Just a few of the new cooking shows that will be premiering in the next month or so:<br />
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April 28 (tonight): PBS begins a 12-episode series "Cooking Under Fire" (check local listings) in which 12 contestants vie for a job at one of chef Todd English’s New York restaurants. The show mixes "The Apprentice" and "American Idol"’ with Julia Child.<br />
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May 2 (Monday): Bravo will devote most of its prime time to "The Million Dollar Recipe" (8 PM EDT), a documentary-as-reality-TV film about the 2004 Pillsbury Bake-Off. In the world of competitive cooking, the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest, with its million dollar grand prize, is as big as the Oscars… in the eyes of its competitors.<br />
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May 30: Fox will debut "Hell’s Kitchen" (9 PM EDT). As Fox are now impersonators instead of inovators, the series that sounds a lot like "Cooking Under Fire’" will have contestants competing for a restaurant job. It is overseen by world-renowned but terrifying Head Chef Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay and Hell’s Kitchen will serve helpings of terror, tears, tantrums and triumphs in this series.
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