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At a press conference promoting the upcoming season of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston joked that his character, Walter White, ate 38.5 hot dogs in the 1978 Nathan's finals.
An English-language a facebook fan page about Japanese competitive eating TV programs has been set up at https://www.facebook.com/ooguijapan
In tonight's episode of Honey Boo Boo (9 PM ET/PT on TLC), "Pumpkin" the sister of the show's protagonist, will attempt to eat the Pigzilla barbecue sandwich challenge at Papa Buck's BBQ in Metter, GA. Dale Boone is the only person to previously finish the challenge. update July 25 Grantland.com has a column about the episode
Zach Galifianakis will guest-star in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons as an aspiring competitive eater befriended by Lisa.
MyFoxChicago.com held a promo contest to promote Bartolini's meatball eating contest on Sunday.
The Hollywood Reporter announces that the broadcast of the 2013 Nathan's finals on ESPN2 attracted 1.15 million viewers and a 0.7 rating, a decline from the 0.8 rating the tape-delayed broadcast received in 2012 (# of 2012 viewers not specified). The last live coverage on ESPN in 2011 attracted 1.949 million viewers.
ESPN Sportsnation has several poll questions about competitive eating.
ESPN Sportsnation will host an online chat session with Joey Chestnut today at 2:30 ET / 11:30a PT.
Last year's cupcake eating contest held at Coney Island will be televised on the July 1 episode of DC Cupcakes on TLC at 7pm ET/PT. Stephanie Torres ate 71 cupcakes to win the contest.
ESPN2 to show Sportscenter instead of Nathan’s womens finals
The 2013 Nathan’s TV schedule is now out (scroll down to “Great Events”). ESPN2 will start live coverage of the men’s finals at noon EDT while ESPN televises Wimbledon. The broadcast will be rerun on ESPN at 1 pm EDT and 7 pm EDT and on ESPN2 at 5 pm EDT.
The women’s finals will be webcast on ESPN3.com starting at 11:30. ESPN2 will be showing Sportscenter at that time, so the women’s finals could be televised live if the Sportscenter starting at 7 am EDT on that channel was truncated from five hours to 4:30.
High Noon Entertainment posted a casting notice for Southern California competitive eaters who would like to appear on TruTV's Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (via examiner.com)
The television schedule for this year's Wimbledon tournament lists that ESPN will televise the women's semifinals from 9am - 1pm eastern on July 4, which will conflict with live coverage of the Nathan's finals on that channel. Last year's Nathan's finals were webcast live on ESPN3.com and tape-delayed on ESPN. update June 14 An IFOCE.com page about the finals (which lists the defending women's champion as Sonya Morgan) says they will be televised live on ESPN2.
An unnamed competitive eater will host the new series "All You Can Eat", which will debut on the National Geographic network in Canada on August 29.
Jamie McDonald appeared on yesterday's episode of Better Connecticut (video) to promote Saturday's opening of his new restaurant, Bear's Smokehosue BBQ. There will be a $1,000 bonus if someone eats more than Jamie in the macaroni & cheese eating contest.
Chuck from The Bronx's audition for America's Got Talent was televised on NBC last night (video). He did three food related challenges, one requiring an ice filled bathtub.
Molly Schuyler competed against Vernon J in a cannoli eating contest on today's Omaha Morning Blend (video).
History.com has a clip from the June 26 episode of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy of a burger eating contest recorded at the Heart Attack Grill won by Miki Sudo. Larry says Miki could be the next Sonya Thomas and also mentions Joey Chestnut's Krystal burger record. (via Pilgrim Studios)
Tonight's rerun of the Cleveland Show> on Fox at 7 pm ET/PT will be "The Wide World of the Cleveland Show" (trailer) in which Junior will compete in an eating contest in Japan.
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is #2 on Awful Announcing's ranking of ESPN alternate programming. (The World Series of Poker is #1).
Bob Shoudt reports that Rick "The Manager" will appear on tomorrow's episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.
A contest promoting Sunday's gyro eating championship at the Houston Greek Festival was held on Great Day Houston yesterday. The festival facebook has a printable coupon offering free admission (normally $3).
Yasir Salem will appear on this weekend's episode (ABC 7 Sunday 1:00 pm) of "NY RR on the Run at the Brooklyn Half [Marathon]" which will end near Nathan's Coney Island location. (Flashback: According to Mortimer Matz, Nathan's had the opportunity to be the main sponsor of the New York City Marathon in the 1976)
In a politico.com report, Anthony Bourdain claims Man v. Food inspires southwest Asians to commit acts of terrorism. For his example, he cites an "impoverished goat herder somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistani border" who happens to possess a television with a cable or satellite connection despite his poverty.
ABC15 has a news video segment about Jeff "The Beastman" Butler. The accompanying article claims that the Nathan's telecast on ESPN will be tape-delayed again this year at 3 pm Eastern (but shown live on ESPN3.com).
The blog for Dr. Jon of the Heart Attack Grill announces that Miki Sudo's appearance on Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy where she ate the Octuple Bypass Burger in 3:22 will be televised on the History Channel in May. If you can't wait until next month, Miki has posted a training video where she eats 24 hot dogs in 4:15.
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