Food Network ‘Worst Cooks In America’ Murder Defendant Ariel Robinson Expected To Testify

EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is set to begin production on a movie adaptation of Katie Lee Biegel’s bestselling debut novel Groundswell. Beigel, a popular Food Network host, will serve as executive producer on the project and will make a cameo appearance.

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fugue) makes her english language debut with The Silent Twins, the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge that landed them in the tightly secured medical ward of Broadmoor  for 11 years before being released in the 1980’s. Creating their own puppetry and dolls, poems, and music which they only broadcast for each other on a fake radio program, the “twinies” as they were called by family fell into an odd void that became more pronounced, even when they were forced to go to separate schools at one point, and they carried on this way until becoming young women landing into legal troule  until incredibly being incarcerated for over a decade, five or six times as long as the longest sentence for the petty crimes of which they were accused.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe producers of “90 Day Fiancé” are cooking up a new reality series at Food Network and Discovery+ that follows four couples “trying to beat the odds of ending up in divorce court, while also navigating the unique challenges of the cutthroat restaurant industry,” Variety has learned exclusively.Premiering June 30 at 10 p.m. ET on Food Network and launching on Discovery+, “Me or the Menu” is described as a “new twist on the relationship docuseries” from Sharp Entertainment, the production company behind TLC’s mega-hit “90 Day Fiancé” franchise.Per its official description, “‘Me or the Menu’ shines a spotlight on some of the reasons that approximately 60% of restaurants fail and nearly 50% of marriages end in divorce, and while some of the featured couples have just opened the doors of their new restaurants, others are diving-in headfirst hoping to make it to opening day.

Chip and Joanna Gaines are diving deep into the baking game, with the announcement of a brand new show for Magnolia Network.

An undercover cop befriends a murder suspect in The Stranger, a taut Australian thriller in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Written and directed by Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), it features excellent performances from Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also serves as producer.

A man has finally been charged in the death of missing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterChip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network has ordered four new original series as part of its Summer/Fall 2022 slate, including a new edition of “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home” set at the couple’s Cottonland Castle in Waco, Texas and a baking competition hosted at their own Silos Baking Co., Variety has learned exclusively.Additionally, the Magnolia Network, which is a co-venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, has picked up a renovation series starring Annie Hawkins and Brittany Baker, a Casey Corn-hosted family-recipe docuseries and new seasons of “The Lost Kitchen,” “Restoration Road With Clint Harp” and “Zoë Bakes.”While “Silos Baking Competition” is the only food competition on the new lineup, Variety is told it is planned as the first of many at Magnolia Network with more coming later this year.

Valerie Bertinelli, has officially filed to divorce her ex-husband, Tom Vitale. ET has obtained documents, filed to the Los Angeles Superior Court of California on May 12, that cite «irreconcilable differences» as the reason for the couple's breakup. You'll recall, the “Valerie’s Home Cooking” host married Vitale, a financial planner, in January of 2011 after dating for several years. The couple does not have any children together and, according to the divorce documents, a prenuptial agreement is in order. It was in November 2021 when the couple first announced their separation, though they have been separated since December 2019.Vitale was Bertinelli's second husband, she was first married to the late rockstar Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007.

HGTV and Food Network are bolstering their lineups.

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The winner of a Food Network cooking show competition has been found guilty in the beating death last year of a 3-year-old foster child in her care.The jury deliberated for about an hour before delivering the unanimous verdict Thursday against Ariel Robinson, 30, of Simpsonville, news outlets reported.

Ariel Robinson, who is best known for winning season 20 of Worst Cooks in America, has been sentenced to life in prison in relation to the death of her 3-year-old foster child, Victoria “Tori” Smith.

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WYFF reported.Shortly after the guilty verdict, Robinson was sentenced to life in prison. Judge Letitia H. Verdin told Robinson, “I can say that in my 13, 14 years of being a judge, I’ve never seen anything like this.

It took just an hour of deliberations for a Greenville County South Carolina jury to find former Food Network star Ariel Robinson guilty of homicide by child abuse.

Bravo is preparing for the return of many of its most popular shows.The network granted renewals Thursday for series including “Top Chef,” “Project Runway,” “Married to Medicine,” “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles,” “Summer House,” “Winter House,” “Family Karma,” “Below Deck,” “Below Deck Mediterranean,” “Vanderpump Rules,” and “The Real Housewives” of Orange County, New Jersey, New York City, Potomac and Salt Lake City. In addition to these returning shows, Bravo is expanding its already robust unscripted slate with even more reality content. The network has greenlit three new series: “Real Girlfriends in Paris,” “Southern Charm: Leva Land” (working title) and “XSCAPE /SWV” (working title).“Real Girlfriends in Paris” follows six American women in their 20s who move to Paris to encounter a romantic rendezvous or two and embrace all the spontaneity that comes with living in an exciting new city.