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10 bakers will try their best to whip up creations that are recognizable on Netflix’s The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge. In addition to justified humiliation, the new Nailed It format offers the chosen bakers a shot at actually getting better and learning tricks of the trade from world-renowned pastry chefs.

Nicole Byer returns as host along with her sidekick, head judge Jacques Torres. Baking expert Erin Jeanne McDowell and cake artist Robert Lucas mentor the bakers in hopes of turning them into better versions of their baking selves.

Byer, Casey Kriley, Jo Sharon, Gaylen Gawlowski, Claire Kosloff, and Hillary Olsen serve as executive producers. The 10-episode season is set to premiere on August 4, 2023.

Nicole Byer, Jacques Torres, Robert Lucas, and Erin Jeanne McDowell in ‘The Big Nailed It: Baking Challenge’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix © 2023)

The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:

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Are you a wiz in the kitchen who thinks you could take on some of the best professional chefs in the country? If so, good news: Bravo has ordered “Top Chef Amateurs,” a new culinary competition series hosted by Gail Simmons, which will feature home cooks competing against “Top Chef” alums.

Per Bravo, the new Magical Elves-produced show “gives talented home cooks the opportunity of lifetime to test their skills in the illustrious ‘Top Chef’ kitchen. Each amateur chef will compete in some of the most iconic challenges from the ‘Top Chef’ archives. Unpacking their knives to step in alongside Simmons are ‘Top Chef’ finalists, frontrunners and fan favorites Eric Adjepong, Richard Blais, Jennifer Carroll, Shirley Chung, Stephanie Cmar, Tiffany Derry, Joe Flamm, Gregory Gourdet, Melissa King, Kwame Onwuachi, Dale Talde and Isaac Toups.”

Bravo, which is currently in production on Season 18 of “Top Chef” in Portland under Covid-19 safety protocols,...

Bravo has greenlit “Top Chef Amateurs,” to be hosted by longtime “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons. Production on the show will begin later this month in Portland, Ore., where the next season of “Top Chef” has been filming under Covid-19 protocols. “Top Chef Amateurs” will be produced in a similar production bubble, and will premiere next year.

On each episode of “Top Chef Amateurs,” two home cooks will compete against one another, duel-style, in famous challenges from previous seasons of the original show. There will be an interactive component this week, in which fans can vote on Twitter, tagging @BravoTopChef, to decide whether the classic challenge seven deadly sins (a seven-course meal inspired by the sins) or the aphrodisiac challenge will be featured in the new competition show. Voting takes place Tuesday through Friday, and the winning challenge will be announced on Oct. 26.

Past “Top Chef” stars — Eric Adjepong, Richard Blais,...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix is dropping new episodes of “Nailed It!” in April and Quibi released the official trailer for “Murder House Flip.”

Dates

Netflix is dropping Season 4 of “Nailed It!” on Wednesday, April 1. The show, hosted by Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres, follows home-bakers, who have a poor track record in the kitchen, as they take a shot at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. The show is produced by Magical Elves with Casey Kriley, Patrick Doody and Gayle Gawlowski serving as executive producers. Watch the official trailer of the upcoming Season 4 below.

First Looks

Quibi has released the official trailer of “Murder House Flip.” The unconventional new home renovation show takes on the country’s most infamous homes in which there have been mysterious murders. Homeowners turn to high-end renovation experts, Mikel Welch and Joelle Uzyel, to take these homes from “morbid to marvelous.” “Murder...

Former Paradigm agents Julie Choi and Sean Zeid have moved to Apa as Vice Presidents in the agency’s Alternative & Factual Programming division. The announcement was made today by Apa Executive Vice President, Partner and Department Head, Hayden K. Meyer, to whom they report.

“Apa and our division are proud to have Julie and Sean join our team,” said Meyer in making the announcement. “Their individual and collective passion, creativity, experience and relationships make them must-hires. They fit perfectly into Apa’s team-oriented culture, and together we’ll continue to accomplish great things for all our clients.”

A seasoned entertainment executive who built her agency career on her background as a producer and network executive, Choi’s clients include tWitch (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Ross Mathews, Kimberly Goodman, Jen Morton, and Michael Levitt.

Before pivoting to agent, Choi was Executive Director of Development and Programming at Gsn where she served as point person on hit series such as Skin Wars, Fresh Paint, Minute to Win It, Window Warriors, and Divided. Prior to Gsn, Choi was a producer on numerous unscripted series, including Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother, The Biggest Loser and Parental Control, and served as a creative development consultant for FremantleMedia, Bet and CW. She holds a Juris Doctor and a BA in Political Science from UCLA.

Zeid, an alum of Variety’s Reality Television Impact Report, most recently served as Senior Agent, Alternative Television at Paradigm. His clients include Gayle Gawlowski (Nailed It!), Will Spjut (Stay Here), Tamra Simmons (Surviving R. Kelly), Leslie Garvin (Secret Millionaire), Andrea Richter (Ink Master) and Melissa Haizlip, and Painless Productions (The Holzer Files). Zeid also has packaged numerous projects for his clients, including Believer, the HBO documentary from Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds.

Prior to Paradigm, Zeid spent seven years leading the reality division at Kaplan Stahler Agency, and began his agency career at Endeavor.

Netflix has renewed the reality baking competition series “Nailed It!” for a third season, set to premiere globally on May 17.

The show is a twist on traditional cooking shows, by bringing together home bakers who make up for their lack of skill with their enthusiastic attitudes. Comedian Nicole Byer and renowned pastry chef Jacques Torres host and judge the chaos in the kitchen, from half-baked doll cakes to delightfully creepy edible clowns. The baker who makes the best (or least terrible) recreation can take home a $10,000 prize.

On the upcoming six-episode season, viewers will be treated to challenges like the Marvel showdown, where bakers must make Marvel-themed cupcakes and a daunting “Black Panther” cake. Actress and gaming icon Felicia Day joins the judge’s panel. Other episodes include “Cake-o-Phobia,” featuring bug cookies and a clown cake; a cake replica of Michelangelo’s “David”; Neanderthal cupcakes and a T. rex cake...

“Nailed It!” is coming back for a third season at Netflix, with hosts Nicole Byer and pastry chef Jacques Torres once again at the helm of this hot mess of a baking competition. Six new episodes will launch on Netflix May 17.

The series follows contestants with questionable baking skills trying to recreate culinary masterpieces for the chance to win a $10,000 prize. The crazy challenges the bakers will be tasked with this season include a “Black Panther” cake, a cotton-candy flavored clown cake, a cake-replica of Michelangelo’s statue of David, a T. rex cake, a fondant-covered doll cake, and a layered bust of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In each episode, contestants compete in two challenges. In the first, called “Baker’s Choice,” they choose a cake to recreate. The winner of round one gets a special prize and a golden chef’s hat. In the second challenge, “Nail It or Fail It,...

Digest this: Netflix has renewed its baking competition series Nailed It! for a third season and set a May 17 global launch date.

Hosted by Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres, the series sees home bakers with a terrible track record take a shot at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. As the streamer puts it: Nailed It! is part competition, part hot mess.

The baking series format has been on, well, a roll lately. Netflix launched a local version of the show in Mexico two months ago, and the format is set for local productions in France, Spain and Germany. No details on dates or judges for the Euro takes on the baking show, but the Mexico version was hosted by comedian Omar Chaparro and chef Anna Ruiz with a series of guest judges including Sylvia Weinstock.

The U.S. take on Nailed It! went live in March 2018 and was followed...

On today’s TV roundup, the trailer for “Shameless” Season 9 drops and NBC announces its inaugural Female Forward Class.

Casting

ABC has added Garcelle Beauvais as a recurring guest star in Season 2 of “Siren,” which began production today in Vancouver. Beauvais plays Susan Bishop, Maddie’s (Fola Evans-Akingbola) mom and Dale’s (Gil Birmingham) wife, who abandoned her family for the past 10 months. She is back in Bristol Cove and ready to make amends with her family.

Dates

MTV announced the new season of “Ridiculousness” will premiere on an all-new night beginning Sunday, Aug. 5 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. Host Rob Dyrdek returns with Chanel West Coast and Steelo Brim to dissect the internet’s most provocative and absurd viral videos. Special guests this season include Olympic athletes Adam Rippon, Chloe Kim and Laurie Hernandez, pop-rap duo Jack & Jack, “Wild ‘N Out” star Justina Valentina and more.

Greenlights

Netflix has greenlit a Christmas-themed “Nailed It!

Today, Netflix announced second seasons for several unscripted original series: Dope, Drug Lords, Nailed It!, Queer Eye and The Toys That Made Us.

“These series are indicative of what we’re trying to accomplish for Netflix unscripted: working with world-class producers to create the best unscripted shows on television,” said Bela Bajaria, Vice President of Content for Netflix. “These series elevate the genre with innovative takes on familiar formats. They deliver immersive and nuanced stories. They elicit so many emotions from viewers, from tears of laughter to tears of joy – and that’s just Queer Eye.”

Netflix ordered second seasons of the following unscripted originals:

Dope

A docu-series filmed from the perspective of dealers, users and the police, this vivid series features a bracing look at the war on drugs.

Season two starts April 20, 2018.

Dope is produced by Wall to Wall Media Ltd., with Jeremy Dear and Chris Lent serving...

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Modern Family, Mad Men and HBO were among the major winners at last night's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. The ABC series snagged awards for supporting actor Eric Stonestreet, Christopher Lloyd’s writing and Outstanding Comedy Series, while Mad Men was named Outstanding Drama Series and won for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. HBO’s Temple Grandin, You Don’t Know Jack and The Pacific also all received at least one award.

Other series that received Primetime Emmys included Fox’s high school musical, Glee, AMC’s Breaking Bad, CBS’s superior legal drama, The Good Wife and one of yours truly's favorites, Big Bang Theory. Bazinga!

The CBS sitcom was named in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for the performances of Jim Parsons. Parsons plays uber-geek, antisocialite and self-confessed physics genius Sheldon Cooper. You can see Parson's...

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the 2009-2010 Primetime Emmys for programs and individual achievements on the .62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. originating on the NBC Television Network from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Sunday. The Academy’s Chairman & CEO John Shaffner participated in the awards ceremony. Don Mischer was Executive Producer of the telecast. In addition to Emmys in 26 categories announced tonight, Emmys in 74 other categories and areas for programs and individual achievements were presented at the Creative Arts Awards on August 21, 2010 from the Nokia Theatre. HBO, AMC were the big winners at the 62nd Primetime Emmys, while ABC and CBS were the top broadcast Networks.

Biggest shocks on Sunday night.

7 time Emmy winner, The Amazing Race, was brought down by fellow reality series Top Chef. Previous Emmy champs, Tony Shaloub and Alec Baldwin were brought down hard by Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons!