SEASON -9 LOS ANGELES, CA. - DAMARIS.

EPISODE #1:  Are You Ready for Prime Time?                 12 to start.
JUDGES:  Bobby Flay
                  Giade
                  Alton
PRIZES:  Own Show on Food Network.
                 Feature in Food & Wine magazine.
                Headline in New York City Food & Wine Festival.

PLAYERS:
1.  NIKKI, Internet Cook Host
2.  RODNEY  Pie Shop Owner
3.  STACEY  Restaurant Owner.
4.  CHRIS  Restaurant & Food Truck Owner.
5.  DANIELA  Caterer/Bartender.                                                   Peru
6.  RUSSELL  Underground Chef.
7.  DAMARIS  Culinary Instructor.                                       Louisville, KY.                            
8.  ANDRES  Childhood Obesity Counselor.
9.  CONNIE AKA"Lovely"  Caterer.
10.  CHAD  BBQ Restaurant Owner.
11.  DANUSHKA  Personal Chef?Model
12.  VIET  Executive Chef.

FIRST CHALLENGE:  do 30 seconds tape to pitch to the Network executives.

FIRST ELIMINATION CHALLENGE:  Create a dish highlighting the POTATO then in front of an focus group & Bob Tuschman, General Mgr. & Suie Fugelson, SR VP Marketing

ELIMINATED:  Daniela.

EPISODE #2:  Food Network Star Burger Bash.          11 left.
ARRIVED AT:  Culver City, The Culver Studios.
CHALLENGE:  Create a burger for 100 people then give a 2 minutes pitch getting them to try your burger.  Most tokens win.
TOP:  Russell, Chad & Stacey.
BOTTOM:  Danushka, Nikki & Andres.
ELIMINATED:  Andres.

EPISODE #3:  A Star is Chopped.       10 left.
                  Mystery Box.
MENTOR CHALLENGE:  30 minutes to prepare a dish with the mystery ingredient in the bag.
WINNERS:  Rodney & Damaris -have advantage.

STAR CHALLENGE:  Chopped Challenge.
GUEST JUDGE:  Alex Guarnaschelli.
- Rodney & Damaris will be on the judge panel & are safe.
TOP:  Nikki & Chad.
BOTTOM:  Lovely, Stacey, Russell & Danushka
ELIMINATED:  Danushka.

EPISODE #4:  Big Screen Bites Challenge.                         9 left.
                               Movie.

CHALLENGE:  Serve a dinner to a "focal group" & Make a trailer to get them to try your food.
WESTERN:  Stacey, Russell & Nikki.  MUSICAL:  Rodney, Chris & Lovely.
                      ROMANCE:  Viet, Chad & Damaris.
THE JUDGES:
WINNER:  Western Group.
ELIMINATED:  Lovely.

EPISODE #5:  4th July LIVE Challenge.

                              8 left.
CHALLENGE:  present a dish LIVE .  NEW TWIST:  things will go wrong & how you handle it.
GUEST JUDGE:  Terence Jenkins, Co-Anchor of E-News.
WINNER:  Rodney - will have an advantage.

STAR CHALLENGE:  July 4th LIVE  challenge.
- Rodney get to choose what each players will represent.
- Rodney - dessert.                                 Nikki - Fried Chicken.
- Russell - Potatoe Salad.                       Chris - Cole Slaw.
- Viet - Chip & Dip.                               Damaris - Cocktail.
- Chad - Farmer Lee Jones.                    Stacey - Butcher.
WINNER:  Stacey.
SAFE:  Nikki, Chad, Chris, Rodney & Damaris.
BOTTOM:  Russell & Viet.
ELIMINATED:  Viet.


 EPISODE #6:  Product Pitch Challenge      7 left.
CHALLENGE:  Make some sample of your favorite dish, then package it by bottle or jar & sell it.
STAR CHALLENGE:  which one of your product is marketable & pitch it.
GUEST JUDGES:  Sandy Uridge, Sir. Dir. of The Kellogg Co.
                                Jane Hilk, Sr. VP of Marketing of Kraft.
                                Amanda Irish, Sr. Dir. of Target.

EVALUATION:  TOP:  Damaris, Russel & Stacey.
ELIMINATED:  Chris.

EPISODE #7:  Star Charity Auction.  6 left.
CHALLENGE:  Describes the dish that Bobby Flay made w/o using certain words.
BEST:  Nikki & Stacey.  WINNER:  Stacey has an advantage.

STAR CHALLENGE:  1 minutes to describe your dish to some auctioneers to bid on.
- Stacey's advantage is $10.00 head start.

EVALUATION:  More $$ AT AUCTION:  $190.00 Stacey. - Safe.
ELIMINATED:  Chad.

EPISODE #8:  Food Stories from the Road.                         5 left.
WINNER FROM Redemption comes back.  Lovely come back.                       6 left now.
CHALLENGE:  Make a pasta dish then pitch to make the judges eat it.
TWIST:  pitch some one else dish instead of yours.
- Nikki won.  Won an advantage.

STAR CHALLENGE:  Write & Produce a spot on a particular eatery.
- Nikki's advantage is picking her team.  Picked Stacey & Darmis.

EVALUATION:
GUEST JUDGE:  Janice Min, Editorial Director of The Hollywood Reporter.
                              Leslie Bruce,  Senior Writer of           "                 "
                              Gary Baum,         "         "               "         "            ".
- Team Nikki won.
ELIMINATED:  Lovely.

EPISODE #9:  Menu:  Impossible.          5 left.
CHALLENGE:  Make Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner then present it.
- Stacey win.  Won an advantage.
STAR CHALLENGE:  Overhaul a restaurant menu.
GUEST JUDGE:  Robert Irvine.
- Stacey get to pick her own dish.
EVALUATION:  - Russell safe.
ELIMINATED:  Nikki.

EPISODE #10:  Network Pitch Challenge              4 left.
     FINAL FOUR:  Damaris, Russell, Rodney & Stacey.
CHALLENGE:  Make your Pilot Pitch.
- Now Make pitch to Bob & Susie.
- Moving on:  Damaris, Rodney & Russell.
ELIMINATED:  Stacey.

NOW THEY GET TO MAKE THEIR PILOT:
Now America Voted.

EPISODE #11:  America Pick a Star.     3 left.
ARRIVED IN:  New York City.

- Chelsea Market.
Look back at hightlight of the season.
First ELIMINATED:  Russell.
More hightlight.
    Darmis vs. Rodney.

THE NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR IS:  DAMARIS.