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Plot Summary:
The French Chef is a television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on American television. The show grew out of some special presentations that Child did based on the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which she had co-authored. The French Chef was produced from 1963 to 1973 by WGBH for National Educational Television. Reruns continued on PBS until 1989, and currently air on Cooking Channel as of 2010.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro
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Restaurant Stakeout (2012)
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Restaurant Stakeout is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on March 12, 2012, with the second season premiering on August 29, 2012. The series follows New York City restaurant owner William Jack "Willie" Degel, who goes behind the scenes of different restaurants across the country with hidden cameras to examine their service problems. It is one of the first "reality" shows attempted on Food Network.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 400
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious
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Martha Stewart Living (1996)
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Martha Stewart, the Bob Vila of Home Economics, gives tips on everything from cooking and flower arranging to gardening and making homemade Christmas decorations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 124
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, explanatory, realistic, semi serious, non fiction, interactive
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Iron Chef (1993)
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Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Cooking Channel in the United States and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Fuji TV will air a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef, beginning in October 26, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, offbeat, serious, culinary, realistic, stylized, game show, non fiction, campy
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Sunday Brunch (2012)
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Sunday Brunch is a British television series, broadcast live on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings. It features cookery and interviews with celebrity guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 221
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Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
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Back in Time for Dinner (2015)
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One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they will go from meagre rations to ready meals and delivery pizza in just six weeks.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Documentary
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee (2003)
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In an atmosphere as inviting as her recipes, Sandra Lee, author of the best-selling cookbook Semi-Homemade Cooking, shares her techniques for combining fresh ingredients with specially selected store-bought items. The results: mouthwatering meals and desserts, prepared in minutes, that taste like they were made from scratch. Now you can see why consumers, viewers and celebrities from Katie Couric to Nathan Lane have made Sandra Lee one of America's most sought-after culinary experts!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere:
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, serious, culinary
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What's for Dinner, Mom? (2016)
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Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds out how her mother had struggled in her life due to relocation from Japan to Taiwan, the death of her Taiwanese husband, and a battle with cancer. Tae travels to Taiwan to trace her mother's past, reminiscing about the dishes she made for the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, culinary
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Posh Nosh (2003)
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Posh Nosh is a 2003 BBC television programme parodying television chefs; the title and basic outline a reference to a cooking show pilot pitched by Neil Hamilton and Christine Hamilton. Written by Jon Canter and Arabella Weir from an idea by Weir, and directed and script edited by Chris Langham, the programme stars Arabella Weir and Richard E. Grant as chefs the Hon. Simon and Minty Marchmont, owners of a very posh restaurant called "The Quill & Tassel". There were eight nine-minute episodes, in which the chefs carry out their mission to bring "extraordinary food" to "ordinary people". Simon and Minty prepare various dishes ranging from architect's fish and chips to bread AND butter pudding, offering snooty and frequently surreal commentary along the way. For instance, they employ words in odd ways in parody of specific culinary terminology, such as "interrogate a lemon"; and their cooked vegetables are not peeled but "embarrassed", after which they might be "annoyed" instead of boiled. They also frequently insist on ultra-specific, often prohibitively expensive, ingredients—such as Greek currants that you actually have to fly to Greece to buy. At the same time, a thread of increasing domestic tension runs beneath the surface of every exchange between Simon and Minty, like Simon frequently rolling his eyes at Minty's malapropisms or Simon sarcastically commenting on Minty's cooking skills, along with some not-so-subtle hints about Simon's repressed sexual orientation. The couple illustrate aspects of the British class divide, with Minty as a middle-class social climber who married Simon for his status. She constantly brags about her high station in life, while also seeming to run "The Quill and Tassel" kitchens single-handed. A running joke in the series is Simon's crush on his tennis instructor José Luis. José Luis dies before episode 8, and Simon and Minty cook a meal to remember him in this episode. At the dinner, Simon is introduced to a new tennis coach, also played by David Tennant. Both Marchmonts are obsessed with their dog, Sam, going so far as to throw a birthday party for him. The birthday cake prepared for the party contains huge amounts of chocolate, which would kill dogs, a rather macabre joke.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, post modern
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Guy's Ranch Kitchen (2017)
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Guy Fieri invites some of his heavy-hitter chef friends over for a spontaneous cook-off, where everyone comes up with big flavors and tasty dishes that can be made in anyone's kitchen.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: culinary, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Sky's Restaurant (2019)
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Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
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Halloween Baking Championship (2015)
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The country's top bakers battle it out to create Halloween's spookiest and most-irresistible treats. From spider cupcakes, cheesecake coffins and witch finger cookies to towering confections of terror, these bakers must prove their skills to the judges to land the $25,000 prize and the title of Halloween Baking Champion!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Chopped Junior (2015)
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Just like the grown-up version Chopped Junior is hosted by Ted Allen and features a high energy, fast paced cooking competition. Instead of chefs however kids will be competing to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. After each course, a contestant gets "chopped" by our panel of esteemed culinary luminaries until the last boy or girl left standing claims victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Giada at Home (2008)
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Giada De Laurentiis lets her hair down as she demonstrates her love for cooking and entertaining California-style in this disarmingly laid-back show that allows De Laurentiis to venture far afield from her usual Italian culinary fare.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: culinary, feel good, serious, realistic, talky, funny
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The Polos (2018)
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The Bo Bolu Expedition Team is composed of six children who are brave to explore and love science. They go to the sky to the universe, dive to the bottom of the sea, and shuttle between deserts and rainforests. Bo Bolu's footsteps have crossed the entire planet and happened. A thrilling and interesting story! The six friends not only share knowledge from the real world, but also break the routine and experience some things that seem incredible in reality!.
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Genere: Family
Country: Canada
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Kiri and Lou (2019)
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"Kiri and Lou" follows the adventures of Kiri, a feisty little dinosaur with overpowering emotions and Lou, a gentle but thoughtful creature. Kiri and Lou live in a forest of cutout paper and other creatures made of clay. They are joined by motherly Pania, sensitive Sorry, who is an extremely fast little animal who cares about everyone, and Dalvanius. Kiri and Lou invite children to learn about empathy, kindness and the true meaning of friendship. Together, these clay creatures navigate a forest of feelings with laughter, adventures and songs.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Family
Country: New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: educational
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Scout & The Gumboot Kids (2015)
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A hybrid animated and live-action children's show about mindfulness and nature. The show features Scout, a curious mouse who leads the Gumboot Kids through a series of clues that take them outdoors to solve nature mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
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Sisters of the Groom (2017)
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When Sarah needs to impress a corporate bigwig in order to help her sister's catering business, she finds herself agreeing to be his son’s pretend date to a family wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Katie Morag (2013)
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Based on the much-loved series of books by Mairi Hedderwick, Katie Morag is a small red-headed girl who lives with her family on the remote and beautiful fictional Scottish island of Struay. Although she lives in a fairly unique setting, her adventures are full of experiences and feelings that all children can recognize and identify with. Her stories are full of jealousy, bravery and rivalry – surrounded by an annoying little brother, busy shopkeeper parents, a perfectly perfect best friend and a couple of grandmothers who between them know everything about everything. The stories celebrate the intrinsic sense of community, the preciousness of the environment and the universal tensions and joys of family life. Katie Morag is a feisty character who has been known to get herself into scrapes but who generally emerges from them (usually with some assistance from one or other of her Grandmothers) in a funny and endearing way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
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Talia in the Kitchen (2015)
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When 14-year-old Talia visits her grandmother for the summer and starts spending time in her family's restaurant, she discovers she's got a gift. With the help of her special "salt and pepper sense" and her late father's magical spices, Talia can whip up some truly life changing cuisine and cook just what each customer needs. She's making magic in the kitchen.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Giada in Italy (2015)
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Giada De Laurentiis returns to the land of her birth for an extended stay, spending time with friends and family and revisiting flavors that have inspired her life's work.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, culinary, realistic, talky
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Christmas Star (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark
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Detention Adventure (2019)
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Three nerdy friends and the school bully must get themselves thrown into detention to find the entrance to a labyrinth of trap-laden tunnels protecting the fabled hidden lab of Alexander Graham Bell.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Topsy and Tim (2013)
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Follow the activities of two children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 11 min
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Reading Rainbow (1983)
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Reading Rainbow was an American children's television series that aired on PBS from June 6, 1983, until November 10, 2006, that encouraged reading by children. The public television series garnered over 200 broadcast awards, including a Peabody Award and 26 Emmy Awards, 11 of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category. The series was created under the leadership of Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, at Lancit Media Productions in New York. The concept of a reading series for children originated with Twila Liggett, Ph.D., and Paul Schupbach, of the Great Plains National Instructional Television Library at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; and Tony Buttino, of WNED-TV Buffalo, New York. The original team included Lynne Brenner Ganek, Ellen Schecter, and host LeVar Burton. Each episode centered on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which was explored through a number of segments or stories. The show also recommended books for kids to look for when they went to the library. It is the third-longest running children's series in PBS history, after Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street. It was also one of the first PBS shows to be broadcast in stereo.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: educational
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Take Hart (1977)
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Take Hart is a British children's television show about art, presented by Tony Hart. It took over from Vision On, and ran from 1977 until 1983. The show featured Hart and the animated Plasticine character Morph, and other characters created by David Sproxton like 'Smoulder the Moulder', which was a lump of mould which would create props by 'spraying' them out of a spray can. The only other human to appear on a regular basis was Mr Bennett, the caretaker, played by Colin Bennett. The programme won a BAFTA award for Hart in 1984. As well as demonstrating small-scale projects, Hart also created large-scale artworks on the TV studio floor, and even used beaches and other open spaces as 'canvases'. This idea was later adopted by Art Attack. A regular feature of the show was 'The Gallery', which displayed artworks sent in by young viewers. The easy-listening vibraphone music accompanying this feature - "Left Bank Two", composed by Wayne Hill - has passed into British TV musical lore. In later series, "Left Bank Two" alternated with John Williams' recording of "Cavatina", which is also well-remembered by many viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: claymation
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had acquired the rights to the story; the series debuted on September 17, 1969, and was last broadcast on March 1, 1972. Bixby received an Emmy nomination for the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, retro
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Grand Maison Tokyo (2019)
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Natsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) is a chef, specializing in French cuisine. He runs a restaurant in Paris that has earned 2 stars from Michelin Guide. Natsuki Obana is confident, but he suffers from pressure trying to attain 3 stars. An unexpected case takes place. Due to that, he loses his restaurant and colleagues. Under a very difficult situation, he meets female chef Rinko Hayami (Kyoka Suzuki). They decide to start a restaurant together and struggle to make the restaurant 3 stars.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Barney & Friends (1992)
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Barney & Friends is an American children's television series aimed at children from ages 2 to 5. The series, which first aired on April 6, 1992, features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimistic attitude. New episodes have not been produced since 2009; however reruns continue to air on various PBS stations.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spooky, humorous, semi serious, independent film, educational
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Waffles + Mochi (2021)
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Curious puppet pals Waffles and Mochi travel the world exploring the wonders of food and culture while learning how to cook with fresh ingredients.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: educational, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, smart, clever
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The Electric Company (2006)
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The Electric Company is an American television series for young children aged 4–8 on PBS, derived from the 1971 series. The series premiered as a four-episode mini-marathon on PBS on January 19, 2009, then became a weekly series with an episode shown each Friday. On September 7, 2009, it became a daily series. Like the original, this version is produced by Sesame Workshop. The series is sometimes referred to as The New Electric Company to distinguish it from the 1970s series. It airs on PBS Kids Go!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, educational