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ITV competitive eating documentary / 200+ English eating challenges
update Jan 24, 2014 Additional challenges have been added since this list was posted. See http://eatfeats.com/calendar/UnitedKingdom.html (600+ challenges) and http://eatfeats.com/calendar/England.html for updated lists.
ITV in Great Britain are running a documentary about competitive eating in the UK and USA titled All You Can Eat at 9 pm and 10 pm British time tonight. (Liverpool Echo article)
A listing of over 200 English eating challenges in the eatfeats database follows after the jump. Other websites about UK food challenges are The Food Project and MenVsFoodUk Read the rest of this entry »
The documentary The Story of Furious Pete is now available for purchase on furiouspete.com
A documentary will be produced about a road trip to Toronto for tomorrow's poutine eating contest will star Micah Collins, Larell Marie Mele, Bill Myers and Bob Shoudt. (This will not be the first project about a voyage to Yonge Street (site of the contest) to seek fortune; an SCTV sketch from 1982 Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice has the same subject.)
The right sidebar for the Kickstarter page for the competitive eating documentary Hungry lists an estimated date for the premier and DVD availability in August 2012. The project reached its funding threshold of $10,000 six months ago on March 13. update Barry Rothbart reponds: "Don't worry. The world is about to experience Hungry. And it will rattle Competitve Eating"
1998 World Trade Center qualifier clips in Footlong documentary
Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.
Hold the Soup, a documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest, can be viewed on youtube. Don Lerman, Ron Koch, Brian Seiken, Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti are interviewed.
MyKMTV has produced a trailer for an upcoming documentary about Filipino competitive eater / weightlifter Justin Cardano. (I thought the project might be a parody, but here is a blog entry about a contest won by Cardano.)
An upcoming documentary about competitive eating for the ITV network will be recorded at Burgers at Blacks in Purley, England on August 16. The restaurant offers an eating challenge billed as Europe's largest burger.
With the deadline less than 24 hours away, the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary has reached its Kickstarter funding goal of $10,000.
There are five days left until the March 13 Kickstarter deadline for the "Hungry" documentary. There is currently about a $2,000 difference between the amount currently pledged and the $10,0000 funding threshold.
The new poll asks how you think the upcoming competitive eating documentary "Hungry" will be distributed, which is now 2/3 of the way to its funding goal of $10K.
The kickstarter page for the competitive eating documentary "Hungry" is now 2/3 ($6610) of the way to its funding goal of $10,000 after receiving a pledge of $5000 which will give its donor executive producer billing.
Will Millender reports that a Kickstarter has a page seeking to raise $10,000 by March 13 for post-production of the documentary "Hungry", which will cover 366 days in competitive eating from July 4, 2010 to July 4, 2011. The page incorrectly says that prize money for the Nathan's women's division was less than the male awards; the payouts were made equal after public outcry.
The New York Times has mini-documentary about Bill "El Wingador" Simmons produced when famed filmmaker Errol Morris recorded a commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Winagador says he ate 23 hot dogs in six minutes in a Nathan's final (via jskoff)
In a pitch to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Jeff Cerulli says his competitive eating documentary will "change the way people look at C.E." (Mark Cuban's HDNet televised several IFOCE programs around 2004-2006.)
The Kickstarter page seeking funding to produce a pilot episode of The Hungry Todd Rungy Show announces that the project has exceeded its funding goal of $6,000 before its December 31 deadline. (via Patrick Michels email)
Kickstarter has a page seeking to raise $6,000 by December 31 to fund the production of the pilot episode of The Hungry Todd Rungy Show. $1,980 has already been raised.
TimesLedger has an article about Barry Rothbart, co-director of the upcoming competitive eating documentary Hungry. Rothbart appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" last month and will co-host the upcoming season of Punk'd on MTV. update A 15 second teaser for the documentary is available.
Dave Wagner was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on competitive eating about recording a controversial video at last year's Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, CA. He thinks the documentary, which is hoping for a late August release, will be critical of the IFOCE.
Jon Squibb announces that he will appear in a documentary about competitive eating.
BeautifulBrian.com reports that Ray "The Bison" Meduna appeared in a documentary that will be available soon.
The Vancouver Courier has a review of The Story of Furious Pete advising Pete Czerwinski to quit competitive eating.
ChannelCanada has the listings for The Story of Furious Pete. The documentary will be televised in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario this month.
Furious Pete's facebook page announces that his documentary will be shown at the Flagstaff Mountain film festival on Sunday, October 10.
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