Marco Pierre White Coming to American TV — Try to Stay AwakeAccording to Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY, Marco Pierre White is coming to NBC as star of the latest food reality show, The Chopping Block, an Apprentice-like elimination series about eight couples running two competing restaurants in New York. This show might actually be good: White is a true mentor, rather than a self-aggrandizing ogre after the mode of his former protégé, Gordon Ramsay, and NBC’s track record in food reality TV is short but stellar, with both The Restaurant and Top Chef to its credit. Not only will we be able to write about the show, but also to dine in! The restaurants the contestants create will be open for business, just like Rocco’s unlucky venture a few years ago — but there weren’t nearly as many food blogs back then.
Marco Pierre White Tapped for NBC’s New ‘Top Chef’/Hell’s Kitchen Killer [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
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