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The show’s about finding really amazing chefs and showing what they can do, and we got to do that in this season. I don’t think there was anything pathetic about people in this season. They were all really good. The standard now is so much higher than it was at the beginning.
— Robert Philpot
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source: TV Squad
S06E09) The thing that sets Top Chef apart from similar shows such as Project Runway or Hell's Kitchen, is the level of professionalism on display. While both of those shows have strong contestants, on the whole, the pool seems more amateurish than those on Top Chef. This was clearly eviden...
Published Thu, Oct 22
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source: TV Squad
Amid the real housewives and matchmakers, millionaire real estate brokers and house flippers, there is one unscripted series that has been top shelf on Bravo. With Project Runway not on Lifetime, the best of Bravo's reality is Top Chef. In the five seasons past and the current season playi...
Published Tue, Oct 6
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source: reality blurred
Top Chef has been renewed for a seventh season, which is unsurprising considering it's Bravo's biggest and best competition series now that Project Runway has left for Lifetime. Bravo Announces Pick-Up of "Top Chef," Season Seven [Bravo press release] Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi Is Pregn...
Published Mon, Oct 5
Christian Siriano, other Bravo stars to get own shows 
source: The Swamp
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Published Thu, Oct 1
Trust in Reality TV: A Four-Letter Word? - A Cultural Learnings Reality Roundup 
source: memles (WordPress)
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Published Sat, Sep 19
Hit me with your favorite sendoff lines ... 
source: The Swamp
Survivor: "The tribe has spoken." The Biggest Loser: "You are not The Biggest Loser." Top Chef: "Please pack your knives and go." America's Next Top Model: "You're no longer in the running to become America's Next Top Model." (Succinct, no?) Project Runway: "You're out."
Published Wed, Sep 9
Chicago chefs sizzle on Bravo's 'Top Chef Masters' 
source: Chicago Tribune
United States Top Chef Masters" comes from the crack Magical Elves production company, which also whips up "Top Chef" and used to make "Project Runway" for Bravo. ("Runway" will debut in its new home, Lifetime, in August.) "Masters" has the Elves' signature snappy ...
Published Wed, Jun 17
Reality TV Listings: February 21, 2009 
source: Reality TV Magazine
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Published Sat, Feb 21