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Viewers Gobble Up Food Shows

  • USA Today, Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:31 PM
Wiewers are eating up food TV shows. Fox has made a cottage industry out of Gordon Ramsay ("Hell's Kitchen," Kitchen Nightmare"). Bravo's "Top Chef" and TLC's "Cake Boss" are their networks' top series. Scripps Networks, which saw prime-time ratings for its Food Network spike 29% this year to a new record, is turning its underachieving Fine Living Network into a 24-hour Cooking Channel next May.

The Food Network airs a Jan. 3 "Iron Chef" special, featuring star chefs Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford and an appearance by the first lady. Programmers say a recessionary trend toward home entertaining has driven the genre.

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