The Restaurant is a reality television series that aired on NBC in 2003, with a second season broadcasting in 2004. The series had encore presentations on CNBC and Bravo.
Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito opened the Gramercy Park, New York City, restaurant Union Pacific in August, 1997. The NBC series, it was announced, would follow DiSpirito as he launched and operated a new Manhattan restaurant. The first season revolved around the construction and opening of Rocco's on 22nd, scheduled to open in five weeks. Some 7.5 million viewers tuned in for the July 20, 2003 premiere focusing on the search for a location and construction work for the new restaurant.
Among the 2000 people who showed up hoping to be hired were various actors, models and show business hopefuls. In addition to Rocco's mother, Nicolina DiSpirito, known for her famous meatballs, the show's on-camera personnel included David Miller, Alex Corrado, Domiziano Arcangeli, Heather Kristin, Natalie Norman, Topher Goodman, Lisa Wurzel, Brian Allen, Gideon H
From G's to Gents was an MTV reality television series which features misdirected young men willing to change their lives and become gentlemen. The show is hosted by Fonzworth Bentley, and premiered on MTV on July 15, 2008. The objective of the show is to make the transformation from a roughneck to a sophisticated gentleman within the given time. The second season, From G's To Gents 2, premiered on February 10, 2009.
Together, Alex Guarnaschelli, Bobby Flay, Michael Symon and Curtis Stone make up one of the fiercest foursomes in culinary competitions. In this series, they will battle it out in the kitchen, as mentor versus mentor with teams of shining home cooks.
Kazunari Ninomiya × Masayasu Wakabayashi (of Audrey) team up for the first time as co-hosts to present a brand-new type of survival game variety show, “Secret NG House.” In this game, Ninomiya and Wakabayashi act as the Game Masters, setting hidden rules — “Secret NGs” (absolutely forbidden actions). If a player performs any of these NG actions three times, they are immediately eliminated. The players must use the warning sounds that go off when an NG action occurs as clues to deduce what the forbidden actions are. Those who figure it out can then set traps to make their unsuspecting rivals commit the NG actions, knocking each other out in the process! Eight popular celebrities engage in an intense battle of deduction and deception. Who will survive to the end and take home the prize money?
Travel expert Tony Hung heads to the Amazon rainforest in South America with friends. They explore the region with local guides, including a popular social media family, Brazilian soldiers, and volunteer firefighters. They discover the modern lifestyles of indigenous people and participate in various activities, from sightseeing, haircuts, and magic shows to dancing and art. This unconventional journey offers a fresh perspective on the Amazon.
In a brand new series exclusive to Challenge TV, cameras go behind the scenes of TNA Wrestling's search for a UK superstar and follow tag-team twins Hannah and Holly Blossom, Marty Scurll and Rockstar Spud as they hope to make it big in the ultra-competitive world of TNA IMPACT Wrestling. Entering the TNA developmental system, they are put to the test by the likes of Hulk Hogan and British wrestling legend Rollerball Rocco, culminating with a match at the IMPACT ZONE in Orlando where they hope to impress the judges and TNA President Dixie Carter.
If there's one man who can work the room, it's designer and host Kenneth Brown (a frequent guest on HGTV programs before starring on "reDesign"). The Louisiana native's tasteful take on interiors always results in interesting transformations, and his warm and bubbly personality lends itself to easily understood explanations of how the creative process unfolds. Brown's natural inclination to always work closely with clients and clearly explain his reasoning during the redesigns also helps viewers understand his process for redefining spaces.
Douyin and ZJTV team up to produce a program that gathers more than 30 musicians, powerful singers and new generation musicians in the form of hot songs VS new songs. The "hundred praise" group praises and evaluates each artist on the spot.
Peking Express is a Dutch/Flemish reality game show that follows a series of couples as they hitchhike to or from Beijing. The series has already gone through 7 seasons. In the Netherlands it is screened by Net 5 and in Belgium by VT4.
Junior Masterchef Sweden is a Swedish cooking competition involving children from the ages of 8–13 and airs on TV4 on Wednesdays, starting in 2014. Each week, the children compete in different cooking related competitions and two contestants are eliminated until a winner is crowned.
Features a dozen promising girl and boy dancers, ages 6 through 13, competing for a $100,000 cash prize and a scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York.
Everyday meals are turned into extraordinary culinary creations in a magical food competition on an edible set. The UK's most talented food lovers are challenged to produce meals that must impress with originality, visuals and extraordinary flavours.