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The Story of Furious Pete is Moviefone's Hot Docs Doc of the Day. The documentary includes a segment about Pete's exclusion from the IFOCE.
The Don Lerman and Tim Janus episodes of Eats of Strength are being televised tonight on the Bravo Channel in the United Kingdom (go to 00:00 on May 9)
(via Newsflash comment) NBCWashington has a video of Sonya Thomas' recent appearance on the Daily Connection where she ate 43 jalapeno peppers in a minute. Sonya said her waistline was 23 inches.
DOCspace.ca has an interview with George Tsioutsioulas, director of The Story of Furious Pete.
Eater.com has an interview with Kristyn Pomranz and Katherine Steinberg, the writers of Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical which will hold a staged reading in New York City Monday. One of the play's characters is named Joey Cashew.
The Canadian Press article about The Story of Furious Pete has been picked up by MSN of Canada.

Nightline “Man vs. Food” segment available online

Last night’s Nightline segment about Man vs. Food can be viewed online. Host Martin Bashir calls the star of the program “Alan Richman” in his introduction. John Berman attempts the “Stupid Wing” challenge at Caliente in Richmond in the segment.

RVANews and RichmondBizSense have articles about the upcoming Richmond episode of Man vs. Food.

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Amy Lawrence reports that Man vs. Food will be recording at Cattlemen's Steakhouse in Oklahoma City Sunday.
BrooklynSharon reports that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will appear on ABC News Nightline tomorrow. update ABC News confirms the appearance

The Story of Furious Pete reviews

"Furious" Pete Czerwinski ate a whole watermelon in 1:32 at an eating contest held during last night's premiere of his documentary.
ABCNews has a video of John Berman of Nightline attempting the "Stupid Wing" challenge at Caliente in Richmond, VA while being coached by Adam Richman.
MovieTalkFest has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski and his documentary. Pete says he thinks he could earn $100,000 a year in IFOCE contests if he was allowed to compete in them.

Furious Pete interview in The Globe and Mail

“Furious” Pete Czerwinski and George Tsioutsioulas, director of The Story of Furious Pete, have interviews in the Toronto Globe and Mail which is currently the most popular article in the health section. NOW Toronto also has an article.

update #2 Furious Pete did an Egg McMuffin eating contest on the Dean Blundell show this morning.

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Around the 50 minute mark of Bill Simmons April 22 ESPN.com podcast with "reality TV czar" Dave Jacoby, a show called Lethal Ingestion is proposed where death row inmates would receive a pardon if they won an eating contest held during their last meals.
Tickets ($10) are on sale for the May 10 staged reading of Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical at The Red Room in Manhattan. (via Kelly Reeves)
Emizzle03 reports that Man vs. Food recorded at Port Royal Pub and Grille in Islip, Long Island yesterday.
CNN.com: A new gay character, Kevin Keller, will be introduced to readers of Archie Comics when he defeats Archie's friend Jughead, famed for his eating prowess, in a burger eating contest.
Zeste.tv has desciptions in French about the Man vs. Food episodes it is televising. The French name for the program is Casse-croûte à l'américaine

Three “Outrageous Food” restaurants

Here are three restaurants that will appear on Outrageous Food on the Food Network on Saturday at 10 pm eastern.

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Furious Pete Czerwinski's twitter announces that The Story of Furious Pete is the most viewed film in the Hot Docs documentary festival.
In honor or 420 day, the blog for G4 TV has a list of the top five food-related video games.

Competitive goldfish eating “mockumentary” debuts

The Story of Furious Pete is not the only competitive eating film to debut at a Great Lakes film festival this month. Jared Mobarak has a review of Bad Fish a “mockumentary” about competitive goldfish eating which was screened on April 16 at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. The protagonists are members of NICCAGE (The National and International Community of Competitors in the Association of Goldfish Eating). The film includes footage from the Buffalo Wing Festival.

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Sarah Rosenberg, a producer for ABC News, reports that a film crew from Nightline was present at Buz & Ned's in Richmond, VA when Man vs. Food was recording. John Berman will be eating a meal today for the Man vs. Food episode of Nightline.
Kristel Poole claims that Man vs. Food will record at Buz & Ned's Real Barbecue in Richmond after appearing at Black Sheep today.
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