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Tracy P.  is our winner of The Next Iron Chef Prize Package Giveaway — Congratulations!

The Next Iron Chef :

Sunday nights 9:00 P.M./8:00 P.M. Central

THe Finale is November 22, 2009

The ten contestants include: Nate Appleman (Chef/Butcher, New York, NY), Dominique Crenn (Chef de Cuisine, Luce at InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA), Brad Farmerie (Executive Chef, Double Crown, Madam Geneva, PUBLIC and The Monday Room, New York, NY), Amanda Freitag (Executive Chef, The Harrison, New York, NY), Jose Garces (Executive Chef & Owner, Amada, Tinto, Distrito, Chifa, Philadelphia, PA), Eric Greenspan (Executive Chef & Owner, The Foundry on Melrose, Los Angeles, CA), Jehangir Mehta (Executive Chef & Owner, Graffiti, New York, NY), Seamus Mullen (Executive Chef & Partner, Boqueria Flatiron and Boqueria Soho, New York, NY), Holly Smith(Chef & Owner, Cafe Juanita and Poco Carretto Gelato, Kirkland, WA) and Roberto Treviño (Executive Chef & Owner, Budatai, San Juan, PR).

Screenhead has teamed up with the Food Network and Namco Bandai Games just in time for the holidays to unveil Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked for Wii. This new game is designed to teach players real, practical cooking skills using their Wii Remote and Nunchuk. From introductory lessons to more advanced challenges, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked might make you a star chef.

With more than 30 recipes developed by the expert chefs of the Food Network Kitchens, the game delivers a truly authentic food experience from prep to plate. Realistic and fun challenges let Food Networkviewers; enthusiastic chefs and even kitchen-cowards perfect their culinary techniques mess-free with the motion-based Wii Remote and Nunchuk simulating an array of kitchen tools and utensils. From cracking an egg, to oiling a pan, to seasoning the perfect steak, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is designed to take the cooking experience from practice to practical, teaching skills that can ultimately be applied in the real kitchen, for a real-life delicious meal.

There are never too many cooks in the kitchen with this game. Friends and family can cook all recipes side-by-side in cooperative Hot Potato mode for up to four players, or have a competitive split-screen cook-off with two players. This game is the perfect gift for all the foodies or aspiring chefs on your holiday list.

Post your name now for your chance to win a one of two copies of Food Network: Cook or Be Cookedcourtesy of Food Network and Namco Bandai Games.  Screenhead will pick the two winners Friday, November 20, 2009.

And just when you think a  movie about the creation of Facebook is strange. News is just in that Julian Jarrold, director of Becoming Jane and the remake of Brideshead Revisited, is in talks to direct a film charting the rise of Paul Potts. And who is Paul Potts? No, it’s not about the leader of Cambodia’s communist movement (now THAT would be an interesting film). Paul was the rather shy young man who wowed the audience of Britain’s Got Talent with this video of him singing an operatic aria. The clip has raked in millions of hits since it hit Youtube in 2007. Since then Paul has gone on to release two albums and has sold them in the millions.

But do we really need to see the story of this in movie form? The majority of winners of these .. Got Talent or.. Idol TV shows seem to end up as one-hit wonders, quickly releasing a record to cash in on the immediate success, and then swifly fading away into cabaret hell. And besides Potts’s rise to fame and fortune, is there really enough dramatic material to warrant 90 minutes? And even if there was, it seems almost futile to portray such backstories when our TV’s and PCs are already inundated with video clips and gap-filling retrospective shows, bringing us through the tabloid headlines covering their lives (and it’s not like this story will be new to a US audience, as in 2008 America’s Got Talent found their own Potts in Neal Boyd). Or will we be surprised by a film of Beckettian wit, in which a man stands in a  mobile-phone store for hours waiting for something to happen? It seems unlikely that a film of Potts would be anything more than a dull biopic, detailing the major facts of his life,  offering little more than a sadly excessive 15 minutes of fame, and deservedly ending up as a Saturday afternoon TV movie.

The Next Iron Chef :

Sunday nights 9:00 P.M./8:00 P.M. Central

Premieres October 4, 2009 with the Finale November 22, 2009

The ten contestants include: Nate Appleman (Chef/Butcher, New York, NY), Dominique Crenn (Chef de Cuisine, Luce at InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA), Brad Farmerie (Executive Chef, Double Crown, Madam Geneva, PUBLIC and The Monday Room, New York, NY), Amanda Freitag (Executive Chef, The Harrison, New York, NY), Jose Garces (Executive Chef & Owner, Amada, Tinto, Distrito, Chifa, Philadelphia, PA), Eric Greenspan (Executive Chef & Owner, The Foundry on Melrose, Los Angeles, CA), Jehangir Mehta (Executive Chef & Owner, Graffiti, New York, NY), Seamus Mullen (Executive Chef & Partner, Boqueria Flatiron and Boqueria Soho, New York, NY), Holly Smith (Chef & Owner, Cafe Juanita and Poco Carretto Gelato, Kirkland, WA) and Roberto Treviño (Executive Chef & Owner, Budatai, San Juan, PR).

Screenhead has joined The Next Iron Chef in a giveaway. We asked that you post your name and answer this question: Who is your favorite Iron Chef contender over the years? We will pick the winner Sunday, November 1, 2009.

The Prize Package (US only winner) includes:

NIC T-shirt

Postcard

Poster

Alton Brown’s new cookbook.

Check out who Miley Cyrus picks as her favorite Jonas Brother and her reaction to Kanye West and how she would have handled it if she had been in Taylor Swift’s position.

Jennifer Aniston sings “I’ve Got a Crush on You” at around the 1:00 mark.

Kathy Pease (108) is the winner — congratulations!!! 

This is what she won: Criss Angel: The Most Dangerous Escapes DVD, Criss Angel Mindfreak: The Complete Season 4 DVD and an A&E t-shirt.

In his most daring season of “Criss Angel Mindfreak” to date, Criss Angel ups the ante by attempting five of the most dangerous demonstrations in magic. Each week he will attempt to defy the natural laws of science in new and innovative ways and will be challenged with a way to live… or a way to die. Each one-hour episode will feature a variety of different illusions and culminate in one grand, never-before-seen demonstration that will blow viewers minds.

The season premiere will be “White Death,” on Wednesday, August 12 at 10 PM ET/PT and the five episodes include: “White Death” – Criss takes the “Buried Alive” escape to an unprecedented level as he is shackled and placed in a transparent coffin that is buried in ice and snow. Will he escape or succumb to hypothermia, suffocation or the risk of the ground collapsing on top of him? “Death Field” – Criss is challenged to safely traverse a field of live explosives in less than five minutes where the risk for serious injury, if not death, is extremely high. “Terminal Velocity” – Criss attempts to teleport himself twice, first he drops an object from more than 250 feet above the Las Vegas strip and reach the bottom in time to catch it in one continuous camera shot. And in front of hundreds of spectators he attempts to vanish in mid-air and reappear in an impossible location. “Death Crash” – In his most death-defying illusion to date, Criss will hide in one of five coffins and the spectators, unaware of which coffin he has chosen, will send a merciless driver to smash the coffins into splinters. “Mass Levitation” – Criss takes levitation to new heights by levitating an entire Las Vegas crowd whose safety he is responsible for. This demonstration requires intense concentration, should he fail some will fall and face certain injury.

Donna K. (314) is the winner of this fantastic HGTV Design Star Prize Package!!

Screenhead has joined HGTV’s Design Star — Hollywood never looked so good — for an unbelievable giveaway.

This is what Donna K. Won – all HGTV-themed:

Flashlight

12 pack cooler

Lg and XL T-shirt

multi-purpose tool

sunshade

umbrella

red and blue travel mug

book

night light

visor

desk drawer cube

red/yellow sling bag

Michael Capp (5), Beth Shepherd (56), David (58) and Gary Costanzo (115) are the winners!!! Congratulations!

The winners will take a breathtaking voyage across the ocean (no passport required) on a tour of epic landscapes that takes you to new heights in Sky View, flying onto DVD July 21, 2009.  

They will soar over Europe and experience history and the countryside from an eagle’s perspective.  Utilizing cutting-edge, high-definition camera-mount technology, this remarkable series provides a unique view of Europe and its history that will take your breath away!

They will enjoy four episodes of a magical journey through Ireland, Britain, Italy and France, covering a range of exploration: From majestic castles, historic landmarks and city views to mystical sites and ruins.  From dizzying cliffs and souring mountains to green fields, gentle lakes and the ever-changing Atlantic coast.  The DVD includes episodes: Emerald Isle, French Riviera, Heart of Italy and Southern Britain.

For those of you already familiar with the Discovery Channel’s programming, what I’m about to say will be no surprise for you.  Coming up on the order of soon is the newest iteration of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a week of shows devoted almost exclusively to those misunderstood terrors of the deep blue, sharks.  For those of you not familiar with this, it’s an absolutely amazing block of shows–some are purely shark-oriented, and others are special episodes of current Discovery Channel shows like Mythbusters that deal with shark facts and other shark phenomenon.

Thus, I’m all sorts of happy to offer up for you, ahead of the newest iteration of Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection.

Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection is a monster four-disc compendium of episodes of Shark Week.  Containing three to four episodes of various Discovery Channel programs per disc, each covering any of a number of shark-related issues, the whole set is contained inside a box with a holographic cover that basically looks a lot like a shark attack.  Seriously–the shark essentially “swims in” from the left side of the box art and grows larger as it moves toward the right side of the box.

I’ll be honest with you up front–if you have even the VAGUEST interest in sharks, this is just the box set for you.  Prehistoric sharks, shark attack survivors, the shark attack rescue squads…pretty much everything you could ever want to know, or ever imagined you could know about sharks is right here.

It also serves as an excellent introductory guide to the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week.  If you want to learn, before you go in, just what this week is like, lay your hands on a copy of this fantastic box set.  We’re talking about approximately ELEVEN HOURS of footage.  That’s right.  Nearly half a day of footage comes in this tiny little box set.  Can you imagine that?  Sit around for half a day watching footage about sharks!

But it’s not just sharks, though.  It’s also some absolutely incredible visuals.  Let me put it this way:  sharks don’t live in the Arctic.  You’re probably not going to see a lot of sharks in Maine, or bombing around Boston Harbor.  So what you’ll get is an offhand look at some really fantastic beaches from all around the world.  Australian, Floridian, Hawaiian…you’ll see it in grand style and often with incredible overhead views.  Even better, you’ll get to go underwater, swimming with those sharks and the assorted other fish that live around them.

It’s downright spectacular, shot in a grand documentary style that feels so real and authentic that it can’t be easily ignored.  It’s great TV, packaged for easy use on DVD, and whether you already enjoy Shark Week or have never seen it, you’re going to fall in love with this DVD package.

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection nets a seven out of ten from the Screenhead Ten Scale for being a magnificently in-depth package about something not everyone may be interested in, despite the fact that it tries its best to capture everyone’s attention.