![]() ![]() “We were all lucky enough with our good fortune that they decided they weren’t going to move forward.” So, that triggered my option, and then the bigger job began, which is how do we make this different, so it’s not just the same show on a different platform.” “I actually acquired the international rights to ‘Iron Chef,’ so I was involved beyond just being on Scripps, at that time, and I had the option for the North American rights once-and-if Food Network decided not to reorder,” Keller explains. ![]() “Iron Chef” executive producer and director, Eytan Keller, shares how the show landed at Netflix, telling Variety he began his association with the series when it first launched on Food Network, which is when he met Brown, now one of his close friends. “Iron Chef” debuted on Food Network in 2005, after becoming a major phenomenon on Japanese television where the series originated with Fuji Television. ![]() The competition series moved to Netflix after it wasn’t renewed at Food Network, where it had aired for 13 seasons. ![]() The cast of Iron Chefs include Curtis Stone, Marcus Samuelsson, Dominique Crenn, Gabriela Camara and Ming Tsai. Mark Dacascos is also back as the chairman, who introduces the secret ingredient at the top of each episode. Timing just worked out that I was able to extricate myself from that.”īrown, who co-hosts the new “Iron Chef” with Kristen Kish, the TV chef known for winning the 10th season of “Top Chef,” is not the only familiar face who has reurned to Kitchen Stadium. It meant removing myself from one network, but that was not a hard decision. “ One day, my agent finally called me up after I had nagged him almost daily, and that was it. But I knew that the show was going to be happening, and I was sick with jealousy over the idea that I was at the wrong network at the wrong time,” Brown tells Variety. “That took a little bit of convincing on a lot of different people’s parts. In 2021, new episodes of his shows have aired - “Good Eats: The Return,” which debuted on Discovery+ in early 2021, and a special version of “Chopped” in the summer of that same year - but those were all filmed before he opted to head to Netflix for the new “Iron Chef.”īrown tells Variety that he caught wind of Netflix rebooting “Iron Chef” a few years ago, and was immediately interested in joining the series. Though his exit was never formally announced, Brown’s last deal with Food Network took him through 2020, and since, he has quietly left their airwaves. With Netflix’s “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” which premiered this week, Brown has officially departed from his long tenure at Food Network, where he was a staple for 21 years.īrown first joined Food Network in the late ’90s, and was the host and creator of “Good Eats,” as well as the host of “Iron Chef America,” “Cutthroat Kitchen” and a slew of other series at Food Network and the Cooking Channel. But now, both the beloved show and the celebrity chef have moved to Netflix for a new version of the competition series that will be co-hosted by Brown. Just like “ Iron Chef,” Alton Brown is synonymous with Food Network. ![]()
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