EXCLUSIVE: CBS may have found the cooking competition series that it's been looking for – from Padma Lakshmi and former NBCU content chief Susan Rovner. The network has struck a development deal with the pair for a new food format that marks the first project to be baked up by Rovner's new production…

Saturday Night Live has continued this season’s tradition of high-profile cameos in every episode. Tonight’s surprise guests included Christopher Walken in the Cold Open and Padma Lakshmi in a skit set at a cooking competition show in the vein of Top Chef, which Lakshmi hoisted for 19 seasons. The SN…

The 2023 Global Citizen Festival rolled out Saturday in Central Park in New York, the latest edition of annual music festival that this year was headlined by Lauryn Hill and a Fugees reunion and a closing set by Red Hot Chili Peppers. The lineup of performers also included a salute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop…

EXCLUSIVE: Padma Lakshmi has signed with CAA for representation. Lakshmi is nominated for three Emmy Awards this year, including Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program and Outstanding Reality Competition Program for Top Chef, and Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special for Taste…

It wasn’t a quest to find new delicacies or the chance to go on road trips that inspired Padma Lakshmi to launch Taste the Nation on Hulu. Rather, it was the 2016 election and all the talk about border politics that prompted the executive producer and former co-star of Top Chef to want to launch a show…

Padma Lakshmi is having an “otherworldly and amazing” morning, after pulling her latest set of three Emmy nominations for the culinary competition show Top Chef, which she’s long hosted and exec produced, and her newer Hulu series Taste the Nation, examining cuisine from coast to coast. The nod for…

Bravo has found its new host for Top Chef. Season 10 winner Kristen Kish will take the reins for the hit culinary competition show’s 21st season following the exit of longtime host Padma Lakshmi. Kish will join head judge Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons for the upcoming season of the Emmy, James…

Bravo will need to cook up a new host of Top Chef now that Padma Lakshmi has revealed she is leaving. Lakshmi, who also exec produces the show, said that she is leaving the cooking show after its 20th season, which is known as Top Chef: World All-Stars. The show, which has its season finale on June…

Culinary super tastemaker Padma Lakshmi is once again in the running for Emmys, both for Bravo's Top Chef and her Hulu series Taste the Nation. Over her years of hosting and executive producing Top Chef, she has earned 14 Emmy nominations herself, but victory has remained, tantalizingly, just beyond her…

Bravo’s Top Chef is heading to London for Season 20 set for 2023—the first time the flagship series shoots an entire season abroad. Production begins across the pond this month. The 20th World All-Stars season will see the return of host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons, as…

VH1 stalwart RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bravo veteran Top Chef tied for Best Competition Series and led the field with three wins apiece Sunday night at the fourth annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards. Bravo topped all networks with five trophies, including one for Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi as Best Show Host for Hulu’s Tast…

America was built by immigrants, and American Cuisine is a great example of how these communities came together to build something new. With Taste the Nation on Hulu, Padma Lakshmi takes the audience on a culinary journey across America with a focus on the diverse food culture of different immigrant groups. She seeks…