Ultimate Recipe Showdown Season 3 Premiere
Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown premieres on March 14 at 10:00 p.m., hosted by Guy Fieri. Ultimate Recipe Showdown is a home cooking competition series featuring viewers of Food Network. Over 12,000 recipes were submitted out of which 24 recipes of prospective participants were chosen for this season’s competition. The chosen home cooks have an opportunity to feature their favorite recipe, whether the recipe is an adapted recipe, a recipe passed down from generation to genration or an inspired original recipe that is a favorite of friends and family alike.
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.
Jay Leno takes on The Tonight Show’s hosting duties again on March 1st. NBC is pushing top name stars and atheletes to kick-start the show with Leno to combat bad publicity. The cancellation of Leno’s primetime show, The Jay Leno Show, and subsequent disaster moving The Tonight Show’s timeslot in order to keep both Leno and Conan O’Brien on the roster, only to lose O’Brien in the process, had long time viewers complaining and fans of O’Brien protesting NBC’s actions.
American Pickers is a new show on the History Channel. Pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz of Antique Archaeology are recycling American antiques one pick at a time. The pickers aim is to find old collectables that other collectors are looking for. Mike and Frank drive the backroads from coast to coast, tranforming what some consider junk into collectibles. What others see as junk the American Pickers see as a goldmine. The world of picking involves finding everyday items in people’s barns, garages, junkyards, attics and basements. Mike and Frank meet up with friendly folk as well as not so interested customers who won’t sell them a thing.
The campaign to have Betty White host SNL is raging on, with 406,756 fans signed up as of today, urging SNL to have her as a host for the show. Fresh off receiving the lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actor’s Guild award, White is busy as ever. 
SNL alumni Tina Fey and Will Ferrell are keeping busy this year. SNL alum Will Ferrell’s show, Funny or Die Presents, premieres at midnight this Friday, February 19th on HBO. Funny or Die Presents is a new half hour comedy series highlighting a mix of professionally created and user-generated content from Ferrell and comedy partner Adam McKay’s comedy video website. Ferrell and McKay along with HBO manage to merge TV with the internet with hilarious results. 
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. 
Ever wonder where famous chefs eat when they aren’t working? The Best Thing I Ever Ate lets you in on restaurants, holes-in-the-wall, cafes, diners, famous eateries and little known places chefs eat at that feature delicious, one-of-a-kind food favored by famous chefs. 
Homer decides to take Marge out for Valentine’s Day but the restaurant is full so they look for an alternative place for their date night. They see an old skating rink and Marge decides they should skate. When the skating rink turns out to be closed Homer and Marge discover the local curling team is meeting there to practice curling. Invited to try curling, Homer and Marge immediately take to the game, well, at least Marge is good at it since she likes the sweeping aspect of the game.
Howe & Howe Tech is a new Discovery science show on Tuesday nights. The reality program stars twin brothers, Mike and Geoff Howe, who are known for extreme vehicle fabrication and design. Mike and Geoff are inventors who design and build vehicles ranging from high-speed tanks to subterranean rovers. The brothers happen to be married to two sisters, Tracy and Tammy, who work in the company office. 
Liz decides to go anti-Valentine’s Day since she has no boyfriend and schedules a root canal instead, planning to end the day watching a Lifetime movie. Liz wants to celebrate Anna Howard Shaw Day instead, a leader in the women’s movement who happened to be born on February 14. Jack has three dates scheduled to distract him from thinking of Nancy. Jenna is upset and tells Liz she hasn’t gotten her annual creepy Valentine’s Day gift from Maynard, her long-time stalker. Jenna decides to confront Maynard to see if he has dumped stalking her for Julia Roberts or one of her other acting peers.
