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

Mothertrucker — Mon, 16 May 2016 22:54:09 GMT

@chickenbutt I watched it, and the thing at got me was that none of them had changed much, the ones who froze on camera, etc, still did..

The two you mentioned of course are the two I thought were the worst as well..Matthew didn't seem QUITE as bad as I remembered, and Penny, well, she is a few years older, with maybe a tiny bit more insight...after watching Matthew last night, it is clear he doesn't report to normal social interpersonal "cues" making me wonder if he might have some problems in that area...like maybe somewhere on the autism spectrum....

anyway, it's a pretty clever gimmick...I watched it....Valerie and Tyler seem a lot more forgiving than Giada and Bobby...

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Mothertrucker — Mon, 16 May 2016 22:57:00 GMT

LOL, CB, I am certain there will be NEW contestants we will detest this year!!!!

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chickenbutt — Mon, 16 May 2016 22:59:57 GMT

I'm just watching last night's episode now. Fingers crossed but I imagine they keep him around for a while for the drama (gack!).

I agree that Penny doesn't seem so bad. I like Dom and the other ladies. I cannot remember everybody's name yet.

You know, I just like nice people. I like people who have sportsmanship and maturity. People who act like total jerks are the ones I just cannot tolerate. I know that others love the drama, so I'm in the minority. But I wouldn't have called that guy back to re-compete in a million years.

Plus, the guy talks in 'hashtags' and that is annoying as heck.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

chickenbutt — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:00:23 GMT

mothertrucker wrote:
LOL, CB, I am certain there will be NEW contestants we will detest this year!!!!

Ha! Well, there's always at least one.

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pdlinda — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:04:07 GMT

I also watched and was less than impressed. It seems like FN is heavy of "retreds" of people who gained some camera experience and want to grab another few minutes of "fame."

Last season's NFNS was a real "bust" to me with a lot of gimmicks and very little real cooking Harkening back to the earlier seasons when Guy Fieri, Melissa D'Arabian and even Demaris Phillips competed, at least there was some great cooking and less of the ridiculous "theatrics."

Also, Giada DeLaurentis' attire last season was inappropriate to the extreme and that further detracted from the essence of what the show is supposedly intended to promote.

I noticed that the winners of the last few seasons didn't even get a show of their own. I think I saw last season's winner, Eddie Jackson, promoed as host of some kids BBQ show but nothing that highlighted his cooking skills....maybe intentionally.

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nomless — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:13:25 GMT

@Mothertrucker wrote:
LOL, CB, I am certain there will be NEW contestants we will detest this year!!!!

I know there are 2 contestants that I like.....2 of the contestants on the upcoming show are the winner and runner up (Erin and Damiano) on the Holiday Baking show the was on last fall (IIRC)3. I liked both of them, and they were good on camera. If they can cook savory as well as they bake and if they can present info on camera as well as they can casually chat on camera, they might be contenders.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

chickenbutt — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:16:39 GMT

Re: end of last night's episode -

Wo, I didn't see that coming! I thought Penny was doing pretty decent and definitely better than some. No, I've NEVER belonged to the Penny Fan Club, but I didn't expect to see her get the boot.

I guess we get to keep on seeing Smirky McJerkerson for a while.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

GCR18 — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:32:54 GMT

I watched it last Sunday. Last night was a repeat. I don't know why, but I will watch it. I wish they would put these winners in prime time instead of Sunday at 8am or Tuesday at 11pm. They really could use some decent shows on that network.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

chickenbutt — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:38:19 GMT

Last night was an original episode. It was the second episode of this short series ('Comeback Kitchen') that precedes the next full season. It was on at 8pm here, in Pacific Time, so YMMV.

The new full season will begin right after a winner is chosen from this, I believe.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

Mothertrucker — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:45:34 GMT

CB, glad you saw it for yourself..I realized after your first post that you hadn't...yet..

BTW, last night in So Cal, I Saw that episode ..it was episode 2 , they DID replay episode 1 again from last week earlier in the evening....

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

nomless — Mon, 16 May 2016 23:57:24 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
Last night was an original episode. It was the second episode of this short series ('Comeback Kitchen') that precedes the next full season. It was on at 8pm here, in Pacific Time, so YMMV.

The new full season will begin right after a winner is chosen from this, I believe.

The new FNS main series starts next Sunday, 5/22. So apparently the comeback star will join mid-season....or maybe they'll pick a comeback winner next week????

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

scotnovel — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:03:49 GMT

I won't watch because I can't stand Bobby Flay or Giada. Her incessant smiling seems so phoney and drives me nuts. I won't watch anything with him since he was sued by workers at more than one restaurant for cheating them out of wages and tips. Although, he denied any wrongdoing, the suit was settled when he agreed to pay over $800,000.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

deeva — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:06:32 GMT

Food Network Star has become a joke. The winners rarely get shows that last more than six or seven episodes. And last seasons winner Eddie Jackson, is basically hosting a competition show that has nothing to do with his point of view which was Jamaican cuisine.

I think the judges pick a winner before the first episode airs.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

chickenbutt — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:12:20 GMT

nomless wrote:
chickenbutt wrote:
Last night was an original episode. It was the second episode of this short series ('Comeback Kitchen') that precedes the next full season. It was on at 8pm here, in Pacific Time, so YMMV.

The new full season will begin right after a winner is chosen from this, I believe.

The new FNS main series starts next Sunday, 5/22. So apparently the comeback star will join mid-season....or maybe they'll pick a comeback winner next week????

Thanks for the heads up. I just looked at the Tivo Guide for next Sunday and it looks like this 'Comeback' deal airs at 8pm next Sunday with the first episode of S12 following it, at 9pm.

There must be several weeks of overlap unless they start eliminating more than one at a time.

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

hummermom — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:58:25 GMT

I'm watching, too. And I sure hope that smug Matthew gets eliminated. What a tool he is!

I'm rooting for Dom, but I doubt that he'll make it. Such good food, but he keeps getting off track.

I just started watching Food Network Star last season (thanks to your recommendation!), so I'm not familiar with most of the contestants on this Comeback Kitchen series.

As far as the elimination works, I was confused at first. But I think what's going to happen is that they pick a "winner," rather than eliminate all but one contestant.

I'll be watching next week!

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

genniem — Tue, 17 May 2016 05:39:09 GMT

Glad ~~Penny is gone She thinks she's so much better than others I've seen her on other shows and she's always nasty~~

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

cookinfreak — Tue, 17 May 2016 15:57:33 GMT

I'm starting to wonder if they are bringing former contestants back because there have been so many of this type of show on that they have run out of people! HA! I haven't watched either of these shows yet this time as I have had something going on the evenings it is aired. I'm sure I can get caught up easily enough if I care to.

I like FN on Sat mornings cuz it's actually clooking shows. Ree, Trisha and others. I miss Good Eats a lot as well as Alton

cookin

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

chickenbutt — Tue, 17 May 2016 20:06:11 GMT

Since somebody decided to post a spoiler in this, formerly non-spoiler, thread, I revised the thread title to indicate that there are spoilers.

I would only hope that if somebody wants to post a spoiler of something that is not yet aired, they would respectfully spoiler tag it. Thanks!

Re: Food Network Star - New Season 2016

momtochloe — Tue, 17 May 2016 21:00:57 GMT

@cookinfreak wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if they are bringing former contestants back because there have been so many of this type of show on that they have run out of people! HA! I haven't watched either of these shows yet this time as I have had something going on the evenings it is aired. I'm sure I can get caught up easily enough if I care to.
I like FN on Sat mornings cuz it's actually clooking shows. Ree, Trisha and others. I miss Good Eats a lot as well as Alton
cookin

@cookinfreak if you get the Cooking Channel they run a two hour block of Alton's show in the early hours of the morning. I agree they are fun to watch and very informative.

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