Robert Irvine has weighed in on the end of his long-running Food Network series Restaurant: Impossible. The series followed Irvine as he made over struggling restaurants in just two days and with a $10,000 budget. But the show no longer fit with what Food Network viewers wanted to see on TV, leading the network to cancel the series, the chef and TV host recently shared on social media.
‘Restaurant: Impossible’ canceled after 22 seasons
Restaurant: Impossible was a Food Network staple for years, originally airing from 2011 to 2016. The show then went on hiatus for three years before returning in 2019. It wrapped up its 22nd season in April 2023. Those episodes proved to be the last for the show. In May, Irvine responded to a fan question about the program’s future with some disappointing news.
“@FoodNetwork hasn’t told me anything yet,” he tweeted. “So I assume it’s done.”
A Food Network...
‘Restaurant: Impossible’ canceled after 22 seasons
Restaurant: Impossible was a Food Network staple for years, originally airing from 2011 to 2016. The show then went on hiatus for three years before returning in 2019. It wrapped up its 22nd season in April 2023. Those episodes proved to be the last for the show. In May, Irvine responded to a fan question about the program’s future with some disappointing news.
“@FoodNetwork hasn’t told me anything yet,” he tweeted. “So I assume it’s done.”
A Food Network...
- 7/12/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Marc Summers has built a remarkable career as the quintessential American television host. From “Double Dare” to “Unwrapped,” with scores of additional credits, Summers has seen and been through it all. One of the lucky few not to be pigeon-holed into one area, Summers is thrilled with the many types of programs he has been able to host, produce and create. Now he's ready to expand his hosting skills into the world of podcasts in his new show, Marc Summers Unwraps.
Launching Feb. 13, 2023, the show will be available on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Produced by Believe Limited, the podcast will feature candid, honest and often humorous conversations with Summers and his friends and fellow entertainment heavy hitters, going deep into the major challenges and milestone decisions that have led to each of their unparalleled careers in "the biz.” “I never want it to be about me,...
Launching Feb. 13, 2023, the show will be available on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Produced by Believe Limited, the podcast will feature candid, honest and often humorous conversations with Summers and his friends and fellow entertainment heavy hitters, going deep into the major challenges and milestone decisions that have led to each of their unparalleled careers in "the biz.” “I never want it to be about me,...
- 2/13/2023
- Podnews.net
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- 11/6/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Competition series from Kal Penn and ice cream manufacturers Ben & Jerry’s are part of Food Network and Cooking Channel’s latest slate of originals.
The Discovery-owned networks are plotting over 30 new series and more than 25 returning series for the second half of the year as part of 400 hour of food-focused programming for cable and streamer Discovery+.
Penn is hosting Money Hungry, a contest that requires the abilities of a super taster combined with a wide-reaching culinary knowledge to complete a series of increasingly difficult taste tests encompassing the entire world of flavors.
Ben and Jerry’s: The Cold Wars (w/t), is an ice cream competition, where teams of future flavor gurus create wildly imaginative and out-of-this-world frozen treats in a bid for the grand prize.
Elsewhere, The Try Guys – Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang – are fronting No Recipe Road Trip with...
The Discovery-owned networks are plotting over 30 new series and more than 25 returning series for the second half of the year as part of 400 hour of food-focused programming for cable and streamer Discovery+.
Penn is hosting Money Hungry, a contest that requires the abilities of a super taster combined with a wide-reaching culinary knowledge to complete a series of increasingly difficult taste tests encompassing the entire world of flavors.
Ben and Jerry’s: The Cold Wars (w/t), is an ice cream competition, where teams of future flavor gurus create wildly imaginative and out-of-this-world frozen treats in a bid for the grand prize.
Elsewhere, The Try Guys – Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang – are fronting No Recipe Road Trip with...
- 6/1/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – What better holiday than Thanksgiving to highlight a celebrity chef? Chef Robert Irvine is familiar to fans of the Food Network, through his shows “Dinner: Impossible” and “Restaurant: Impossible.” His brand of tough love has expanded to a new self help series, appropriately titled “The Robert Irvine Show.” Irvine was recently in Chicago appearing on behalf of Comcast at the Studio Xfinity store.
Robert Irvine was born in England, and began his cooking career in the Royal Navy, which he joined at age 15. He completed his duty on Her Majesty’s Royal Yacht Britannia, and did consultant work, eventually become Executive Chef at the Taj Mahal in Las Vegas. He began his TV career in 2007 with the Food Network show “Fit for a King,” which eventually morphed into “Dinner: Impossible.”
Chef Robert Irvine at Studio Xfinity in Chicago, November 14th, 2016
Photo credit: Comcast
Chef Irvine followed that show with...
Robert Irvine was born in England, and began his cooking career in the Royal Navy, which he joined at age 15. He completed his duty on Her Majesty’s Royal Yacht Britannia, and did consultant work, eventually become Executive Chef at the Taj Mahal in Las Vegas. He began his TV career in 2007 with the Food Network show “Fit for a King,” which eventually morphed into “Dinner: Impossible.”
Chef Robert Irvine at Studio Xfinity in Chicago, November 14th, 2016
Photo credit: Comcast
Chef Irvine followed that show with...
- 11/24/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
For 11 seasons now, Robert Irvine has hosted Food Network's "Restaurant Impossible." From its inception, the show followed a familiar format: a chef goes in to a failing restaurant, criticizes things, yells a lot, makes over the place, and leaves. That format was first popularized by Gordon Ramsay in "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares," and then destroyed by Fox with its Americanized version. Since then, it seems every cable network needs to have their own version, sometimes with a twist ("Bar Rescue," "Tabatha's Salon Takeover"). While those shows can be light, predictable, formulaic fun, "Restaurant: Impossible" rises to the top of that heap. Here's why Robert rules. Robert Irvine asks simple questions that people can't answer. Robert Irvine is the best at calmly asking questions that get right to the core of the problem and tell us everything we need to know about why a restaurant is failing. For example, almost every episode,...
- 5/14/2015
- by Andy Dehnart
- Hitfix
Fine cuisine cooked on a car engine? Charcoal grills fashioned out of utility barrels? A dirty car hole transformed into a trendy cafe?
You’ll see all that and more in Covert Kitchens, a one-hour special in which MasterChef Junior judge Graham Elliot challenges aspiring chefs to create a first-class underground restaurant… in a Los Angeles garage… in just 36 hours. Think Food Network’s Dinner: Impossible, only trendier and with Michael Voltaggio, Nancy Silverton, and John Shook as judges.
Covert Kitchens airs Sunday, Oct. 20 at 11 p.m. Et on Spike TV.
You’ll see all that and more in Covert Kitchens, a one-hour special in which MasterChef Junior judge Graham Elliot challenges aspiring chefs to create a first-class underground restaurant… in a Los Angeles garage… in just 36 hours. Think Food Network’s Dinner: Impossible, only trendier and with Michael Voltaggio, Nancy Silverton, and John Shook as judges.
Covert Kitchens airs Sunday, Oct. 20 at 11 p.m. Et on Spike TV.
- 10/15/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
When Food Network chef Robert Irvine married pro wrestler Gail Kim on May 10, he had planned a night of surprises for his bride-to-be. "He wanted to give me the fairy tale wedding," Kim, 35, tells People, adding that she knew nothing more than the location, time and date. "I didn't know the colors of my wedding or what my bouquet would look like! But I trusted his taste." A horse-drawn carriage picked up Kim for a brief tour around the vineyard of California's Charles Krug Winery before her debut in front of 160 friends and family members. "I cried when she walked down the aisle,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Thailan Pham
- PEOPLE.com
Super-fit Food Network star Robert Irvine has met his match - in both heart and physique. On Thursday, Restaurant: Impossible host Irvine, 46, wed professional wrestler Gail Kim, 35, in Napa Valley, Calif. Kim is the reigning titleholder of the Tna (Total Nonstop Action) Women's Knockout Championship. Also a former WWE Women's champion, she once wrestled under the ring name "La Felina." The couple met on the set of Irvine's show, Dinner: Impossible. The British chef handled all the logistics of wedding planning, leaving his bride-to-be with one assignment: to show up looking "as beautiful as she always does," he has said.
- 5/11/2012
- by Thailan Pham
- PEOPLE.com
What is Uncle Sam’s beef with the Bau? What’s cooking on Body of Proof? How will Sons of Anarchy make way for a Samcro member’s abrupt exit? Read on for those answers, plus other teases from TV’s hottest shows.
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- 9/8/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The worst cooks are back on Food Network. Sixteen of the country.s most hopeless cooks attempt to transform from kitchen zeros into kitchen heroes as they compete in a grueling culinary boot camp on season two of Food Network.s primetime reality series, Worst Cooks in America. With a season one victory, Chef Anne Burrell (Secrets of a Restaurant Chef) returns to lead the red team to repeat success, but one obstacle stands in the way: Chef Robert Irvine (Dinner: Impossible) brings his unparalleled expertise in conquering culinary obstacles to the competition as the show.s new co-host determined to overthrow Anne.s reign with a blue team win.
- 11/16/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Food Network has already created TV sensations with a number of now well-known names such as Emeril Lagasse and Rachael Ray, both of whom are known even by non-Food Network fans.
Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Paula Deen and Alton Brown haven't done to badly for themselves either, achieving a following and reputation beyond their first show.
On Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. Et, "The Next Food Network Star" once again tries to find that next face, pesonaly and branding gold mine through a reality show format.
Check out the promo for the two-hour premiere:
It's a fun show, full of regular folks trying to make it big, celebrity chef cameos and colorful cooking/media challenges, but does it actually work? Does it accomplish what it sets out to do? Oh sure, each of the contestants get great exposure and may go on to capitalize on their experience (much...
Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Paula Deen and Alton Brown haven't done to badly for themselves either, achieving a following and reputation beyond their first show.
On Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. Et, "The Next Food Network Star" once again tries to find that next face, pesonaly and branding gold mine through a reality show format.
Check out the promo for the two-hour premiere:
It's a fun show, full of regular folks trying to make it big, celebrity chef cameos and colorful cooking/media challenges, but does it actually work? Does it accomplish what it sets out to do? Oh sure, each of the contestants get great exposure and may go on to capitalize on their experience (much...
- 6/5/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The diabolical plan to take over the culinary TV world continues with Food Network's newest handmaiden: the Cooking Channel.
Launching May 31st, Cooking Channel will feature familiar faces like Aida Mollenkamp and "Iron Chef" Michael Symon, along with new blood for a diverse slate.
The primetime breakdown:
"Unique Eats" - A spotlight on America's revolutionary and original cuisine"Drink Up!" - Darryl "Dr. Mixologist" Robinson hosts happy hour from New York City with unique concoctions"Foodcrafters" - Aida Mollenkamp travels the country to focus on handmade foods"Foodography" - Comedian Mo Rocca hosts a look at food culture, past, present and future"Food Jammers" - A culinary contraption is conceived in the warehouse studio
Daytime:
"Spice Goddess" - Simple, tasty everyday Indian meals by Bal Arneson"Indian Food Made Easy" - More Indian food, this time by Anjum Anand"Cook Like an Iron Chef" (July premiere) - Iron Chef...
Launching May 31st, Cooking Channel will feature familiar faces like Aida Mollenkamp and "Iron Chef" Michael Symon, along with new blood for a diverse slate.
The primetime breakdown:
"Unique Eats" - A spotlight on America's revolutionary and original cuisine"Drink Up!" - Darryl "Dr. Mixologist" Robinson hosts happy hour from New York City with unique concoctions"Foodcrafters" - Aida Mollenkamp travels the country to focus on handmade foods"Foodography" - Comedian Mo Rocca hosts a look at food culture, past, present and future"Food Jammers" - A culinary contraption is conceived in the warehouse studio
Daytime:
"Spice Goddess" - Simple, tasty everyday Indian meals by Bal Arneson"Indian Food Made Easy" - More Indian food, this time by Anjum Anand"Cook Like an Iron Chef" (July premiere) - Iron Chef...
- 4/20/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
White hot star Guy Fieri highlights the Food Network third season of Ultimate Recipe Showdown premiering Sunday, March 14th at 9pm. Olympic figure skater and epicurean Brian Boitano returns with a highly-anticipated new season of What Would Brian Boitano Make? premiering Sunday, March 7th at 1pm. The network's Dinner: Impossible, premiering Wednesday, March 3rd at 10pm, has Robert Irvine tackle massive missions to make demanding meals. Catch all-new episodes of three more popular .In the Kitchen. cooking series: Aaron McCargo, Jr. in Big Daddy.s House premiering Sunday, March 7th at 1:30pm, Anne Burrell in Secrets of a Restaurant Chef premiering Saturday, March 13th at 10:30am, and Sandra Lee in Sandra.s Money Saving Meals premiering Sunday, March 28th at...
- 2/19/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
See the first poster from the Ryan Craig-directed and written drama "Small Town Saturday Night," starring Chris Pine, Robert Pine, John Hawkes, Bre Blair, Lin Shaye, Muse Watson, Shawn Christian and Brent Briscoe. Coming in 2010, the film tells of a country musician whose relationship and career do not mix well. The story also involves people within the town and how the couple's relationship affects them. Craig makes his feature-length directorial debut as well as his writing debut on the project. His previous credits are for TV's "Dinner: Impossible," "Piano Man in a Guitar Town" as well as "Taildaters."...
- 11/24/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
December is all about the food and festivities on Food Network, as the channel brings you the best of their lot in specials that show you how to turn out a great party or family dinner. Network stars such as Robert Irvine and Guy Fieri will join forces to accomplish .Dinner: Impossible., as the Food Network favorites offer holiday recipes and advice on how to pull off a soiree with flair. This December, Food Network spreads cheer to viewers with exciting new holiday-themed specials and series episodes. Robert Irvine and Guy Fieri work together with Share Our Strength to give Santa Rosa Boys and Girls Club members an unforgettable holiday memory in Dinner: Impossible, premiering Wednesday, December 9th...
- 11/16/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Robert Irvine has a new season of making the impossible possible on the Food Network. Production has begun this May on a new season of Dinner: Impossible, it was announced today by Food Network. The show will bow this August 2009; the series will shoot 13 new episodes throughout the spring and challenge chef Robert Irvine to overcome a whole new slew of culinary obstacles. Irvine tackles the challenge like the trained military man he is, and is described as "a marvel in the kitchen." From Food Network: Every Wednesday at 10pm Et/Pt, he accepts a variety of missions like an extreme dinner for 200 Winter X Games athletes, preparing odd but tasty combinations of food...
- 5/14/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The Food Network rolls out "Dinner Impossible" Wednesday, April 8th at 10:00pmET/Pt. Englishman Robert Irvine began cooking at the age of 15, when he joined the Royal Navy. As part of his service, he worked on board the Royal Yacht Britannia where the Royal Family and their entourages regularly dined. Now a foodie marvel, Robert Irvine overcomes culinary obstacles in Food Network.s popular series, Dinner: Impossible as he returns with six new hour-long episodes. Irvine accepts missions like an extreme dinner for 200 Winter X Games athletes, preparing odd but tasty combinations of food for 450 Yahoo! employees and taking a gamble on a mission at the renowned casino at Mohegan Sun. Upcoming episodes include: Premieres: Wednesday,...
- 3/19/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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