https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/nov/02/food-network-alton-brown-good-eats-sequel
Alton Brown's Good Eats to get online sequel, Food Network star reveals
Host uses Facebook Live to discuss with fans his plans for internet show:
I want freedom to do what I want and say what I want
Alton Brown of the Food Network has a new project on the way.
Nicole Puglise
Wednesday 2 November 2016 12.32 EDT
The cult favorite cooking show Good Eats is coming back. Well, basically.
A few weeks ago, the Food Network host Alton Brown teased a new internet
venture of his. I call it a cooking show, he announced in a video on
Instagram, and hell be taking time off from his current gig as host of the
networks Cutthroat Kitchen.
The video was filmed from inside a microwave, reminiscent of the camera
angles on Good Eats.
I think those of you that are Good Eats fans know exactly, precisely, why
I did that, Brown said in a subsequent Facebook Live video. The cooking
show he alluded to will be essentially a sequel, a follow-up to a program
called Good Eats. It will premiere sometime next year, according to
Refinery29.
Good Eats first aired on Food Network in 1999. In each episode, Brown
examined a new recipe or ingredient, the science behind it, the proper
tools to use and its history.
Brown said he wanted to do the show on the internet for more freedom. I
want freedom to do what I want and say what I want and work with the food
that I want without being concerned about what a larger corporate entity
might or might not want from that, he said. When Good Eats aired on Food
Network, he said he wasnt allowed to cover certain subjects, such as
cooking rabbit, liver or chicken gizzards. The channel also refused to let
him use the metric system, he said.
With paper and pencil in hand, he took down ideas from his commenters
during the Facebook Live video on what they would like to see covered over
the course of an hour-long video dishes such as steaks, homemade tofu or
smoked meat.
Brown also asked fans for their opinions on him hosting a possible
late-night variety show on Food Network. Im going to move forward with
Food Network on doing a late-night variety talk show, he said, after
receiving affirmative responses from fans. He has hosted a few other shows
on the network, in addition to Good Eats and Cutthroat Kitchen.
Browns latest cookbook, EveryDayCook: This Time Its Personal, came out in
September. His live tour, Eat Your Science, kicked off earlier this year
and comes to New York City later this month.
The Guardian has contacted Brown and Food Network for comment.
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