"Default User" > wrote in message
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> hermit wrote:
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>>
>> Perhaps this has already been discussed, but does anyone know why
>> Mario is gone from the Food TV Network?
>
> FN told him that they weren't going to renew the contract on the old
> reruns of Molto Mario. He got in a snit and said that if they did that
> he wouldn't do Iron Chef. They said ok.
>
> Fairly dumb on both sides, dumber on Mario's if you ask me.

> Brian
>

I wonder if that is why Alton Brown had that program last night about the
"Next Iron Chef."

I think it was dumber on food network's part not to renew the contract on
the old reruns of Molto Mario. I'm still watching them, loads of which I've
never seen; surely there are other people who are just discovering Mario.

Mario doesn't need food network; he's got a gzillian restaurants and books.
(I just bought an older published book of his the other day.) Who needs to
be connected to a failing network!
Dee Dee