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Thanks for sharing the great news. I have been "talking" to Chef Irvine online and on the phone off and on for a couple of months now and I know he is VERY excited about this and has other PBS and BBC America shows coming up. He is also being courted as a possible replacement to Chef Ramsay on Hell's Kitchen. I think he is "too nice" for that but does have the attitude to do the job "right" without being too brash like Chef Ramsay.
Chef Symon is very good but not quite the same as Chef Irvine. I am in hopes the show will go back to the hour long format they were working on when Chef Irvine was put on "hiatus." As for Chef Symon, he did film 10 battles for the "current season" of Iron Chef America and 10 "challenges" of Dinner:Impossible as well. His lead Sous is Jon Sawyer, a fellow NECI grad, I know Jon has his own restaurant in Cleveland now competing with the "boss" on the shows. Be interesting to see Jon go up against Chef Symon in an Iron Chef America battle...
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