The six week competition features recipes in the following categories: Burgers, Cakes, Comfort Food, Desserts, Hot and Spicy, or Hometown Favorites. The top recipes chosen for each category compete each week for top honors, a prize of $25,000 and the chance to have his or her recipe on the menu nationwide at T.G.I. Friday’s® restaurants.

The home cook contestants must recreate their recipe each week for a particular category, with a final winner from that week’s group deemed the winner. Home cooks have a cooking station with all ingredients they need to recreate their recipe. The home cooks face challenging each other by cooking the best dish then face the judges before finding out which of them wins the category and prize. Host Fieri talks with the contestants as they cook their recipe, providing encouragement and tips. In the end, if he’s lucky, Fieri gets a chance to taste the final dishes to judge for himself. Once the contestants finish their recipe, each contestant must face the three professional culinary judges who then give them a critique of their dish. Imagine how difficult it is for professional chefs to receive criticism from professional culinary judges in other Food Network shows like Iron Chef, Chopped and Food Network Challenges, much less home cooks receiving criticism about their cherished home recipes.

Ultimate Recipe Showdown is hosted by chef and popular Food Network personality Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives; Guy’s Big Bite; Guy Off the Hook). Fieri’s winning personality and culinary chops are featured as host of this series geared to showcase home cooks from across the nation.

Ultimate Recipe Showdown season 3 premieres on Food Network March 14 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Leno’s guests for the premiere week of The Tonight Show include former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, gold medal Olympians Apolo Anton Ohno, Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn, American Idol singer Adam Lambert, the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore, country singer Brad Paisley and American Idol judge Simon Cowell. Leno’s upcoming guests in the following weeks include Morgan Freeman, Kim Kardashian, Jamie Foxx and Dakota Fanning.

The controversy surrounding the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore and recent comments by American Idol judge Simon Cowell should intrigue viewers and provide some colorful moments during the first week of the show. The combination of Sarah Palin and Adam Lambert booked on the same night, along with the fact that Palin’s first interview on a late-night talk show is the rival to David Letterman’s show, with whom Palin has feuded with in the past, might pique viewer interest. This could be good programming or clever fanning of the flames to gain viewership from bad PR that might result in lower ratings than competitor Letterman’s show.

The Late Show with David Letterman is counter programming in coming weeks with scheduled guests Jerry Seinfeld, Matt Damon, Tom Brokaw and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Seinfeld, who is a friend of Leno’s and promoting his new NBC show The Marriage Ref will appear on CBS’s The Late Show the first week Leno is back in action.

More controversy was stoked when it was announced on February 16 that Kevin Eubanks, bandleader of Leno’s Tonight Show and his primetime show The Jay Leno Show, is leaving as bandleader soon after the The Tonight Show resumes production.

The Tonight Show’s star-studded line-up for March should gain interest from viewers. The question is will the bad publicity from what some viewers may see as removing O’Brien to replace him with previous Tonight Show host Leno be forgotten that easily? Time and ratings will tell the story.

In a flashback, Eliza discovers an evil slave owner (Mr. Burns) bribes her father (Homer) to give up Virgil, a slave hiding in their shed, for fried dough bits (donuts). Eliza runs to Virgil to warn him and they escape from the slave owners men, hiding in the bushes. As Lisa reads the final pages of the diary, the pages turn to dust. Lisa can’t stand that she doesn’t know the rest of the story. When Marge suggests they go to the library to do more research on Eliza Simpson, Lisa is hopeful they will find more about their family tree.

At the library, Marge and Lisa find a published cookbook of one of Eliza’s relatives with icky recipes of animal parts and more of the story of Eliza Simpson. The cookbook story by Eliza’s relative suggests Eliza was successful in helping Virgil escape. Lisa proudly presents her report, extolling the virtues of her relative. Milhouse ruins Lisa’s report by telling her Virgil and Eliza are caught and Eliza gives up.

Lisa is crushed by Milhouse’s news and heads home, dejected. Seeing Lisa so upset, Grandpa tells the family he knows the real ending to Eliza’s story but swore he would never tell them the truth but the family convinces grandpa to tell them everything he knows. Grandpa continues the story in another flashback. Eliza tries to stand up against her father to help Virgil but is reminded that girls should not question men but stay silent as was expected during that time. Eliza’s mother (Marge) confronts her husband and the evil slave owner, then flees with Virgil to Canada to help him escape slavery. During the journey Eliza’s mother and Virgil fall in love and marry, settling in Canada.

Lisa is estatic with the news that her ancestors Eliza and Eliza’s mother are heroes after all and that Virgil escaped slavery to become part of the family by taking the family name when married. Homer celebrates the news by claiming he’s of french ancestory, then drinking a bottle of wine.

Antique pickers are a special breed of antique dealers with a specific method to finding collectible memorabilia. Every time the pickers meet collectors and regular folk they discover unique and historic stories they share about their found items. Part of the fun of the series is to see the rooms full of possible treasure each picking outing uncovers. Some items come from regular folks while others come from collectors who can’t keep everything they’ve found; some items are historical artifacts while others are just plain funky and collectible.

Mike and Frank are given leads their assistant Danielle finds for them on a daily basis. Mike and Frank are often competing with other pickers to find items as quickly as possible and make a deal fast before it is snapped up by another picker. Rural areas seem to be a treasure trove for collectibles the pickers are looking for. When leads dry up for the day the pickers resort to going door to door to find what they are looking for. As Mike and Frank say, “You’re only as good as the last deal you made.”

Mike Wolfe is a lifelong American Picker. Mike has had a facination with junk since the age of four, and over the years has gained a reputation as one of the country’s foremost pickers. Antique Archaeology is Mike’s store and base of operations, selling vintage items, antiques and folk art in Le Claire, Iowa.

Frank Fritz has been friends with Mike Wolfe for twenty years. Mike started young collecting beer cans and rocks as a kid. Mike worked as a fire and safety inspector for years but his passion has always been for junk and antiques.

Watch American Pickers Mondays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel.

In an interview, the 88-year-old White commented on the Facebook situation. “I’m just amazed,” White said from Las Vegas, having been honored earlier that day by the Morris Animal Foundation at the P&G Pet Care luncheon. “I would think by now that they’ve had such an overdose of Betty White that they’d be throwing rocks instead.”

ABC’s Diane Sawyer interviewed White yesterday about being the toast of social networking. White called herself a “technological spaz,” amazed at the Facebook fan club and stated “ridiculous; they just dig old ladies.” A typical Betty White comment…how can you not like her?

White is a comedic institution, with a career spanning over 65 years in the television industry. White starred in classic shows like Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls, showcasing her superb comic timing. More recently she had a recurring role on Boston Legal. White’s popular Super Bowl ad was one of the more successful ads featured during the Super Bowl.

White has won six Emmy Awards and received 18 Emmy nominations over her career, and was the first woman to receive an Emmy for game show hosting. White received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988, the star is next to her late husband, Allen Ludden,’s star. White is the author of “Betty White’s Pet-Love: How Pets Take Care of Us” and her autobiography, “Betty White in Person”.

White is an animal rights activist, animal health advocate and pet enthusiast, supporting such charities as Actors and Others for Animals, Los Angeles Zoo Commission, the Morris Animal Foundation, and is a sponsor for Farm Animal Reform Movement and Friends of Animals.

Next up for White is a female revenge flick “You Again,” costarring Kristen Chenoweth, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis and Victor Garber. The movie is set to release in September 2010.

Ferrell and McKay worked together as writer and director on Saturday Night Live in the late 1990s. Later, McKay and Ferrell teamed up in comedies like Step Brothers and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

Ferrell and McKay co-created Funny or Die in 2007. “The whole concept of Funny or Die…was the idea that people could have a place to put up whatever they wanted to put up with no notes and no filter,” writer-director Adam McKay said. “The TV show came out of that same spirit.”

Upcoming weekly shows will include videos starring Zach Galifianakis, Wayne Newton, Don Cheadle, Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell.

Besides her usual gig on 30 Rock, former SNL head writer and cast member Tina Fey is set to host Saturday Night Live in April 2010. There is speculation she will reprise her famous Sarah Palin impersonation if the skit passes muster with Lorne Michaels. “It’s inevitable that we’ll try it, at least,” Fey said in an interview Tuesday.

“We’ll see if it makes it to air” the comedian said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. Fey’s impersonation of former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was a huge hit with viewers of SNL and during the 2008 campaign season, drawing huge ratings for the show. “It was the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me,” said Fey. “I’ve never had anything fall in my lap like that. Everything is usually me trying to convince the people of Earth that it’s OK for me to perform…that felt like the opposite.”

Viewers will remember Palin’s cameo on SNL appearing with Fey in October 2008. Palin stated in her book “Going Rogue” she grew up watching SNL, and would appear on the show again if asked.

Food Network interviews famous chefs from all over the country as well as Food Network chefs and personalities hosting Food Network shows as to their top choices for a variety of foods they have tasted and loved. This is the ultimate guide to dishes recommended by foodies who have obsessed over food their entire lives.

Dishes showcased include best fried foods, best BBQ, best snack foods, best meat dishes, best chocolate, dishes with bacon, best pizzas, best burgers, best sweets, food obsessions, holiday foods and more.

Some of the featured chef food reviews include Michael Symon, Ted Allen, Giada De Laurentiis, Aaron Sanchez, Bobby Flay, Paula Dean, Guy Fieri and Tyler Florence to name a few. The best thing about this show, besides enjoying the visuals and descriptions of the dishes, is the opportunity to find local places you can visit that the chefs recommend. What better way to try a new dish or restaurant that has such a high seal of approval than a chef telling you this is the best they’ve ever eaten?

If you are wondering where you can find the delicious foods featured on The Best Thing I Ever Ate, just visit the show’s website on Food Network (www.foodnetwork.com) and you will find episodes listed along with the locations of the places where those magical foods are created. If you look at the restaurant websites featured on The Best Thing I Ever Ate you may find that some of the recipes are listed on the restaurant websites for those of you eager to try making the dishes yourself. If you are lucky, some of those food goodies can be shipped to you directly if you live too far away to enjoy what the restaurants offer. Be sure to check out the Food Network show listings for more information.

Watch The Best Thing I Ever Ate On Food Network on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT

Soon Homer and Marge are practicing curling with the local team. The curling team consists of Principal Skinner, his mother, and the Wiggims. Principal Skinner’s mother spends quite a bit of time berating him as they practice curling. The story goes that years ago at the Olympics, Principal Skinner as a fetus kicked against his mother’s stomach as she vaulted over the pole vault, knocking down the top rung and disqualifying her at the Olympics. Ever since then she has resented the kick that ruined her chances to win a medal. Soon Homer and Marge replace the Wiggums on Skinners’ team. The Springfield curling team is so good they end up qualifying for the Olympics in Vancouver, so its off to Vancouver to compete in the 2010 Olympics.

While Homer and Marge practice their curling, Bart and Lisa check out the Olympic ice rink. Lisa meets a little girl who convinces her to look over the vast array of Olympic pins. Lisa sees the assortment and is intrigued, buying a pin then going for a second pin. The little girl is actually a guy in a wig dressed as a little girl to hook unsuspecting girls into buying Olympic pins from the concession stand. Lisa is hooked and starts buying Olympic pins left and right, running out of space on her clothes to pin them on.

As the competition for curling begins, Homer is the weak link on the team. Marge over compensates for Homer after he slides the stone, sweeping with all her might to right the wrong direction of the curling stone. After a big mistake made by Homer, Marge does everything in her power to sweep the stone back to the middle of the target, in the process spraining her right arm. The team is in trouble with Marge’s injury and they break until the next day’s competition.

Lisa has no more money and pawns the pearls her mother gave her for more Olympic pin swag. Bart finds Lisa wearing an Olympic pin dress, playing on the street for pocket change so she can buy more pins. Lisa realizes she has a pin problem and swears them off. Bart decides to help Lisa get her pearl necklace back. Bart cuts the bottom chin off of Homer’s license then attached a back pin, turning the chin upside down to create a weird “rare” pin to offer the concession stand guy. Bart presents his “rare” pin, which is strange enough that the concession guy must have it. Bart and Lisa come back to the Olympics to watch their parents, with Lisa wearing her treasured pearls once again.

Homer watches Marge ably do her daily chores with her left arm, while her right arm is tied up in a sling. Homer suggests to Marge she can play left-handed and Marge agrees. Principal Skinner’s mother forgives him at last for his fetal kick and they look forward to competing together. At the next competition Marge plays left-handed and the team wins the competition, winning the gold medal. At the awards ceremony Marge and Homer proudly accept their gold medals for the Springfield curling team.

Mike and Geoff rely on their hard working team to help them create cutting-edge vehicles. The deadlines are often tight and testing must be done on these extreme vehicles before they are shipped out. Testing can be complex, requiring riding over rough terrain to blowing up explosives under the vehicle.

The Howe brothers have created a number of extreme vehicles used by the military, SWAT and law enforcement agencies. The Ripsaw is the original vehicle created by the brothers, making them famous internationally. The Ripsaw turn on a dime, goes from zero to 50mph in 3.5 seconds, and can scale a 30-foot 45-degree hill. $1.5 million may seem like a lot of money to produce the Ripsaw but it is cheap in comparison to other vehicles on the market.

Next Howe & Howe Technologies created the Badger, known as the world’s smallest tank, for the Las Vegas Metro SWAT team. One of the newest creations by the brothers is the SR-1, a subterranean rover able to go down into a mine to transport workers and supplies down the miles-long shafts. The personnel carrier can survive fireball blasts, cratered terrain, and cave-ins.

Many of the vehicles the Howe brothers have invented are created to keep our military safe in the line of duty and police officers safe in the workplace. These vehicles are virtually indestructible, a new vision of safety that can be used during war and every day law enforcement in our country.

The Howe brothers are known in Defense Department R&D circles as the “Wright Brothers of the Military”. At age 6 the brothers did experiments on the family toaster and seeing what they could blow up in the wood stove. At age 16, the brothers purchased their first car and started experimenting with vehicles. In 1996 the brothers started building custom cars and off-road buggies with nicknames like Godzilla and T-Rex. The vision for their company took hold when they created the world’s fastest tank in 2001. After a high performance prototype of the tank became Ripsaw, the company went into high gear.

Check out the show site online on Discovery to see videos and descriptions of the cool vehicles they have created.

Watch Howe & Howe Tech on Discovery, Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Liz arranges her dental appointment but needs someone to drive her home afterwards. The only problem is, everyone else has Valentine’s Day plans and she has no one to drive her home. Even Kenneth has plans to attend an all-day abstinence rally. Jenna confronts Maynard at his fast food workplace. Maynard admits to seeing a therapist and that his stalking of Jenna is through. Jenna thought Maynard’s stalking of her would end with her in the trunk of a rental car, not with him dumping her. Back at the studio, Jenna remembers all the creepy, scary stalker things Maynard did to her over the years and feels let down for Valentine’s Day.

Jack appears on MSNBC’s “Hot Box with Avery Jessup” and instantly connects with the right-wing broadcaster. Avery and Jack agree to drinks, but Jack’s fake call from Jonathan, to either impress his date or have an excuse to leave the date, backfires. Avery is too smart and leaves Jack at the bar, forelorn. The next day Avery contacts Jack, giving him one more chance with her. Jack arranges for her to watch a live taping of TGS. Meanwhile Liz is still looking for a ride since the male escort she hired bowed out due to an STD flare-up.

Jenna finds a creepy cut-out of her face with no eyes on her dressing room mirror and is thrilled, she has another stalker. Jenna realizes Kenneth made the collage to cheer Jenna up. Jenna hugs Kenneth, grateful someone is thinking of her, even in a creepy way, for Valentine’s Day.

Jack sets up a phony VIP section at TGS to impress Avery. NBC artist-in-resident Jon Bon Jovi is stuck hanging around the VIP section because of his contract. When he comes over to introduce himself to Avery, Jack blows him off as he and Avery head out for a private date. Bon Jovi walks away dejected, muttering “I hate this place”.

Liz decides to lie to the dental assistants about having someone to pick her up thinking she can do it all on her own. Liz has her root canal and during anesthesia starts halluncinating that Drew, Dennis and Floyd are visiting her for Valentine’s Day. Avery gets ready to leave Jack’s place after a one-nighter. Jack wants to go further with the relationship but Avery thinks Jack is just like every other silver fox she’s ever known.

Jack gets a call from the dental office, asking him to pick up Liz Lemon, who it totally out of it after her surgery. Jack asks Avery to accompany him while he picks up Lemon. Jack and Avery arrive at the dental office to find Liz trying to make out with a potted palm tree, thinking the tree is Drew, Dennis or Floyd. Jack gets Lemon safely home while Avery begins to think Jack may be worth a second date after all.