Rick Kushman: Eat and run? Yeah, it's a show Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
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Before we get to anything important, and, yeah, there is important stuff in TV, I have to get this out.
The Food Network apparently is working on a show that would combine speed eating with the scrambling of "The Amazing Race," and it will probably be called – drum roll, please – "Eat the Clock."
If you like the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, you'll love this. Possibly.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, in this show, teams of contestants would scramble around Los Angeles looking for participating restaurants. If it's anything like "The Amazing Race," they'll totally disdain local customs. When the contestants get there, they'll go into speed-eating mode, then have to ride a zip line across a waterfall.
OK, made the last part up. If things go well, the show could premiere in early 2009.
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Speaking of food shows, and, no, we're not to the important stuff yet, lots of people have asked if there's a place to find the original Japanese version of the ridiculously entertaining show "Iron Chef."
Yup, on Fine Living Network (Channel 203 for most Comcast digital cable customers, 232 on DirecTV, 113 on Dish) at 11 o'clock weeknights. ... 
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