Alton Brown says that “cooking TV shows have gone the way of the dinosaur” in an interview with WOKTV.
The former Food Network star was interviewed by Chase Bunker to promote his new live tour, “An Evening of Alton Brown.” Brown describes his new tour as “the unplugged version of me,” according to WOKTV.
According to Alton Brown Live, the show will provide “equal parts humor, science, food and heart.”
Cooking Shows Have ‘Not Much Future,’ Alton Brown Claims
Brown is well known for his Peabody-award winning show “Good Eats”, which he created and hosted, as well as his appearances on Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Food Network Star.
Brown recently launched his YouTube channel “Alton Brown Cooks Food.” The premiere Thanksgiving-themed episode, “The Big Bird,” reached 1.5 million views in its first 24 hours online.
In the WOKTV interview, Brown says he welcomes platforms like YouTube for their “complete creative freedom.”
“When you work for large networks, there’s a lot of people telling you what you can do, what you can’t do,” he went on.
“To be honest, I think cooking TV shows have gone the way of the dinosaur,” Brown says.
“There’s still a few big competition shows, but I don’t really think that the form has got much future on television. The golden age has certainly passed.
Brown Cooks Up Twists for New Tour
GettyAlthough he’s kept quiet on the details of his new tour, Brown’s website promises “he’s stirring up some twists on his greatest hits.”
“An Evening of Alton Brown” will also be “spicing things up with new demonstrations, music, and slightly scaled-down mayhem.”
In the interview with WOKTV, Brown said, “This show that I’m doing now… besides some favorite theaters, I also wanted to be able to play much smaller theaters and have a more intimate show with smaller crowds, and that’s what ‘An Evening of Alton Brown’ is really about.”
He continued, “There’s a lot more talking, there’s a fair amount of audience interaction and whatnot, and there are a couple of very large, strange culinary demonstrations.
“This is kind of like the unplugged version of me.”
“An Evening of Alton Brown” is set to be a more personal experience than his previous shows, which have featured extravagant performances like the “Barnabus Brown’s Weiner Wonder,” which Brown explains is “the 27-foot-long steam-powered hot dog machine that I brought the last time I was there.”
“The Wiener Wonder doesn’t exist anymore. It barely survived the 65 dates that we played on the last tour,” Brown revealed.
