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TV Media Weekly | May 25 - 31, 2019 By Adam Thomlison TV Media Q: What happened to Food Network's new show "The Flay List" that was supposed to be premiering in early April? I haven't seen it on the schedule. A: "The Flay List" has evaporat- ed from Food Network's schedule like so much boiling water. The show has not only been scrubbed from the network's schedule but also from its website. There used to be a dedicated page at FoodNetwork.com/TheFlayList, but it now just redirects back to the network home page. That's not a good sign. It's quite a mystery. The show, in which celebrity chef Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie tour New York eateries, was generating a good deal of buzz ahead of its widely advertised premiere on April 11. It was also a big piece of the multi-year deal that Bobby signed with the Food Network late last year. The show seems to have already been filmed, since it wasn't yanked from the schedule until shortly be- fore the scheduled premiere, and since the list of featured restau- rants was released in advance. Q: I just watched a delightful British romantic comedy called "Man Up," and I know I recog- nized the lead actress, but I can't think of why. Can you help? A: It's possible you've fallen vic- tim to the same trick that took in the film's cast: you might have an easier time placing Lake Bell if you knew she's not actually British. "Man Up" (2015) stars British comedy wunderkind Simon Pegg and Lake Bell, an American actress who does a plausible English ac- cent throughout. It was so plausible, in fact, that the film's crew reportedly didn't know it wasn't real. Pegg, in an interview with As- bury Park Press, said that Bell kept the accent up even off-camera dur - ing the shoot, so that she could "improve and … think in a British accent." So at the end of the shoot, when Bell thanked and said good- bye to the crew, they were sur- prised to hear her do it in an Ameri- can accent. But in fact, she's best known as an American TV actress. Comedy fans know her as the dreamy Don- na in the two "Wet Hot American Summer" series (which spun off from the original film), or as Dr. Cat Black/Dixie Peters in another cult favorite, the Adult Swim series "Childrens Hospital." If you're more of a drama per- son, you might know her from a very different series — the 2005- 06 NBC sci-fi mystery "Surface." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Hollywood Q&A By Andrew Warren TV Media H as it really been 10 years since "MasterChef" first took America by storm? The cooking competition, which chef Gordon Ramsay ("Hell's Kitchen") likes to proudly remind viewers is one of the big- gest in the world, first premiered back in 2010, and with no signs of slowing down, its landmark 10th season arrives Wednesday, May 29, on Fox. The judging lineup this season should look pretty familiar. It's un- changed from last year's, with chef Ramsay, chef Aarón Sánchez and restaurateur Joe Bastianich all back to offer advice and cri- tiques to the contestants, and each week sending at least one of them home empty-handed. Unlike many other popular cooking competitions, such as Bravo's "Top Chef" or Food Net- work's "Chopped," "MasterChef" doesn't feature professional chefs competing. Here, it's only ama- teurs, home cooks with masterful palates and dreams of making it big in the culinary industry. Being able to cook for someone as inter- nationally acclaimed as chef Ram- say or chef Sánchez is a dream come true for most of them, and even when their dishes are disas- ters, the judges' criticism is always helpful. Last season, MasterChef shook things up by having the three judges divide the contes- tants into teams that they then mentored throughout the com- petition. Not only did 25-year-old home cook Gerron Hurt take home the cool $250,000 prize and the coveted "MasterChef" trophy, but it was also a win for his mentor, Bastianich, who'd en- couraged and guided him throughout the competition. Whether the mentoring system will return this season remains to be seen — a common criticism leveled against it was that we rarely ever saw the mentors actu- ally, well, mentoring — but some- how, 10 seasons in, "MasterChef" continues to feel fresh and excit- ing with each new season. A big part of that is no doubt the com- petitors. They're always a colorful bunch from all walks of life, bound together by their shared love of cooking and desire to turn that love into a career. With nine seasons behind it, MasterChef is still going strong. Meet a new batch of culinary hopefuls when the 10th season premieres Wednesday, May 29, on Fox. 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