Life imitates potential art, past opinion
This is just too weird.
I’m signed up for National Novel Writing Month, but I’m still mulling potential plots or topics for my novel.
One such potential plot was that of a small-town restaurant chef who gets to enter a “Top Chef” / “Next Iron Chef” style competition. I planned to set this at a fictional counterpart to the Food Network, and I figured I’d just call it “the Cooking Channel.”
Well, Scripps Network — the parent company of Food Network — has decided to retool their Fine Living Network, which I imagine has suffered from the current climate of frugality. Now, the channel will emphasize the type of how-to cooking shows that have been somewhat de-emphasized at Food Network in favor of competitive shows.
The network’s new name? You guessed it.
Actually, I have thought for years that they should do something like this — not using the Fine Living network, but starting a new upper-tier digital channel, the way that VH1 did with VH1 Classic or Cartoon Network did with Boomerang, to mollify the original viewers turned off by the gradual drift away from the parent channel’s original format. They have a huge library of how-to cooking shows that could be repurposed for this.
Don’t believe me? I wrote a newspaper column in June saying so.
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