Anyone watch this new show on Bravo last night?
It's a bit of a strange concept. Here's the description from the show's website:
Meet Jean Christophe Novelli, world renowned Michelin and 5AA Rosette award-winning chef with restaurants in London, France and South Africa, and voted "World's Sexiest Chef" by The New York Times. Bravo's Chef Academy chronicles Novelli's move to Los Angeles as he opens a test program for a top-notch culinary institute and trains and transforms those who aspire to cook like professionals.
It's part instruction and part competition. Novelli provides cooking instruction and advice, but at the same time the "students" can get kicked out of the "Academy" if they fail three challenges. The contestants are a bit of an odd mix of home cooks, semi-pros, and professionals (including a cook from a submarine which I think is really cool).
As with most Bravo shows, the actual production of the show is enjoyable enough but I'm not sure if the concept itself makes a whole lot of sense. In other words, I'm not sure this will end with a clear winner, just a handful of people "graduating" who didn't fail three times. I don't find any of the contestants too annoying, and many actually look like they know what they're doing (this is no Hell's Kitchen).
I'll probably watch a couple more episodes, but this hasn't earned Season Pass status yet.