The Chew


The Chew is an American cooking-themed talk show that aired for seven seasons from September 26, 2011 to June 28, 2018, having replaced the soap opera All My Children, on ABC as part of the network's weekday daytime lineup. The name was inspired by fellow ABC talk show The View, but The Chew centered on food and lifestyle topics rather than the news of the day.
In April 2015, the five co-hosts of The Chew won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host.
On May 23, 2018, ABC announced the end of the series after its seventh season. The last taped episode aired on June 15, 2018, with new, but pre-recorded episodes airing until June 28, and repeats continuing until September 7; the Good Morning America brand extension GMA Day replaced it on Monday, September 10.

Background

The Chew premiered on September 26, 2011, and replaced the soap opera All My Children. It was hosted for seven seasons by Michael Symon, Carla Hall and Clinton Kelly. Wellness expert Daphne Oz also hosted for the program's first six seasons while, in December 2017, chef Mario Batali stepped down, and was later officially terminated, from hosting the show amid sexual misconduct allegations.
The Chew was produced by British-Australian former talk show host Gordon Elliott, who also served as the show's announcer and has occasional on-camera roles. The show was taped at ABC's Lincoln Square facilities at 30 West 67th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Broadcast

The Chew aired at 1:00 pm Eastern/12 noon Central, the slot formerly occupied by the long-running soap opera All My Children. ABC stations in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, and in Alaska and Hawaii follow a Central time zone schedule for daytime programming; thus, The Chew was scheduled by the network to air at 12 noon in these areas.
A limited number of ABC affiliates in the Central Time Zone aired the program on a one-day delay at 11:00 am in order to continue airing their noon hour local newscasts such as WFAA in Dallas, KRGV-TV in Weslaco, Texas and WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; three stations, WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, KSAT-TV in San Antonio and KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri, had network permission to tape-delay the program same-day to avert situations where episodes with recipes timed to a specific holiday were rendered useless due to the delay.
The Chew aired on week-delay basis weeknights at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central on the Live Well Network. The program also aired in Canada on City.

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