Kick It Up a Notch and Win Fabulous Prizes


m! He slices, he dices, he even blackens fish but can super-chef Emeril Lagasse host a game show?

Already the host of at least two other television programs - to say nothing of his work at Food Network - Lagasse is scheduled to shoot a pilot for a game show to replace CBS's long-running but out-going daytime soap, As the World Turns. Contestants, apparently chosen from the audience, will vie for riches but they won't be buying vowels or identifying great moments in history to claim their prizes: they'll be cooking. ("Emeril, I'll take a teaspoon of thyme and a clove of garlic for $500, please.")

The pilot's producers, Fremantle Media, insist the pilot follows a completely original format, but Buzzerblog notes it's not the first time a cooking-oriented game show has hit the airwaves. The venerable BBC introduced Ready, Steady, Cook! back in 1994 and it's still on the air although their contestants tend, now, to include more celebrity chefs than the culinarily-challenged.

Still, it's kind of nice to think your long under-utilized talent for creating perfectly round melon balls might actually win a prize or two. Feel the love, indeed.

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