Real TV Cooking? Kitchen Confidential a la Sex and the City

By JULIETTE ROSSANT [Editor's Note: update available -- Kitchen Confidential: Spiceless] Darren Star, creator of HBO's hit comedy Sex in the City, has committed to taking a stab at scripting a 30-minute series about chefs. The show will be based on bad-boy author-chef Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential for Fox. New Line has book rights and thus will co-produce as New Line TV with Darren Star Productions and 20th Century Fox Television. It's a bit overwhelming, in that we've had so many loser chef shows on mainstream television over the past few years, at least on NBC with Emeril and The Restaurant. Luckily, Emeril Lagasse already had a hit show on the Food Network as his day job: Rocco has subsequently crashed and burned (see previous entries, listed below). For 2005, we've already got new Reality TV chef shows coming up on the Food Network with Iron Chef America (see previous article) and even on the (once) venerable PBS with Todd English's American Chef (see previous article) -- what will they think of next? The good thing for Anthony is that he falls into the Emeril category rather than Rocco when it comes to risk -- he's got a daytime job, too. Update: Kitchen Confidential: Spiceless Previous articles: Iron Chef: America vs. USA Rocco DiSpirito: Be Warned By Me Claude Troisgros: Riding De Rocco DiSpirito Star Rocco Barred From Reality TV Restaurant, Rocco: Trapped in Reality TV's Twilight Zone? Todd English: American Chef Gone Wild Technorati Tags: superchefblog, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, Television --> back to superchefblog