Bite Me TV's New Show 'Quick Bite!' at the 2011 Tasty Awards

We have a new series!  It's called Quick Bite! and our first episode covers the 2011 Tasty Awards.

The Tasty Awards recognize the best in food, drink and fashion programming on television and the web.  Our man Druu was a judge for the awards this year, and on the night of the gala event he and Joel grabbed their cameras to record the festivities.  A number of celebs were in attendance, including Zane Lamprey, Aida Mollenkamp, Nathan Lyon, Alie and Georgia, Bobby Bognar, Leslie Sbrocco, Brian Boitano, Candice Kumai, Jeanie Mai, Darryl Robinson and Jolene Sugarbaker.  Check out the red carpet, the ceremony and the after-party, all in under 2 minutes.  Yup, that's a Quick Bite!

For the full list of nominees and winners, check out http://www.tastyawards.com/.
Enjoy!

Food Jammers - The Cooking Show for Guys Who Are Buzzed

Do you remember ever hanging out with your buds, either stoned or kinda drunk, and getting into a conversation that went sorta like:

"Dude, wouldn't it be cool if we built a.....so we could...?"

"Man, we could totally do that.  It would be awesome!"

"Yeah, man.  I can sooo see it now.  C'mon, bro.  Let's do it today.  Let's do it right now.  We could have this bad boy working in no time."

"Alright, man.  Yeah, let's do it.  Let me just take one more hit..."

You remember that, right?  Of course you do!  Well, somebody decided to take that basic idea and make a TV show out of it.  It's called Food Jammers.  Three Canadian dudes who have some building skills and a "WTF?  Let's do it!" attitude build these wild contraptions in each episode to cook up some kind of food or make some cool drinks.  While these guys are more beer drinkers than stoners (this is television after all), Food Jammers really is the ultimate stoner cooking show.  The series has been airing in Canada for three seasons, and this year's season 3 started airing in the U.S. on the Food Network's new Cooking Channel.

Here's a video clip from a couple of years ago where the three hosts modify their freezer so they can keep an eye on their chilling beers.  This might have even been shot before they had a proper TV show.



I watched the last episode of season 3 a couple of weeks ago, and the guys built a hot tub during Canada's winter so that they could relax outside and cook Japanese Shabu-Shabu and drink sake while being in the jacuzzi. It was pretty freaking awesome.

So check out Food Jammers on the Cooking Channel.  Here's a link to their show page on the Cooking Channel site.  The show might be a sausage farm without the babe action of our BITE ME! the MAN Cooking Show, and some of their contraptions may not be very practical, but the show is a lot of fun to watch while chilling in front of the tube with a beer in your hand.

Nominations for the 2011 Tasty Awards are Open

Nominations for the 2nd annual Tasty Awards have opened up.  The Tasty Awards recognizes the best in food, drink and fashion programming, and anyone can nominate their favorite shows.  There are television categories as well as web categories, so if there's a podcast, web TV show, broadcast TV show, cable TV show or film out there that you think deserves recognition, click here to see the various categories and make your nomination.

I'm a judge for this year's Tasty Awards, so we are NOT asking anyone to nomination Bite Me TV's 'BITE ME! the MAN Cooking Show' or 'Drink 'n Play'.  We'll make sure our shows are thrown into the hat for next year's awards.

Cheers!
Druu

Bite Me TV's Druu is a Judge for the 2011 Tasty Awards

The Tasty Awards is an annual awards show that takes place at the beginning of each year to recognize the finest in food, drink and fashion programming on TV, in film and on the web.  The list of judges for the 2011 Tasty Awards was just announced yesterday, so we can let out the secret that Bite Me TV's Druu was asked to be one of the judges in the food and drink categories.  SHWEET!!!

Druu will join some of the top food bloggers, food and drink show hosts (including some past Tasty Award nominees), magazine publishers and media companies (including Scripps Networks which runs a little cable channel nobody's ever heard of called the Food Network) in reviewing this year's award nominees and voting for the best of the best.

We don't have schedule info yet on the 2011 awards show, but this year's Tasty Awards were held in January up in San Francisco.  As the show gets closer and we gather more info, we'll spread the word.

Three Sheets Begins Airing Wednesday Nights on the Travel Channel

We shared the good news a few days ago that the Travel Channel was picking up Three Sheets, one of our favorite drinking series'. We now know have word that all 52 episodes of Three Sheets' four seasons will air Wednesday nights at 11pm and 11:30pm, beginning next Wednesday, June 30. And...if the show's ratings are good enough, the Travel Channel will throw down some cash to produce a fifth season.

So grab a cocktail or a cold one on Wednesday nights and flip on the Travel Channel to catch episodes of Three Sheets. If you're on the West Coast, you may even get to see the show at 8pm and 8:30pm depending on who your cable or satellite TV provider is. Check your local listings.

Three Sheets is Coming Back with More Libations

If you're a fan of the cable TV series Three Sheets, then you know that Zane Lamprey's show has endured quite a roller coaster ride since its humble beginnings.  If you've never heard of Three Sheets, then let me fill you in. 

Three Sheets is a drinking travel show hosted by comedian and everyone's drinking buddy Zane Lamprey.  Mix drinking customs and related history from around the world with pub crawling and cavorting, and you've got the idea.  In other words it's awesome!  History because it's good for you, and drinking because it feels so good...all wrapped up in one package ready for you to enjoy.  The show first aired on the early HD network MOJO.  When MOJO went belly up at the end of 2008, Three Sheets had aired 3 seasons and the 4th was in production.  Fine Living Network picked up the series in 2009 and aired the new 4th season as well as the earlier episodes.  Then, Scripps Networks, the owner of Fine Living as well as the Food Network, decided to rebrand Fine Living into the Cooking Channel starting in June 2010 and Three Sheets was dropped like a rock.  It's not a cooking show, after all.

So, here we are.  Fine Living is now the Cooking Channel and Three Sheets is off the air.  But it's coming back soon!  SWEET!!!  Scripps Networks recently bought the Travel Channel (which must have pissed Anthony Bourdain off to no end) and thank goodness somebody over there at the Travel Channel had the good sense to add Three Sheets to their line-up.  No word yet on when season 5 will go into production, but we'll spread the word once we get it.

In the meantime, Zane Lamprey is on the road all over the U.S. doing his Drinking Made Easy Comedy Tour and is shooting a Drinking Made Easy TV show for HDNet.  The comedy tour runs through July.  For dates and locations, head here.  The show is supposed to air on HDNet beginning in September.