Last month, Kristin over at TV Squad told you about Jamie Oliver's new Food Network show, Jamie At Home, which premieres on January 6 at 10pm. Now comes word that Oliver will appear on Iron Chef America to battle veteran chef Mario Batali. The episode will air on the same night, just before Oliver's new series debuts. It will be his first appearance on the show.
This is good news. Oliver deserves another cooking show. He was on Martha Stewart's show recently and really won over the crowd with his fast cooking technique and personality (even if he did, I believe, exhaust Martha a bit, and that's not easy to do). He even had a woman in the audience help him with the meal he was making. I'm not sure if the new show will have a studio audience, but he could be good in front of one.
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12-13-2007 @ 3:56PM
Jason said...
Jamie Oliver is a f*cking slob
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12-13-2007 @ 4:20PM
GREATNECK said...
Uh, the slob here is, jason, garbage, be careful driving, never noooo...
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12-13-2007 @ 4:44PM
Matt said...
Jamie at Home is literally that. He's at home in the UK and he's preparing fresh ingredients out of his organic garden. He has a gardener employed fulltime, and his setup looks pretty incredible. No audience. The show has been playing in Canada for a while.
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12-13-2007 @ 4:51PM
Jason Brink said...
GREATNECK, use, more, commas,
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12-13-2007 @ 7:53PM
Tony2X said...
Nooooooooooooooooooooo! I thought I had escaped Oliver by moving to America but here he is in all his glory on the bumwine of food telly. Oh well, another reason to hit up PBS!
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12-13-2007 @ 8:24PM
Ray said...
I liked his first show but his second show was so f'ing annoying with those stupid cam angles and hand held cam jiggling... so dated and hard to watch... unless it's a Bourne movie
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12-14-2007 @ 10:31AM
Patrick said...
Jamie at Home is by far my favorite show of Oliver's. Truly inspiring stuff.
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12-14-2007 @ 2:18PM
Mike said...
I liked Naked Chef, have watched a several of his At Home shows. I wish his Italian Escape and School Dinners shows would be aired here. His work with kid's school meals have earned him a permanent place in my heart.
That said, I'm a big Batali fan as well, so seeing the two of them in Iron Chef America sounds great. Makes me smile that they'll let him really battle it out, not like last year where they had to prop up Paula and Rachael with help to keep them from looking too bad. (How bad can it be if someone who has a show about 30 minute meals can't do a 60 minute meal show on her own? )
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12-14-2007 @ 6:34PM
Kat K. said...
Anyone know when Mario's final battle will be, or has he decided not to pack up his clogs?
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12-14-2007 @ 8:20PM
Donna said...
Jamie is my favorite TV chef. Thanks for posting this. I'm so happy to learn he'll be back on TV! He makes great tasting food simply.
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12-16-2007 @ 11:22AM
FM said...
This is great news! I hope the new show includes montages of him riding his scooter to the cheese shop.
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2-03-2008 @ 10:04AM
Stanley Stephens said...
coming back to Jamie's interview this morning on breakfast, we are aware that he did not have time to rehearse his act, but anyone could see that he was searching very hard for answers to give the broadcasters, in fact he repeated himself over and over again with his mixed up jargon, and the cleaver wayss that he get out of tight corners when questions are put to him, seem totally false, I think that he is in the wrong job, he would be better placed as an MP or in front of an audience goggle eyed woman that cannot cook. sent 12 noon 11.1.08
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