On 2016-02-16 1:43 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 2/16/2016 12:15 PM, MaryL wrote:
>> On 2/16/2016 10:19 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 2/16/2016 10:59 AM, nancy young wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/2016 10:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> It's bad enough that Food Network has run out of good instructional
>>>>> cooking shows and resorted to crappy cooking contests, first with
>>>>> professionals and then amateurs, but today I caught a bit of a new low
>>>>> .... Worst Cooks in America. From the few minutes of it that I could
>>>>> bear to watch, they have group of semi celebrities who are absolutely
>>>>> horrible cooks and there is a competition to teach them to be better.
>>>>> You may sort of recognize the actors but not quite be able to place
>>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> These days I find more interesting cooking shows on ... Cooking
>>>> Channel!
>>>>
>>>> They seem to have split off their competition shows and actual
>>>> cooking shows, pretty much. Food Network is rather useless
>>>> now. Unless you like cupcake competitions and the like, which
>>>> I don't.
>>>>
>>>> nancy
>>>>
>>> I find more interesting and useful cooking shows on PBS.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Same here. If I watch a cooking show, I would like to pick up hints
>> (and even recipes) that I can use. I'm not interested in watching
>> competition among "chefs" who have baskets of strange ingredients that I
>> would never use.
>>
>> MaryL
>>
> Yep, Mary. Generally I find them on weekends either in the morning or
> late afternoon. I don't watch those competition shows.
>

They try to pass them off as competitions but they are basically
"reality" shows.