Roku is getting additional into the meals TV house, selecting up a brand new collection known as Greatest Chew Wins.
The meals competitors collection shall be hosted and govt produced by actor Josh Peck, with chef Monti Carlo serving because the present’s culinary knowledgeable. The six-episode collection is produced by Velvet Hammer Media and Bongo Footage.
The idea of Greatest Chew Wins is to show cocktail occasion meals into a contest, with skilled cooks competing to current the most effective occasion meals to hungry judges and clientele at actual occasions, together with birthday events and retirement celebrations.
“We thrilled to associate with Josh Peck, Velvet Hammer Media, and [EP] Michael Bloom to convey a recent and enjoyable new competitors collection for our viewers to devour,” stated Olivia LaRoche, head of different originals for Roku. “Meals content material deeply resonates with our streamers, and we’re happy to present them extra of what they love and additional bolster our Roku Originals slate with Greatest Chew Wins.”
Meals content material has develop into an enormous style for Roku, with packages like The Nice American Baking Present, Morimoto’s Sushi Grasp, Emeril Cooks and different meals programming doing effectively for the streaming platform by means of its Roku Channel FAST providing.
“The Roku Channel has a menu of unique content material that’s unmatched,” Peck added. “I couldn’t be happier to be becoming a member of the slate, together with Velvet Hammer Media and Bongo Footage, to convey Greatest Chew Wins to hungry viewers in all places.”
“Josh, Monti and Velvet Hammer actually created an extremely enjoyable and aggressive ambiance round everybody’s love and infatuation with appetizers,” added Bloom. “The primary course doesn’t matter on this collection! Actually love how the crew at Roku leaned proper in from their first chew of this idea.”
The six-episode collection is produced by Velvet Hammer Media and Bongo Footage. Jennifer O’Connell and Rebecca Quinn govt produce for Velvet Hammer Media. Michael Bloom, Josh Peck and Matthew Hobin additionally function govt producers