Anthony Bourdain News

Beginning April 22, 2013, the G4 network will be rebranded the Esquire Network, it was announced today. The network is a strategic partnership between NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines to create the only television network aimed at the full, multi-faceted lives of today's modern men.

ABC celebrates your favorite ABC sweethearts with live Twitter chats from various cast members during their Valentine's Day-inspired episodes, as well as non-Valentine's Day episodes.

Below, meet the judges of ABC's new alternitive series THE TASTE - no-holds barred chef Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson, expert chef/author Ludovic Lefebvre and chef/restaurateur Brian Malarkey. The series airs Tuesdays at 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET.

On the next episode of ABC's new reality show THE TASTE, the competition gets underway as Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey roll up their sleeves with their teams of four cooks to help create the best tasting "comfort food" dishes. Get a sneak peek below!

Deadline reports that the Ridley Scott-produced series CRIMES OF THE CENTURY will soon begin airing on CNN on weekends later this year.

Anthony Bourdain's & Eric Ripert's Good vs. Evil Tour (www.goodvseviltour.com) will stop by Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) for one night only on Thursday, May 2 at 7:30P where they will share stories and muse on the place of food in our personal, community, and global life. After the show, Providence's own Local 121 (www.local121.com) will be catering the VIP post show event. Two hundred fans attending the performance will be treated to a special menu and a meet and greet with Mr. Bourdain and Mr. Ripert.

Mark Whitaker, EVP and managing editor of CNN, announced today in a letter to colleagues that he will be leaving his post. As a result, new CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker will take over the duties handled by Whitaker, who's position will not be filled.

Famed chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, along with his friend Zamir Gotta, traveled toRussia in an episode of the Emmy Award-winning television show, 'No Reservations,' encapsulating his experience with the following words: 'We've seen something of the Russian soul, and the Russian soul food. And I think we've learned that the two always go hand-in-hand.' To share the beauty and tradition of Russian cooking comes the new cookbook by Ekaterina and Liudmila Bylinka, Home Cooking from Russia: a collection of traditional, yet contemporary recipes(published by AuthorHouse).

ABC's new cooking competition series, "The Taste," produced by Kinetic Content, has created multi-platform integration partnerships with several of the nation's leading advertisers, it was announced today. Premiering with a special two-hour episode on TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 at 8:00 p.m., ET, the series features four of the most acclaimed masters in the food world -- Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey -- who will act as "taste" mentors to 16 contestants made up of professional chefs and home cooks. At the end of each episode, the mentors will have to judge the competitors' dishes blind, with no knowledge of whose creation they're sampling, what they're eating, how it was prepared or whom they could be sending home.

One blind spoonful could change everything, on the all new alternative series, THE TASTE, premiering with a two-hour show TONIGHT, JANUARY 22 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET; the show moves to its regular 8:00-9:00 p.m. time period on January 29), on The ABC Television Network.

n the two-hour series premiere,of ABC's THE TASTE entitled "Auditions Part 1," the pressure is on when Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludovic Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey put 29 professional chefs and home cooks through their first grueling round of blind taste tests -- in which just a single spoonful will decide whether or not they make it past the audition phase and into the competition. Get a sneak peek below!

One blind spoonful could change everything on ABC's all-new alternative series, "THE TASTE, an exhilarating one-hour cooking competition that puts 16 culinary competitors - from pro chefs to home cooks -- to the fire with four of the world's most notable masters of the food world who will judge their creations based on a blind taste test.

On the two-hour premiere episode of THE TASTE, the pressure is on when mentors Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey put dozens of professional chefs and home cooks through their first round of blind taste tests, where just a single spoonful will decide whether or not they make it past the audition phase and into the competition, airing Tuesday, January 22 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on The ABC Television Network. Check out a first look at the premiere episode below!

One blind spoonful could change everything, on the all new alternative series, THE TASTE, premiering with a two-hour show TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET; the show moves to its regular 8:00-9:00 p.m. time period on January 29), on The ABC Television Network.