‘Top Chef’ Season 21 Crowns Winner On Bravo

SPOILER ALERT:This list contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The Bear.” “The Bear” wowed audiences in Season 2 with a head-spinning number of guest stars, most of them appearing in one episode as members of the extended Berzatto family. Many of those guest stars — Jamie Lee Curtis, John Mulaney, Gillian Jacobs — are back in Season 3, as well as fan favorites Olivia Colman and Will Poulter, who play fictional chefs in Carmy’s (Jeremy Allen White) orbit. Among the newbies this season are a murderer’s row of culinary legends playing themselves, the real-life spouse of a “Bear” cast member who now plays their on-screen spouse, and a certain WWE star-turned-actor.

When the FX drama “The Bear” arrived out of nowhere in the summer of 2021, it was thrilling, a bolt of “Uncut Gems”-like electricity coursing through the veins of damaged, traumatized characters trying to survive not only the high-pressure-cooker stress of a highly dysfunctional kitchen setting but their highly dysfunctional and broken lives. Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Cousin Ritchie on the show, perfectly described the series in our season one interview as “high-sodium volatility”; no one was coked up on drugs per se (though sometimes they were), but the surging blood pressure anxieties of their environment and lives made for a brilliantly toxic and gripping show about generational trauma, grinding through life and surviving grief.

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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for “The Bear,” including a surprise cameo. Matty Matheson has spent his career running restaurants. Now, he’s focused on a fictional one. With FX’s “The Bear,” the Toronto-based celebrity chef and restaurateur added actor to his resume, playing the loud, lovable and sometimes immature handyman Neil Fak in addition to his role as a culinary consultant and producer on the show.

Max‘s And Just Like That… is shaping its third season with three new cast additions and two promotions as production continues in New York City.

Selome Hailu “And Just Like That” has added Logan Marshall-Green, Mehcad Brooks and Jonathan Cake to its Season 3 cast as recurring guest stars. Additionally, Season 2 recurring guest stars Sebastiano Pigazzi and Dolly Wells have been upped to series regulars. Pigazzi plays Giuseppe, who dates Anthony (Mario Cantone), while Wells plays Joy, a colleague of Miranda (Cynthia Nixon).

FX’s highly acclaimed, highly anticipated dysfunctional kitchen/family drama “The Bear” returned to Hulu yesterday, June 26, to much online fanfare (fans were binge-watching the series immediately). Created by Christopher Storer and co-showrun by Storer and Joanna Calo, the two sole directors on the series thus far aside from a Ramy Youseff (“Ramy”) directorial guest spot in season two and a new slate of directors scheduled for season three, earlier this year, it was reported that “The Bear” was scheduled to shoot season three and four back to back.

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: The following piece evaluates Season 3 of “The Bear.” While major plot developments — including guest stars — have been withheld to preserve the viewing experience, the network has requested spoiler warnings on all reviews. The second, much-improved season of “The Bear” was defined by a sense of momentum. Its 10 episodes were transitional in a literal sense, taking the FX half-hour from the closure of a family-owned Italian beef shop in Chicago’s River North to the opening of a fine dining concept in the same space.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large AMC Networks has staked its claim for more “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.” The series has been renewed for Season 3 on AMC and streaming outlet AMC+, the outlets announced Wednesday. News comes just days before the show’s Season 2 finale (which airs June 30).

Basketball star Caitlin Clark, whose stellar year included breaking an NCAA scoring record and becoming the first pick the WNBA draft, leads all athletes with three nominations for the 2024 Espy Awards that were unveiled Wednesday.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Here’s something to cheer aboot: Bravo‘s next season of “Top Chef” will be set in Canada. The news was announced by host Kristen Kish and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons in a video posted to the official “Top Chef” social channels Thursday.

The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach has reflected on the success of the hit kitchen drama, but admitted there’s one slight drawback to the show’s popularity.In a new interview with The Guardian, the actor, who plays “Cousin” Richie on the show, spoke about the FX series’ international appeal.“I was on top of a little mountain outside Kyoto and a Korean couple came up to me and were saying how much they love the show.”He added, however, that constantly having fans come up to him and yell “Cousin!” has become somewhat tiresome.“I get a lot of comments. People yell ‘Cousin!’ at me all day,” he said.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Ever since snatching the season 16 crown on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” life for Nymphia Wind has been nothing short of a whirlwind experience. She has performed for the President of Taiwan, opened for Steve Aoki at the Gold Gala after party, joined her fellow queens at the Critics Choice Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Television and, earlier this month, performed at Vice President Kamala Harris’ Pride Celebration in Washington D.C. She has yet to sit down and have an “Oh God, I won” moment — and she has no intention of stopping for one.

The Boys season four.Developed by showrunner Eric Kripke, the satirical superhero series follows a group of vigilantes as they try and take down superpowered individuals who abuse their powers.In the fourth season, Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is running to become vice president of the US, under Homelander’s thumb (Antony Starr).

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the season finale of “Top Chef.” The utensils are down, the knives are packed, and “Top Chef” has crowned its latest winner. Season 21 began in Wisconsin before decamping for the Caribbean, where contestants visited Curaçao and Aruba between cooking meals on a massive cruise ship. In the final episode, Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller and Danny Garcia were each tasked with cooking the best meal of their lives in the hope that alumna and new host Kristen Kish would declare them the latest Top Chef.

Alison Herman TV Critic Season 21 of “Top Chef” was the venerated food competition’s first without longtime host Padma Lakshmi. Nevertheless, the show adapted without her, and will culminate on June 19 with a finale set aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Out of 16 chefs who competed in Wisconsin, judges Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Kristen Kish — a former winner who stepped into Lakshmi’s role — have narrowed the field to just three contenders: Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller and Danny Garcia.

Wilmer Valderrama unfortunately won’t be making an appearance in the new season of That ’90s Show.

The Bear,” competing for the comedy trophy, overflowed with compelling storytelling, but only one episode, titled “Fishes,” was submitted. On the drama side, FX’s “Shōgun” was strong over the course of 10 episodes. However, the premiere, “Anjin,” is impossible to ignore.

Before Marvel movies would fill slots on a schedule, Jerry Bruckheimer productions did, and still do.

Ethan Shanfeld There must be cause for celebration at Lumon Industries, as Mark Scout carries balloons through the office’s frightening, fluorescent hallways. Is that his face on them? “Your innie has already seen this image,” taunted Apple TV+ in a social media post revealing a first look at “Severance” Season 2 featuring Adam Scott. The sci-fi series went into production on Season 2 in October 2022 but was then delayed due to creative disputes and then the dual Hollywood strikes.