Top Chef's special: text messages

Viewers can receive SMS text messages from reality-show characters throughout the season of Top Chef, a new cooking competition that airs on the cable network, reports. TV.com.

Top Chef follows 12 hopeful chefs as they compete in San Francisco for $100,000 in seed money to start their own restaurant. Winners will also be featured in Food & Wine magazine, appear at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen in June 2006, and most importantly, earn the prestigious title of "Top Chef."

Top Chef premieres Wednesday, March 8, at 11:00 p.m.

Interesting:

-- Britain's Reality TV Craze Fuels Text Message Voting The reality TV craze sweeping the UK has reached the mobile industry, according to M:Metrics' latest figures. The measurement firm's January Benchmark Survey found that 21.8% of British mobile subscribers (8.9 million) voted in a TV or radio poll in a month during the quarter ended January 2006, compared with 12.1% of German (5 million) and 7% of US (12.3 million), mobile subscribers.

emily | 12:39 PM | SMS, Television and Radio |
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