Thursday, March 15, 2018
Food Network Brings Out Sitcom Stars; Alexis Bledel Joins Popular Hulu Series
Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition is back on Sunday, April 15 at 9pm (all times ET/PT) with a new star-studded cast of cooking disasters who are determined to improve their kitchen game, including sitcom stars of past and present. In the six-episode season, food masters Anne Burrell and Tyler Florence each lead a team of recruits through an intense culinary boot camp where only the most improved cook is left standing and wins $25,000 for the charity of their choice and bragging rights for their team leader. This season's celebrity recruits are: Catherine Bach (The Dukes of Hazzard), Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite), Nolan Gould (Modern Family), La Toya Jackson, Oscar Nunez (The Office), Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers) and Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills, 90210).
In the first episode, Anne and Tyler immediately throw the celebrity recruits into their first challenge after they arrive. They must cook their signature dishes so the chefs can assess their skills, or lack thereof, in the kitchen. Then the chefs teach the celebrities how to make a Hollywood-worthy breakfast dish, which proves to be disastrous for these clueless cooks. After Anne and Tyler choose their teams, the celebrities are anxious to officially start their culinary training. Upcoming episodes feature a fish and chips challenge, pizza-from-scratch battle, guest appearance from last season's runner-up Melissa Peterman and an "Aluminum Foil Chef" competition. In the finale on Sunday, May 20th at 9pm, the two most improved recruits must cook a restaurant quality meal for guest judges Rocco DiSpirito, Cady Huffman and Aarthi Sampath, who will decide which one takes home $25,000 for the charity of their choice and bragging rights for their team leader.
Alexis Bledel is joining the second season of The Handmaid's Tale. The series will launch on Hulu on April 25 with two episodes, and continue thereafter with one episode a week for a total of thirteen episodes. Alexis plays Emily, a college professor who was a mother married to another woman before the war, has endured horrific punishment as Offred's Handmaid companion Ofglen. Cynical and hell-bent on revenge, she still treats the victims of Gilead with tenderness and compassion. The Emmy-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. "Gilead is within you" is a favorite saying of Aunt Lydia. In Season Two, Offred and all our characters will fight against - or succumb to - this dark truth.
The Handmaid's Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, Madeline Brewer, O-T Fagbenle and Amanda Brugel.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Tuesday, May 19
none scheduled
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of May 18)
Tuesday, May 19
- Wanda Sykes (The Upshaws/The New Adventures of Old Christine/Wanda at Large) - Catch Wanda on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Jake Johnson (Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed/Minx/New Girl) - Jake appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- John Travolta (Welcome Back, Kotter) - John stops by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Ana Gasteyer (American Auto/People of Earth/Lady Dynamite/Suburgatory) - Ana is a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Chelsea Handler (Are You There, Chelsea?) - Chelsea appears on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Caroline Rhea (Sydney to the Max/Sabrina, the Teenage Witch/Pride & Joy) and Finesse Mitchell (Outmatched/A.N.T. Farm) - Caroline and Finesse are guests on a repeat of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen at at 12:37am on CBS.
- Ronny Chieng (Young Rock/Ronny Chieng: International Student) - Ronny hosts Comedy Central's The Daily Show at 11pm.
- Beanie Feldstein (What We Do in the Shadows) - Beanie talks about Teeny and Tilly on CBS Mornings sometime between 7-9am.
- Jennifer Tilly (Out of Practice) - Jennifer chats about her play The Adding Machine on a repeat of Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your local listings.
- Fabrizio Guido (Running Point) - Fabrizio drops into Sherri's Laugh Lounge on Sherri, so check your local listings.
- Olivia Munn (Perfect Couples) - The Drew Barrymore Show has a little bit extra from Drew's interview with Olivia, so check your local listings.
- Tony Danza (Taxi/Who's the Boss?/Hudson Street/The Tony Danza Show) - The Drew Barrymore Show has more from Tony playing memory bank at the news desk with Drew, so check your local listings.
- Tom Cavanagh (Scrubs/Ed) - Tom is a guest on New York Living on WPIX in New York at 10:05am.
- Billy Eichner (Friends from College/Difficult People/Parks and Recreation) and Kevin Jonas (Jonas) - Billy and Kevin can be heard on the Morning Mash Up on SiriusXM.
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