Think of the NBA bubble, but with kitchens instead of courts.
Last September, Season 18 of Bravo s “Top Chef” (premiering Thursday, 8 EDT/PDT) sharpened its knives and began filming during the pandemic, keeping its original location of Portland, Oregon, and reimagining some of the kitchen standards that make the Emmy-winning competition show sizzle.
This season’s “cheftestants,” as Bravo calls them, include 15 executive chefs and restaurant owners. All involved quarantined ahead of production, including the crew, host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons.
Lakshmi s preproduction bubble in Portland included her 11-year-old daughter, Krishna. During Colicchio s own lockdown, “I had my dog with me, so I went outside to walk her. And that was it,” says the judge, who stayed solo in an Airbnb. Both say they were tested every other day during the two-month taping.
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This is the latest award Murphy has picked up. Recently, Murphy picked up the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and the BFCA Critics Choice Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Non-televised ceremonies for the 2021 NAACP Image Awards will take place from March 22 through March 26. The televised portion will kickoff on March 27.
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Carl Reiner Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Grammy and Emmy-winning actor, screenwriter, novelist and director, Carl Reiner.
Personal
Death date: June 29, 2020
Birth place: The Bronx, New York
Birth name: Carl Reiner
Children: Lucas, Annie and Rob
Education: Attended Georgetown University, 1943
Military service: US Army, 1942-1946
Other Facts
Nominated for 18 Primetime Emmy Awards with 11 wins, including seven awards for his work as writer and creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” He was also inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Nominated for eight Grammy awards with one win.
Growing up during the Great Depression, Reiner developed an interest in writing and performing after taking a government-funded drama class sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). When Reiner received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2000, he said the WPA was instrumental in steering him towards a comedy career and he credited President Franklin D. R