Netflix Renews 'Dinner Time Live With David Chang' For Season 2
Sept. 10, 2024, 4 p.m.
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Netflix is bringing back a new season of its cooking series “Dinner Time Live With David Chang ,” and just in time for the holidays. The series’ Season 2 is set to launch on Tuesday, Oct. 8, with nine 50-minute episodes, which will roll out weekly.
On “Dinner Time Live,” the famed restauranteur (founder of the Momofuku restaurant group) “personally cooks for his celebrity friends in his kitchen in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a VIP experience where the meal, the mishaps, and the conversation all unfold in real time. No food swap-outs, no food stylists, just real how-to culinary secrets and recipes from a world-renowned chef who’s cooking live,” per the synopsis.
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Focusing Season 2 on holiday-themed dishes, Chang remarked, “To me, the holidays are all about overindulging in food and drinks with loved ones. Fortunately, so is ‘Dinner Time Live.’ I can’t wait to show appreciation to our guests this season by preparing holiday-inspired menus, serving them an abundance of food, and adding a few surprises along the way.”
The new episodes of “Dinner Time Live” will be streamed live on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT. It’s one of the few — perhaps the only? — shows that air on a weekly basis on Netflix, which has been experimenting with its release schedule recently. (Although most series are still released in full for binge-watching, some shows — particularly unscripted ones — are being released in batches.)
“Dinner Time Live” also reflects a growing trend of live programming at Netflix, which recently included another food-related event, “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.” Netflix’s live offerings have included “The Roast of Tom Brady,” “Katt Williams: Woke Foke,” “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA,” “Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats,” “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” the “Netflix Slam” and the “Netflix Cup.” Upcoming events include Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson and NFL games on Christmas Day, as well as the Netflix premiere of WWE Raw and another year of the SAG Awards.
Majordomo Media and Den of Thieves are behind “Dinner Time Live,” which launched in January and has already produced 26 episodes this year. Executive producers include Chang, Chris Ying, Christopher Chen, Noelle Cornelio, Brandon Monk, Jesse Ignatovic, Evan Prager and Jared Morell. Monk serves as the showrunner. Chang previously created and starred in the Netflix series “Ugly Delicious.”
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