Celebrity Awards Presenters Announced for 6th TASTE AWARDS
We are pleased to announce the celebrity award presenter lineup for the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS.
They are Alie and Georgia (Cooking Channel, Food Network), Bobby Bognar (History Channel, Bio Channel), Andres Izquieta (Esquire Network), Michelle Harris (ION Life Network), Chef Ashley James (Public Television, Four Seasons), Kara Birkenstock (Myx TV), and Jolene Sugarbaker (YouTube).
Industry Updates – October 2014
- Gordon Ramsay announces ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ to end after 10 years (NewsDay)
- Congrats to Jolene Sugarbaker: Celebrating 8 Years on YouTube with her Trailer Park Cooking Show!
- New summer series Young & Hungry premiers on ABC Family with Emily Osment (trailer)
- Vice Media “Munchies”
Farang, their Andy Ricker documentary, is dropping on 7/7 - Time Warner in Talks to Buy Stake in Vice Media for over $1 Billion (Variety)
- ‘Top Chef Duels’ Premieres in August
- Esquire Network’s Knife Fight, Brew Dogs, and Best Bars in America return this summer
- TLC is planning more than 500 hours of original programming in 2014 alone, including 44 n
ew and returning series (Starcasm) - Helen Mirren stars in foodie film “The 100 Foot Journey”, Produced by StevenSpielberg and Oprah Winfrey, and Dreamworks with Participant Media
Industry Updates – August 2014
- Rumble to Distribute FMN’s ‘Celebrity Webchefs’ (VideoInk)
- Cooking Channel to Premiere New Chocolatier Series SWEET JULIA (Broadway World)
- Canada Known for Good Taste, Award-winning Content about Food (Mediacaster Magazine)
- Helen Mirren stars in foodie film “The 100 Foot Journey”, Produced by StevenSpielberg and Oprah Winfrey, and Dreamworks with Participant Media
- Lessons of Big TV Sink In at Digital Content Newfronts; “A 1/2 hour show is the coin of the realm right now” (AdAge)
- ‘Epic Meal Time‘ Pimps Its New Cookbook With A Rap Video (Tubefilter)
- “Cooking with Granny” web series has met its crowdsource funding goals on Kickstarter
- Award Nominee ChatChowTV: Fine dining: what if Apple and Prada made luxury food? (Exhibition)
- Epicurious Kicks Off Web Series With Big Gay Ice Cream’s History (Braiser)
- 11 Powerful Netflix Food Documentaries That Will Change How You Think About Food (PolicyMic)
- Ovation TV to premiere The Art Of: Make Up episode
- Vice, FremantleMedia get Munchies in Cannes (Stream Daily)
- Reserve Channel makes its mark (channel)
- BET Networks to re-brand Centric cable channel as a destination for black women (Target Market)
- Short film No More Tiaras stars Dylan Penn, Langley Fox Hemingway, Stephanie LaCava and Adwoa Aboah
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Ora.TV Inks Digital Development Deal with William Shatner for Brown Bag Wine Tasting series (VideoInk)
