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The ABC Television Network announced midseason premiere dates today for new series "The Assets," "Killer Women," "Mind Games," and "Mixology."

Celebrity chef, restaurateur and author Marcus Samuelsson has joined ABC's cooking competition show 'The Taste' as its newest mentor. Chef Samuelsson joins chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, British food star Nigella Lawson and chef and author Ludo Lefebvre as they begin production on the show's second season (airdate TBD).

The Los Angeles Times today announced the program schedule for the 18th annual Festival of Books, the largest and most prestigious public literary event in North America. The free-to-the-public weekend of activities has become an L.A. institution, evolving to encompass more than 400 award-winning and celebrity authors and chefs, local musicians, political experts and entertainers engaging in stimulating debates, the exploration of entrepreneurial ideas and revelry under the California sun.

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.

MasterCard is partnering with GRAMMY -nominated artist Little Big Town in support of its sponsorship of the 55th GRAMMY Awards on February 10, 2013. The band will serve as “on-the-scene” correspondents throughout the GRAMMY celebrations, giving fans an inside look into what it's like to be a part of Music's Biggest Night.

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!

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.

THE TASTE, a new one-hour alternative series from Kinetic Content will premiere in 2013 on the ABC Television Network, featuring superstar food judges Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Brian Malarkey, and Ludo Lefebvre. Check out a first look at the judges below!

Famed culinary experts Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey are confirmed to join no-holds-barred chef Anthony Bourdain and British food star Nigella Lawson as Mentors on eight episodes of ABC's innovative new cooking competition show, THE TASTE.

ABC announced midseason premiere dates for new dramas "Red Widow" and "Zero Hour" today, along with new comedies "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" and "Family Tools," and new alternative series "The Taste" and "Celebrity Diving."

Famed culinary experts Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey are confirmed to join no-holds-barred chef Anthony Bourdain and British food star Nigella Lawson as Mentors on eight episodes of ABC's innovative new cooking competition show, "The Taste." Bourdain and Lawson are also executive producers. The new one-hour alternative series from Kinetic Content will premiere in 2013 on the ABC Television Network.

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