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The episode of Cheap Seats where the Sklar brothers commentate on ESPN's 2005 telecast of the US Open of Competitive Eating can be viewed on youtube.
An episode of First Look where Ali Fedotowsky and others attempt several restaurants' eating challenges will be televised on NBC tonight after Saturday Night Live. update Feb 17 Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown appeared on the episode and attempted the Po Boy sandwich challenge at Phil's Last Stand (facebook gallery | instagram | promo video)
The LA Times reports that Manuel Rojas, owner of El Tepeyac Cafe, passed away. The restaurant's five pound "Manuel's Special" burrito was featured in the Los Angeles episode of Man vs. Food.
Contact Music reports that Mark Wahlberg was "left speechless" by an unnamed competitive eater eating 12 burgers in 10 minutes during the recording of the pilot episode for his eating challenge show. The episode was taped on January 15 and will be televised on the History Channel.
The episode of ESPN's Cheap Seats where the Sklar brothers commentate on the telecast of the 2004 Nathan's finals can be viewed on youtube.
The gambling website Sportsbook.ag is accepting bets on an eating contest to be held today in New Orleans between Grantland.com (ESPN) personalities Joe House and "Cousin" Sal Iacono. (video preview | podcast preview | "House Eats" video #2).
The NBC program First Look is looking for two people to attempt the Bacon Bomb challenge at Paddy Long's in Chicago on February 4 for an upcoming episode.
Defending champion Lizzy McDaniel and 2011 women's division winner Theza Friedman competed in a promo contest for the Princeton Oyster Bowl on CBS Philly earlier this week (gallery). The contest will award a Caribbean trip to the overall winner on Sunday. Dave "US Male" Goldstein is listed as a 3.5- 1 underdog for the contest.
Blondie's Bar and Grill in Vacaville, CA is looking for people to attempt its 5 pound eating challenge on tomorrow's episode of Good Day Sacramento.
Jamie McDonald competed in an in-studio burger eating contest in today's episode of Better Connecticut.
A casting call has been placed for "Man v. Food: New Orleans". The program will record tomorrow and Wednesday. update Jan 23 The program was actually "Super Bowl Tailgate Takeover" hosted by Adam Richam that will be televised Jan 30 on the Travel Channel.
The January 27 episode of Fox's "The Cleveland Show", titled "The Wide World of Cleveland Show" will have a competitive eating segment taking place in Japan.
NJ.com has an article about Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and his lack of involvement in Wing Bowl 21. Simmons says he has yet to be indicted on his drug trafficking charge and still plans to continue with his "America's Biggest Eater" television project.
Big Food will debut Wednesday at 10 pm ET/PT on CMT. In the inaugural episode, brothers John and Don McLemore will attempt to create a cake the size of a tank at Fort Benning, GA.
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 »
Acta Diurna has an article (in French) about Man vs. Food calling it "Pornographie alimentaire".
Eric Andre's LIVE New Year's Eve Spooktacular, to be televised on Adult Swim (The Cartoon Network) at 11:30 pm eastern tomorrow, will have some type of competitive eating (no other details were disclosed).
In Grantland.com's list of 2013 predictions, "Cousin" Sal Iacono claims that Joey Chestnut will become a vegetarian after being held hostage by PETA.
The official youtube page for the Ricki Lake Show has posted a video of Sonya Thomas' appearance where she attempted to break a hard-boiled egg eating record.
Miller Lite is currently running a commercial titled "Corner Men" where a diner attempting a spicy chicken wing challenge drinks Miller Lite to soothe his throat (spicy challenges generally do not allow liquids during attempts). (commercial without age restriction) update Jan 7 Emilio Rivera of Sons of Anarchy plays the chef. Thebackground music is Sleepy Silver Door by Dead Meadow.
BBC America has a blog entry about an upcoming program, British Man vs. Food. The host will be Arthur Richerman and the inaugural challenge will be Harridge's "Born to Be Mild" challenge, where diners will take afternoon tea at an improper hour.
Mike "Awesome Fat" Litman, finisher of a 10.5 pound prime rib at Ward's House of Prime on the Travel Channel's "Big Beef Paradise, will attempt become the first person to finish Mulligan's 7.5 pound monster burger challenge on tomorrow's episode of Fox6's Real Milwaukee".
A hot dog (ch)eating contest overseen by Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas is one of ten candidates for the funniest momemt of 2012 on NBC's Today.
Shigeo Okamoto has posted videos from Food Battle Club and other Japanese competitive eating programs. In the Food Battle Club posted, Nobuyuki Shirota defeated Takeru Kobayashi.
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