UPDATE: September 05, 2017 at 1:36 p.m.
Since his first cryptic post nearly a year ago, Alton Brown has been vague with announcements regarding the return of Good Eats, his beloved show that went off the air in 2012. This weekend, while speaking at pop culture convention called Dragon Con, Brown finally revealed some concrete details as to what the show will look like.
According to Brown, the show – officially titled Return of The Eats – will be a half-hour format. It will air on Food Network, of course, but there will be bonus footage shot just for web too.
"We'll also be shooting additional scenes that will be injected into each show for streaming," Brown told the crowd. "So if you watch it online, you will see a better show."
Brown was obviously very excited to share the news, telling fans, "We're bringing it back, we're restarting it, we're getting the band back together!"
The only downside, Brown joked, is that the return of his show means Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives has to cut their scheduled programming from 8 hours a day to 7 and a half... poor Guy.
No official date has been announced yet, but the show is expected to premiere sometime in 2018. Watch the video below, taken at Dragon Con, to hear Brown's comments on the new show.
h/t Cinema Blend
UPDATE: July 12, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.
Food Network's favorite food scientist and television show host Alton Brown looks like he's finally ready to dust off those old sock puppets and teach us a little more about our favorite foods with the return of Good Eats.
Posted with the ominous caption "It's time..." some of his most beloved props and and tools can be seen in a dark basement, and covered in cobwebs; most notably, the flame-covered mixing bowl and the rotisserie chicken wearing a bowler hat painting.
Still no word on exactly when we can expect the Good Eats to return to the internet, but this sneak peek has us hoping it'll be back this fall.
UPDATE: November 2, 2016 at 12:10 p.m.
If, like us, you were a devout follower of the popular Food Network show Good Eats, then you're going to absolutely flip.
In a new video posted on Facebook, Alton Brown addressed the "prophetic video" he posted on Instagram a couple weeks ago (see below) and announced that "yes, the internet project that I will be releasing next year is essentially a sequel follow-up to a program called Good Eats that I made for about 14 years on Food Network."
Perhaps the most important note Brown makes is that he wants freedom. Instead of bending to the vision and preferences of a television network, he'd rather take the reins himself—and he'd especially like to use more fans' suggestions for topics to cover on the new show.
We can't wait to see what Brown comes up next now that he'll have total and complete control over his science-driven, totally nerdy, and completely exciting approach to cooking. Good Eats is back, baby!
ORIGINAL POST: October 19, 2016 at 2:44 p.m.
If there's one thing the internet loves to do, it's speculate. So whenever a new rumor hits the web, you can bet every theory—both right and (usually) wrong—is put out there for all to ponder. At this point, we've learned to take any unconfirmed factoids with a grain of salt, but this new one might actually have some merit. One of your favorite cooking shows might be coming back, and though it is still unconfirmed, the reasoning behind the theory is pretty plausible.
Food Network star Alton Brown's popular show Good Eats went off the air back in 2012, and since then, he's been focusing on his cooking competition show, Cutthroat Kitchen. But if this new video is anything to go by, all of that could be changing very soon.
Brown posted a video to his Instagram account on Tuesday, announcing his break from Cutthroat Kitchen, and the rumor mill is already churning that this could indicate a revival of Good Eats, which aired for over a decade.
So why is Brown taking a breather from Cutthroat? "To concentrate my efforts on a new internet, uh, venture I have ... I call it ... a cooking show."
Given that his video was filmed from inside a microwave—a similar camera angle used on Good Eats—and he was playing it all kinds of coy (he ended the video with "Why am I telling you from inside an appliance? No reason.") it seems like he's actually going to be bringing the show back.
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