Gone are the days when one could enliven their Sunday mornings by watching Julia Child and Jacques Pepin affectionately debate the proper way to scramble eggs or divulge their secrets to whole chicken perfection. Enter Hungry, YouTube's new food channel that, it seems, signals a shift away from network food television by offering viewers "culinary competitions, food pranks, and unique gastronomic dining experiences" (e.g., high caloric freak show food items.) more ›

ABC's drama The Bachelor is looking for a few good-looking men. Well, one. They need a new bachelor to pretend he's looking for love and lifetime companionship. Might that be you? "We are very open to all ethnicities," producer Holly Golden explained to SFist. You should also be "handsome and eligible." To the press release! more ›

Bravo unveiled a new batch of must-see shows for the fall season. One in particular, Silicon Valley, produced by Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, will take place here in the Bay Area. (Regarding the new series, she told NBC Bay Area, "I'm a strong believer in innovation and entrepreneurship and hope that through this series other people will be inspired to build the next break out companies and technologies.") And like all Bravo shows, Silicon Valley promises to feature a cast of characters that are dynamic, wealthy, unapologetic, insufferable and, with varying degrees of success, camera-ready. more ›

Saturday Night Live recently hired a new female comic, Kate McKinnon, known for her work with Upright Citizens Brigade and the Big Gay Sketch Show. The latter hints at the fact that, yes, McKinnon is gay, which effectively makes her SNL's first openly lesbian featured player. (Terry Sweeney, who appeared in the disastrous 1985-86 season, was the show's first openly gay guy.) She makes her debut this Saturday when Sofia Vergara hosts. more ›

Have you always wanted to live your life in front of TV cameras, with a sundry of people ranging from skinny and attractive to skinny and young? Now's your chance: On April 7th, CBS' Big Brother will be interviewing potential hamsters to live in the Big Brother house this summer. If you make it through to the show, lightening-brief fame is yours; if you outlast your fellow housemates, a cool $500,000 is also yours. more ›

Basically everything is trippy slowed down by 800%. The true music geeks among you should enjoy this, as well as the same thing done to the Sanford & Son theme song. more ›

There is a fresh "assault" in the works from Apple on the TV industry, and a piece in today's Wall Street Journal focuses on some recent meetings that Apple execs have been having with a range of media companies, some at the request of said companies which are nervously biting their nails trying to figure out what Apple has up its sleeve next. more ›

For all of the machismo and swagger, we cannot stay mad at Anthony Bourdain. Who can, really? (Oh, Tony B., your love for San Francisco -- like your sinewy frame, olive-hued skin, and alto-kissed voice -- is infectious!) This summer, Bourdain was in San Francisco to film his new show, The Layover. And he finally got what Baghdad by the Bay is all about, and then some. more ›

Oh boy, do we have a bushel of questions for America's Test Kitchen host Christopher Kimball. Like: who do you like better, Bridget Lancaster or Julia Collin-Davison? (We cannot decide!) What's the deal with the whole Vermont thing? Do you hate Good Eats since you both more or less do similar things? Why are you wasting our time with the equipment corner? And, why do you fumble on the taste-test challenge? You seem actually peeved when you pick the wrong one. Which you do. Often. And that tickles us. more ›

Jane Lynch was the guest of honor at Fall Free for All, the season-opening celebration for Cal Performances, this past Sunday. While speaking to a (rapt) audience, Lynch said, "If I could choose who I want to be when I come back in my next life, it would be Darren Criss." more ›

While Bad Girls Club forever remains the apex to which all reality TV should strive -- really, Deadliest Catch? Zzz -- the California Department of Motor Vehicles will try to match the drama and intrigue with its very own brand spanking, non-competitive reality TV show. Christened California DMV: Field Offices, the show, according to Entertainment Weekly, will be "co-produced by actor Ashton Kutcher and veteran reality TV exec Jason Goldberg" and "will look at what its like to work at one of the few state departments that touches nearly every Californian." more ›

Boy, do we love us some Mr. Bing's in North Beach. In fact, it's where we might or might not have gotten into a heated argument recently with the editor of Inside Scoop over the intellect, or lack thereof, of one Miss Britney Spears. (We lost that argument, clearly.) Anyway, the popular-yet-dusty bar hosted a segment today for Anthony Bourdain's new show tentatively titled The Layover. more ›

On last night's Intervention (the Emmy Award-winning reality series that follows drug addicts around with a camera, culminating in a usually heart-wrenching "gift" of rehab presented by the subject's family) two locals were featured on the show. Luke, one of the kids you see skateboarding by the Ferry Building, and his mother live on the streets due to the former's problem with crack-cocaine. He's a bright kid who wants to become a journalist (not a good profession for an addict, by the way) and loves to read (Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac, just to name two), but can't seem to stop using that which is whack. The whole ordeal is sad (yet entertaining) and a testament to the folks we see living on the streets each day. more ›

When the battle over California's same-sex marriage ban heads to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco on September 6, TV cameras will be rolling. SF Appeal notes: "Court spokeswoman Lynn Holton said that because of public interest in the case, the court has approved a live statewide television broadcast of the arguments on the California Channel, a public affairs network." more ›

Inside Scoop's masterful Paolo Lucchesi brings us crucial entertainment this afternoon: James Brown's two long-lost Cup-O-Noodle commercials. They're beautiful. Lucchesi notes: "Sometimes there are no words. This is not one of those times. There is just one word here: Amazingness. This is guaranteed to brighten anyone's day." And how. more ›

PARTY: Get an exclusive peek at SF's own Broke-Ass Stuart's new IFC show, Young, Broke & Beautiful, which premieres this Friday, June 24, at a special viewing party happening tonight. The event will feature IndieMart vendors, food trucks, performances by Richie Cunning, Ashkon, the Hard French DJ’s and DJ Bad DJ, and a screening of one of the show's full episodes. (7 p.m., Public Works, 161 Erie Street) more ›

In today's InsideScoop column, Da Gour-mayor drops a few less-than-subtle hints that he's working on a new, food-centric television program. As he says, he was down in LA this week "for a screening of a television show I'm a part of." Our interest is piqued, Willie. Please, go on... more ›

On tonight's season opener of The Bachelorette -- girlie spinoff of The Bachelor, ABC's popular fake reality dating show about white people -- one of the 25 bachelors in competition is 28-year-old Sonoma winemaker Benjamin Flajnik. And just look at him. No, look at him! He looks like the kind of guy with whom one might want to have premarital sexual intercourse. Good call, Disney Company. more ›

The depressing story of 34-year-old San Francisco pageant mom Kerry Campbell, who gives her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections, made readers foam at the mouth after The Mommy Files brought the all-too-true tale to the public's attention. Kerry, looking to make her young daughter both famous and sexually alluring, "purchases Botox online and injects her 8-year-old daughter Britney with it." She also waxes her daughter's legs and bikini line in a chilling effort "to get rid of peach fuzz and to make sure she doesn't develop pubic hair later in life." Mom and daughter, named Britney (of course), appeared on Inside Edition today to explain. more ›

UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot episode back in February and they must have captured some particularly compelling footage because rumor has it Fox was ready to pass on the series. more ›

The lovely Michele Mandell brings word that noted KQED restaurant-review show Check, Please! Bay Area is looking for a few good reviewers. Might you be one of them? The rules, in addition to being camera-ready, are as follows: You must be at least 21 years old, you must be willing to travel to and participate in a taping at KQED studios in San Francisco, you must be free on a weekday for a few hours, and you must be able to travel to any restaurant location within a 50-mile radius of San Francisco at your own expense. more ›

While we loathe most competitive TV shows, Top Chef and the CBS's epic Big Brother are the notable exceptions. Compared to Bravo's Emmy Award winner about scallop searing, molecular gastronomy and fauxhawks, Big Brother is particularly ghastly. Thirteen strangers are selected to live inside a compound during the summer months somewhere in the Valley, and the one left standing wins $500,000. (The disgusting Dick Donato, if you recall, somehow managed to win season 8, even after indirectly threatening a female housemate with rape. His daughter, Daniele.) The entire experiment is broadcast on TV and live on the web, warts and all. Furthermore, you should tryout for it this coming Saturday at Sugar Cafe! more ›

Bad Girls Club: The advent of reality TV has led us to this very moment, and what a moment it is. Bad Girls Club, a jarrong hour-long show, houses seven awesome women inside a luxe Los Angeles Sherman Oaks-adjacent McMansion and then gives them access to loads of booze, a limo, and estrogen-enriched strife. Chaos, fisticuffs, and pixilated private parts ensue. While Jersey Shore receives the cultural zeitgeist fanfare, BGC is, without question, actually the show of our times. On tonight's episode, Wilmarie gets burned by her allies (serves you right, replacement!), Char tries to keep her posse (proxies never work, Char!), and Nikki tries attempts sexual intercourse with an American-Italian (kudos to you, Nikki!). 8 p.m., Oxygen more ›

OK, we're getting quite, um, rustic here by showing you a recorded preview of The Franchise, the Showtime reality show based on the San Francisco Giants post-World Series win. Sadly, Showtime hasn't released a clearer version on YouTube, which is why you're seeing this alluc.org-esque version of the preview. Sorry, folks. Anyway, check it out: more ›

Say what you will about Rachael Ray, but we've never felt that disdain others do for the 30 Minute Meals hostess. Maybe because her Olive and Garlic Soft Cheese Spread has been a staple at our Saturday nights in front of the TV lavish parties for years. That said, you should check out her talkshow tomorrow when Tablehopper's Marcia Gagliardi and Twitter's Biz Stone will make a guest appearance. more ›

If you're not reading American Idol recaps by SF Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond, you're missing out. And how. The noted alt-weekly editor has been doing a surprisingly bang-up job wrapping up this year's revamped American Idol into interesting, bite-size nuggets. (We're surprised only because we typically read Redmond's thoughts on politics and other important-but-not-nearly-as-fun stuff.) more ›

While we can't tell you for sure that this casting call is for Andy Cohen's noted sect of housewives on Bravo (*cough* *cough*), but an ad posted today on Craigslist seeks six affluent housewives in the Bay Area for a reality show project. more ›