EXCLUSIVE: CBS might have discovered the cooking competitors sequence that it’s been on the lookout for – from Padma Lakshmi and former NBCU content material chief Susan Rovner.
The community has struck a growth cope with the pair for a brand new meals format that marks the primary challenge to be baked up by Rovner’s new manufacturing firm Aha Studios.
There are few particulars in regards to the format itself, however the Paramount-owned community has been on the lookout for its personal sequence to rival the likes of Prime Chef and MasterChef.
Amy Reisenbach, President of CBS Leisure, revealed to Deadline in June that she wished her community to get into the meals area. “We’ve undoubtedly talked about looking for our model of a cooking present. I’m personally an enormous fan of them,” she mentioned.
The brand new sequence will come from Lakshmi’s Scrumptious Leisure and Rovner’s Aha Studios with each exec producing. Lakshmi can even host the sequence.
Lakshmi and Rovner labored collectively when the previous was the host and exec producer of Bravo’s Prime Chef and Rovner was Chairman of Leisure Content material throughout NBCUniversal’s Tv and Streaming division.
Lakshmi is the creator of Hulu sequence Style The Nation, which has run for 2 seasons, and is finest referred to as host and exec producer of Prime Chef, which she labored on for 19 seasons and left final yr. Lakshmi drew 5 Emmy nominations for Excellent Host for A Actuality-Competitors Program for her position on Prime Chef, which was nominated for 47 Emmys throughout her tenure. She can also be the creator of cook dinner books Straightforward Unique and Tangy, Tart, Sizzling & Candy in addition to children books Tomatoes for Neela and memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate.
Rovner just lately launched Aha Studios, the place she is CEO, a manufacturing firm that works throughout scripted, unscripted and documentary content material. She was Chairman, Leisure Content material, NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming from 2020 to 2023, working throughout NBC, cable networks together with Bravo, USA Community and E! and Peacock, the place she was liable for greenlighting sequence akin to Evening Court docket, Ted, Traitors and Poker Face. Earlier than that, she was President of Warner Bros. Tv.
Lakshmi is repped by CAA, Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman and The Initiative Group. Rovner is repped by CAA and Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, McGinnis, Ryan LLP.
