“FRIDGE WARS” AND ‘TASKMASTER” SWAP TIME PERIODS ON THE CW’S SUMMER SCHEDULE
Culinary Competition FRIDGE WARS Moves to 8pm and Comedic Challenge Series TASKMASTER to Air at 9pm on Sunday, August 2
June 23, 2020 (Burbank, CA) – The CW Network announced today that two of its new summer series are switching time periods as FRIDGE WARS will now air from 8:00-9:00pm ET/PT and TASKMASTER will move to 9:00-10:00pm ET/PT on premiere night Sunday, August 2.
In The CW’s culinary competition series FRIDGE WARS, top chefs compete to make an amazing feast using leftovers and ingredients found in your fridge. In each episode, two top chefs are pitted against one another with a challenge to create extraordinary meals using only the ingredients taken from the fridges of ordinary families. We learn why dinnertime is a source of stress and panic when host Emma Hunter visits a family’s home and conducts a surprise fridge raid— taking everything from last week’s leftover lasagna to the condiment collection, and even snatching that questionable bag of frozen vegetables from 2016. The competition commences back at the FRIDGE WARS studio where the family’s fridge is recreated for both chefs. Once the clock starts, the chefs have 45 minutes to get dinner on the table — cooking with ingredients they’ve never seen for people they’ve never met! Inside their fridges, the chefs scour through the ingredients imagining what they can possibly pull together. When time’s up, the family takes their place at the dining room table and tastes each meal, scoring them on look, taste and originality — without knowing who cooked what. Those results go in the FRIDGE WARS vault and we do it all again with a new family and a new fridge full of challenges, this time upping the ante with a “What the Fridge (WTF) Challenge” that forces both chefs to adapt to a totally unique culinary crisis. With both families’ scores tabulated, the final scene reveals which chef successfully created a mouth-watering masterpiece to win the “Fridge Wars” battle. Hosted by comedian Emma Hunter, FRIDGE WARS is co-produced and co-created by The Gurin Company and the CBC. The show is executive produced by Tracie Tighe (CBC) and Emmy® and Rose d’Or winner Phil Gurin (The Gurin Company).
The CW’s new comedic competition series TASKMASTER is an International Emmy and triple BAFTA nominated comedy game show starring comedian and actor Greg Davies in the title role of the all-powerful Taskmaster, who issues simple comedic and bizarre tasks to five regular contestants – usually comedians – with Alex Horne (the show creator) acting as the Taskmaster’s assistant. The tasks – usually performed in isolation, but occasionally in teams – are designed to encourage the players to think laterally and creatively. TASKMASTER is from Avalon (“Breeders,” “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” “Catastrophe”) with executive producers Alex Horne, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, James Taylor, Jon Thoday and Andy Devonshire (who also serves as the series’ director) with Hilary Rosen for UKTV.
TASKMASTER was originally scheduled to premiere on Sunday, August 2 (8:00-9:00pm ET), and FRIDGE WARS was originally scheduled to premiere on Sunday, August 2 (9:00-10:00pm ET).
The following is The CW’s revised Sunday summer schedule effective Sunday, August 2. All times ET/PT:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
8:00-9:00pm FRIDGE WARS (New Time – Series Premiere)
9:00-10:00pm TASKMASTER (New Time – Series Premiere)
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