[Sylvie Curry]

TLC has released on their website a sneak preview of the first episode of Season 2 airing August 12th. Since the cat is out of the bag, yep, you might recognize some CBBQA members.

BBQ Pitmasters Season 2

[Shayne Pharis]

seems too "reality tv show" ish.... i preferred the first season's format alot more then this..

i hope all the episodes won't be like this.

[Thom Emery]

:) This is going to be fun

[scott gomes]

I Hope some of the episodes focus on the Contest, thats one of the things i like to see,the contest venue, the crowds, the judges tents, etc, we shall see.

[Rick Hamilton]

Looking forward to some new bbq shows. Curious to see how it all plays out.

[Darian Khosravi]

Hasn't this format played out before on the Verses channel?

[David Farrell]

Darian Khosravi, on 23 July 2010 - 07:49 PM, said:

Hasn't this format played out before on the Verses channel?

Yeah,
Somebody needs to put the show out of it's misery before it continues to die a slow, ugly, public despising death. Even the people in it need to understand that at this point, they are not doing anything th help promote BBQ. They must just be doing it for the money. Very sad!!!

[Shayne Pharis]

I agree with Scott and David.... seems like it's straying from the roots of BBQ. Atleast in the first season we got to see competition. Personally speaking that really helped me alot in what to expect in bbq comp.

This post has been edited by Shayne Pharis: 24 July 2010 - 05:29 PM

[matt brailey]

I won't be watching this season. It is not at all interesting. No offense to Neil, but watching him try to cook gator alongside a Canadian BBQ blogger is not my idea of must see culinary TV. Not for nothing, but if you all want to watch a BBQ cook with a small amount of contest success a la Diva Q try to cook something unsuccessfully, come to any contest, stop by 155 South, and watch me screw up chicken for the umpteenth time. I promise it will be far more entertaining. The tragicomedy alone of being completely unable to cook poultry is priceless for the viewer (inordinately painful for the cook, but I digress). Bottom line, don't waste a slot on your DVR line up on Pitmasters when you can see it live.

More seriously, it is sad to see that this show seems to have devolved into a showcase for personalities within a game show construct. It appears to be lacking in the instructive content related to competitive BBQ that made season one so good. For me, what was exciting about the show was that it at least scratched the surface of competition BBQ. I really think it helped drive interest among prospective competitors. I'm certain it resulted in an increase in contest attendence by the general public. I thought that the first season did a great job in depicting the difficulty of what we do by taking a commercially successful chef and setting him loose to flounder at comps. Also, the different styles of competitor were evident in terms of financial investment and cultural background which effectively showed how BBQ has room for literally everyone (except vegetarians).

Hopefully, we'll see another show come along that will pick up where this one too soon left off and continue to help us grow interest in competitive BBQ.

Matt

[scott gomes]

matt brailey, on 26 July 2010 - 03:24 PM, said:

I won't be watching this season. It is not at all interesting. No offense to Neil, but watching him try to cook gator alongside a Canadian BBQ blogger is not my idea of must see culinary TV. Not for nothing, but if you all want to watch a BBQ cook with a small amount of contest success a la Diva Q try to cook something unsuccessfully, come to any contest, stop by 155 South, and watch me screw up chicken for the umpteenth time. I promise it will be far more entertaining. The tragicomedy alone of being completely unable to cook poultry is priceless for the viewer (inordinately painful for the cook, but I digress). Bottom line, don't waste a slot on your DVR line up on Pitmasters when you can see it live.

More seriously, it is sad to see that this show seems to have devolved into a showcase for personalities within a game show construct. It appears to be lacking in the instructive content related to competitive BBQ that made season one so good. For me, what was exciting about the show was that it at least scratched the surface of competition BBQ. I really think it helped drive interest among prospective competitors. I'm certain it resulted in an increase in contest attendence by the general public. I thought that the first season did a great job in depicting the difficulty of what we do by taking a commercially successful chef and setting him loose to flounder at comps. Also, the different styles of competitor were evident in terms of financial investment and cultural background which effectively showed how BBQ has room for literally everyone (except vegetarians).

Hopefully, we'll see another show come along that will pick up where this one too soon left off and continue to help us grow interest in competitive BBQ.

Matt

Yea, what he said. :twitch:

[John Chips]

matt brailey, on 26 July 2010 - 03:24 PM, said:

I won't be watching this season. It is not at all interesting. No offense to Neil, but watching him try to cook gator alongside a Canadian BBQ blogger is not my idea of must see culinary TV. Not for nothing, but if you all want to watch a BBQ cook with a small amount of contest success a la Diva Q try to cook something unsuccessfully, come to any contest, stop by 155 South, and watch me screw up chicken for the umpteenth time. I promise it will be far more entertaining. The tragicomedy alone of being completely unable to cook poultry is priceless for the viewer (inordinately painful for the cook, but I digress). Bottom line, don't waste a slot on your DVR line up on Pitmasters when you can see it live.

More seriously, it is sad to see that this show seems to have devolved into a showcase for personalities within a game show construct. It appears to be lacking in the instructive content related to competitive BBQ that made season one so good. For me, what was exciting about the show was that it at least scratched the surface of competition BBQ. I really think it helped drive interest among prospective competitors. I'm certain it resulted in an increase in contest attendence by the general public. I thought that the first season did a great job in depicting the difficulty of what we do by taking a commercially successful chef and setting him loose to flounder at comps. Also, the different styles of competitor were evident in terms of financial investment and cultural background which effectively showed how BBQ has room for literally everyone (except vegetarians).

Hopefully, we'll see another show come along that will pick up where this one too soon left off and continue to help us grow interest in competitive BBQ.

Matt

I will watch the first few episodes just to see how far it sinks. BBQ alligator? Give me a break. I figure by the second show they will be tossing midgets or bowling with frozen turkeys. The show should be called BBQ Limbo, how low can you go?

NUTZ

[Benny Adauto]

I'll be watching and rooting for my friends Neil and Sylvie as well as anyone else who I may recognize. Yes, it may not be authentic BBQ but if it brings new people to our sport, I'm all for it.

Benny

[Darry Smith]

Any pub is good pub I guess...it's the whole "Dance monkey, dance" thing that the nation's best pitmasters have to be seen in that is kinda sad.


On another note, can't wait to see QN4U do their thing.

[Thom Emery]

We will be watching

[David Bouska]

Thom Emery, on 26 July 2010 - 07:59 PM, said:

We will be watching

Watching? Okay we will be watching also.

[Sylvie Curry]

I totally enjoyed participating and respect the producers for their vision. Season 2 is not like Season 1 but it's still BBQ and great press for what we are all passionate about.

[Scottie Johnson]

Sylvie Curry, on 26 July 2010 - 11:59 PM, said:

I totally enjoyed participating and respect the producers for their vision. Season 2 is not like Season 1 but it's still BBQ and great press for what we are all passionate about.

I am happy for all that were involved with the show. I have a lot of friends that are in the show.

This is a made for TV production. To say that grilling alligator is the passion that I show for BBQ is not very accurate. I hate to tell folks, but that is not BBQ. To portray it to the American viewing public as BBQ is a disservice to BBQ.

[Alexa Fairbairn]

Smoked alligator tail meat has a long and honored tradition -- as dog food.

As always, it all has to relate to the public-in-general's mindset -- but for the last year, we've had hundreds of people asking if we compete "like on TV", and not one interested in how to grill gator.

I suppose it entered the realm of "for entertainment only" when it went from portraying something that the viewer might reasonably DO, like entering a local contest, to the "grilling cupcakes throwdown" format. I doubt that there will be intense discussions about shigging margarine application from this season!

[Sylvie Curry]

Scottie Johnson, on 27 July 2010 - 07:35 AM, said:

I am happy for all that were involved with the show. I have a lot of friends that are in the show.

This is a made for TV production. To say that grilling alligator is the passion that I show for BBQ is not very accurate. I hate to tell folks, but that is not BBQ. To portray it to the American viewing public as BBQ is a disservice to BBQ.

You must have missed the second preview where we BBQ'ed spare ribs.

[Scottie Johnson]

Sylvie Curry, on 27 July 2010 - 11:06 AM, said:

You must have missed the second preview where we BBQ'ed spare ribs.

I saw that. But they lost my interest after alligator. And for the record, that is how I was reponding to the post as well.