Thursday, July 11, 2019
Valerie Bertinelli to Host Food Network Series; Netflix Gets Katherine Heigl for Firefly Lane
Food brings families together, especially families who work together running restaurants, serving up some of the best dishes across the country. But, beginning on Monday, August 19, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT, some of these families will compete on Family Restaurant Rivals to prove their recipes are better than all the rest. Emmy(R) award-winning Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time, Hot in Cleveland) hosts the action of this culinary competition where family pride and $10,000 are on the line. They must endure real-life restaurant curveballs and please a panel of rotating judges including Kardea Brown, Jason Fullilove, Ray Garcia, Alex Guarnaschelli, Robert Irvine, Clinton Kelly, Antonia Lofaso, Bricia Lopez, Simon Majumdar, Christian Petroni, Courtney Rada, Aarti Sequeira and Jet Tila with delicious dishes, but only one family will be crowned the winner.
In each episode, three families face-off in two rounds of challenges requiring them to overcome obstacles and unpredictable twists, without letting family dynamics get in the way of success. Throughout 6 hourlong episodes, the competing teams tackle challenges from elevating childhood classics, to putting their own spin on meat and potatoes, and whipping up guilty pleasure desserts in their bid for the grand prize. On the premiere, Valerie tasks the families to make their restaurant's best lunch combo, but to make it more challenging they must adapt their time-tested recipe for picky eaters. Only two families make it to round 2, where they have to create an impressive noodle dish as they race against the clock. A surprise twist in the competition will leave the families reeling, and only one family will earn the $10,000 grand prize and keep their family pride.
Katherine Heigl (Suits, Grey's Anatomy) will star in Netflix's Firefly Lane, a new series based on the beloved book, as Tully Hart: a force of nature still bearing the scars of a traumatic childhood whose saving grace is her best friend, Kate, with whom she shares an unshakable bond over the course of four decades. Netflix has ordered 10 episodes for this one-hour drama. Katherine can also be seen in Suits, which is heading into its ninth and final season beginning next week (July 17). In Firefly Lane, Kate and Tully meet as young girls and become inseparable best friends throughout thirty years of ups and downs, successes and failures, depression and disappointments. When an unthinkable betrayal breaks them apart, the two women go their separate ways and it's unclear whether they will ever be able to reconcile.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Tuesday, October 13
Tyler Perry's Assisted Living - "Do The Right Thing" (BET, 9:00PM ET/PT)
After losing his job, Jeremy decides to move to the backwoods of Georgia to help his grandfather, who has purchased a rundown home for the elderly.
The Ms. Pat Show - "Hell to the Chief" (BET, 9:30PM ET/PT)
Terry shocks the family when he reveals that the Carsons will host the U.S. President for dinner, and Brandon comes home with a student who needs to be hidden from ICE.
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 12)
Tuesday, October 13
- Kate Berlant (Ghosted/Search Party) - Catch Kate on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC.
- Riz Ahmed (Bait) - Riz appears on a repeat of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at 11:35pm on NBC.
- Kenan Thompson (Kenan/Kenan & Kel) - Kenan is a guest on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
- Natasha Leggero (Broke/Dice/Another Period/Free Agents) and Tommy Davidson (The Varnell Hill Show/The Proud Family/Malcolm & Eddie/Between Brothers) - Natasha and Tommy will be on a repeat of Funny You Should Ask at 12:37am on CBS.
- Betty Gilpin (GLOW/Nurse Jackie) - Betty talks about The Lowdown on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm.
- Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary) - Chris talks about Abbott Elementary on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am.
- Sarah Chalke (Scrubs/Roseanne/Mad Love/How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)) - Sarah chats with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT.
- Ms. Pat (The Ms. Pat Show) - Ms. Pat talks about Ms. American Dream with the ladies of The View on ABC at 11am ET/10am CT-PT. She will also be on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
- Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men/The Naked Truth/The Powers That Be/Bosom Buddies) - NBC's Today catches up with Holland in the 9am hour.
- Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland/Cafe Americain/Sydney/One Day at a Time) - Valerie is making a viral sorbet on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Scott Caan (Entourage) - Drew is sitting down with LL Cool J and Scott to talk about the premiere of their new series NCIS: New York on The Drew Barrymore Show, so check your local listings.
- Christa B. Allen (Cake) - Christa is a guest on New York Living on WPIX in New York.
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03/24/26 - Looney Tunes Collector's Vault - Volume 2 (Blu-ray)
04/11/26 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
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