Giada De Laurentiis was added to the panel for the eighth season, as was Alton Brown.įor seasons 1-7, the challenges in the show serve to both test and develop abilities that will be most useful for the contestant who will ultimately appear on their own show. Since the fourth season, the judging panel has consistently been Tuschman, Fogelson, and Bobby Flay, a chef who stars in Throwdown and Iron Chef America, among other shows. In the third season, a different guest judge would appear every week to assist them. Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, two Food Network executives, have been the core members of the judging panel since the beginning of its use. The format for judging and selecting a winner has changed over the years, as viewers were given the chance to vote for the winner in earlier seasons, but they are now selected exclusively by the panel of judges. The winner's pilot (or something similar to it) goes on to become an actual show on the network, although the staying power of this show and its star has varied greatly from season to season. Contestants are eliminated every week until two or three finalists remain, who go on to star in a pilot that is screened during the season finale. In the first two seasons, eight entrants were considered (with one team of two appearing in the first season, for a total of nine participants), but the number of entrants has since been increased to twelve and then to fifteen for season 8, then cut back to twelve again for seasons 9 and 10. A reality show launched by the Food Network ( who else?) in 2005, The Next Food Network Star pits a number of potential celebrity chefs against each other in a variety of challenges to test their skill at cooking and interacting with people- both in person and through the camera.
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