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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:49 pm
Thanks Darrellh.I'll bring my dd over there and check it out.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 8:40 pm
Sorry to his fans, but that boy was getting on my last nerve. Yes, I well remember Bobby Flay standing on his counter at the end of his Iron Chef competitions. However, this kid is not Bobby Flay, and the competition wasn't anywhere near finished when he began wasting time with the posturing and running around in circles touching everyone's hands. The fact that he had time to do that makes me wonder how the difficulty of his menu compared to those of the other two contestants. Well, now that I've seen the Patti LaBelle episode I guess I can skip the rest of this. I think I'd enjoy it more if they tossed out the "celebrities" and had the chefs compete directly against each other. This is the second time I've watched a reality show where the experts were more recognizable to me than most of the celebrities (Skating With Celebrities being the first).
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Zummat
Member
01-31-2006
| Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 12:38 am
I tried to watch this show too but didn't make it through the first episode. It just didn't grab me and I thought it was rather boring. I guess I don't really care if celebrities can cook or not.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 4:48 pm
NBC cancels "Celebrity Cooking Showdown" LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has taken "Celebrity Cooking Showdown" off its primetime menu after three nights of abysmal ratings. The reality series was originally scheduled to run five consecutive nights beginning April 17, but the network shelved "Showdown" on Thursday with two servings still to go. The show averaged a measly 1.8 rating among adults 18-49 demographic. Tuesday opposite "American Idol" was particularly pathetic, with NBC bottoming out with a 1.1 rating and 3 share in the 9 p.m. hour. "Idol" did an 11.0/31, by contrast. NBC is replacing "Showdown" with repeats of "Will & Grace" and "My Name Is Earl" on Thursday and "Deal or No Deal" on Friday. The fourth episode of "Showdown" will air on NBC.com. Yahoo
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Woofy
Member
08-09-2001
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 5:25 pm
OMG ... Amen!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 6:23 pm
rofl ...
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:02 pm
Oh thank goodness! I was afraid I was the only one who hated this show! LOL
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 4:20 am
Not that I'm defending the show or anything, I thought it was awful, but it was only supposed to run for 5 nights as it was...it is hard to believe that after all the heavy promotion, they didn't even air the whole thing. Even worse, this didn't even rate a move to one of its other networks (like Bravo), it was banished to online status. Wow!
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 7:24 am
I am not surprised. I watched the first 10 minutes and last 5 of one show. Just terrible. One woman was eliminated because a judge did not like the salty cheese in the steak. She was given that recipe to make! ????
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:44 am
Cdbga, I agree that was pretty harsh of NBC. The show was certainly far from great...but they could have at least ran the last episode where the final 3 competed. Heck, I was just happy to enter the drawing for the "Dream Kitchen." (That would have been great for the house I recently bought with all the older appliances included!) But..alas, no luck! LOL
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:59 am
Just heard that NBC will be showing the last 2 episodes tomorrow (Sat.) night from 7:00-9:00. Wonder if they'll still be giving away more kitchens??? LOL
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Nancypj
Member
08-17-2001
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 12:05 pm
The NBC site says it will run a "special REbroacast" of the finale at 8:00 tomorrow followed by the show where the winner is announced at 9:00. And the site no longer has a link to watch the finale online (the one that was supposed to be on last night). Guess they got a lot of flack for the way they handled it. After the way they handled Last Comic Standing last year, what they did with this show is not too surprising.
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Robok
Member
10-28-2003
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 6:49 pm
Wow, I had to check if the show was on the aready been canceled network.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 8:56 pm
Besides the constant screaming on this show, the reality of how much chef prepared food is touched by human hands is a bit disturbing. Tom Arnold sweating like a pig over his food. I don't know, it just made actually seeing this..something we don't want to see. Best left behind closed doors.
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Glenrie
Member
03-24-2006
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 9:31 pm
If we're making a disturbing list, how about that man (don't know who he was) cooking in a sleeveless shirt and constantly holding his arms up above his head? ewwww
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 3:34 am
How is it a special "re" broadcast, if they never broadcast it in the first place? Or does webcasting count as a "broadcast" now? Ugghhh, I can't keep up with these people and their line-up changes. Years ago, I worked at an NBC affiliate, I can tell you that a lot of work is required to pull off complete schedule changes on such short notice...it would impact the local commercial sales, the program logs would have to be rebuilt (among other things). Sherbabe, I agree with you on all the food contact on this show being kind of gross. The funny thing is, I watch other cooking shows and have never been grossed out by the contact. When I see the Iron Chefs handling food, for example, I guess I just think they are washing up first and paying attention to the sanitation issues...maybe it's the chef's coats or something. But these celebrities? Just gross.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 9:10 am
ROFL--what brainiacs thought this show would fly in the first place? After about 20 minutes, I changed channels. Boring.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:52 pm
OK, how could we vote if we didn't see the finals until tonight? Give me Iron Chef any time!
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 7:27 pm
The "Vote" declared Cindy the winner. I was rooting for Chelsea. The master chefs all cooked but no one touched their food??? I agree - this show was BAD!!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 7:57 pm
who got to vote?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 8:28 pm
There was some disclaimer flashed on the screen at the end of the results show that said something about the voting but it left too fast for me to read it. Kind of odd... this whole thing.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 8:32 pm
Oh, I just checked their website. The finals show was shown online and folks could vote after viewing that apparently. The results show was really bizarre. You watched the three master chefs cook, and then they split to everyone wearing different clothes with two of them not even on site for the winner announcement. Are we to believe that the winner announcement was just filmed last night or today??
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 8:49 pm
well, Miss USA wasn't there if it was last night or tonight because of the pageant. I, personally, think this whole thing was fixed. Does Cindy Margolis have a show coming up on NBC or something? LOL ...
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