Food Network serves up new shows Cable network unveils eight at upfront By STUART LEVINE HOLLYWOOD -- Coming off of its highest-rated quarter ever,
Food Network unveiled eight new primetime shows at its upfront event in Gotham on Tuesday. The cabler's focus on cooking competitions continues in the upcoming programming slate. "Chefs vs. City" is a foodie version of "The Amazing Race" in which notable chefs Chris Cosentino and
Aaron Sanchez take on a pair of local chefs in a different city each week, vying in a series of five challenges. Skein begins in July.
Launching in the fall is "Extreme Cuisine With Jeff Corwin." Corwin, whose former series "The Jeff Corwin Experience" appeared on Food sister net
Animal Planet, will head to foreign locales to taste native cuisines.
"We don't want to overdo it with competition shows, but viewers like it," president
Brooke Johnson told
Daily Variety. "We sort of have a bifurcated strategy. We have the 'In the kitchen' blocks -- Saturday and Sunday morning, and weekdays -- which are as important to us as primetime. We're able to develop new shows and draw on talent from the kitchen."
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