Food Network to rebrand as SBS Food and feature more Australian talent
SBS’ Food Network is to be rebranded as SBS Food from November 17, the broadcaster has announced.
The news comes as SBS’ three-year deal with US-based Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI), the channel’s major supplier, expires.
According to Marshall Heald, SBS’ director of TV and online content, the rebranded channel will feature a wider mix of Australian and global food personalities, including Adam Liaw, Poh Ling Yeow, Shane Delia, Peter Kuruvita, Luke Nguyen and for the first time Maeve O’Meara.
Global chefs to be featured on the rebranded channel will include Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver and Kylie Kwong.
Heald said: “We’re excited to continue to discover and nurture home-grown talent and develop new programs following the success we’ve had introducing fresh new local faces to Australian audiences over the last 12 months.”
The newly-rebranded SBS Food will remain on channel 33, and will continue to air on SBS On Demand.
That can only be good news. Hopefully this means that SBS loses those god-awful USA reality tv cooking programs and (here’s an idea) sources cooking/food shows from around the world.
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Anyone wanting more Food Network originated content can continue to watch the Food Network stream on the Fetch platform.
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No more Mystery Diners or Bizarre Foods?! Two of my favourite guilty pleasure shows.
Glad the network is continuing with new content, and I’m sure it will still be very watchable.
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Kieran Gilbert is a pleasure to watch in the morning.What a pity the morning shows are being ruined by adding Laura Jayes to the show.Please Sky News leave the show for Kieran to present and get rid of Laura.
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Agreed! They should air the original Iron Chef.
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Food Network is moving to 74
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I think Mystery Diners is the worst fake crap ever but we’re all different.
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Mystery Diners will definitely be missed…
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Congratulations SBS for changing to hopefully better quality food shows, 33 is pretty much my most watched channel except for those “horrible American fattening vomit food shows” good riddance. I would love to see a list of what we can expect in future.
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I think SBS will continue to struggle. I notice 33 playing re-runs of the Cook & the Chef. I would have expected to see more diversity from around the world, instead its a poorly cobbled together lineup at a discount purchase. Then we have Vice on 32, to appeal to a younger demographic? This would be the same demographic that increasingly is turning to online viewing for its content. Some months ago i stumbled across a TV guide from 1988, based on what I reading, SBS of old, was a diverse rich mix of programming with genuine international content. Now its a poor pastiche! Shame.
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We have just loved The Chef’s Line. Will there be a 3rd Series? Please, please, please.
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Disappointed with new line up. Very repetitive. I miss the American shows plus where was all the christmas cooking shows last month?? I prefer the old line up.
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I don’t mind that they are adding new things and expanding the channel but when u change the name of something that ppl know u by it’s gets mighty confusing and I don’t like the rebranded name the food network was the perfect name for the channel why change what’s already perfect?
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How is it fake crap?
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The rebrand has completely ruined the channel I certainly won’t be watching it anymore
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I like the original better… hoping they’d bring it back…
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It’s completely scripted with paid actors, a lot of what’s shown on mystery diners is pure fabrication, in saying that the show was a good laugh, but can’t say i’m going to miss it.
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I always had my tv on food network. Now I only see the cook and the chef. Seriously what happened to this channel. Get some variety back please. I only watch this channel once a month now.
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Omg how many EPs of the cook and the p__f can you destroy this station with? Everytime I turn on what used to be a great treat seems to have become made up of 90% one show, yea sure it does have a slight quirkyness but really you have killed it. It’s very obvious that SBS has chosen the cheap and nasty option of trying to make us believe they are looking after our best interests by delivering us more Australian content, come on we all know you don’t want to pay the money for all the shows we really want to see!!!
Lost this viewer
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This mornings show 5/6/19 on the history/ science of food is wrong I was looking for another word but it is simply wrong .The nonsense that was presented by the bloke from the uni was complete hogwash. Aquatic life has been a staple diet of cultures world wide from earliest of times . The complete disregard of the program and its participants of the history of food in this country shows how entrenched English version history and reality still pervades this country. Persisting with the myth of Terra nullius. Australia’s first peoples had/have a diverse dietary input from the flora and fauna of this country.Their observation and recording of seasonal are more exact; than the crude four seasons,that is used by western society. This knowledge is known by SBS. so why leave it out Peter Ward 0265482552
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Really miss the Food Network. Please bring it back. There is absolutely nothing good in the SBS channel except for endless ways to cook Asian food. Absolutely loved the Barefoot Contessa and The Pioneer Woman. There was also no Christmas shows on last Christmas. Really loved watching them and getting ideas. Please bring Food Network back.
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