Dan Levy wears an orange suit, looks into the camera and flashes two peace signs while Annie Murphy leans over his shoulder and scrunches her face

Dan Levy Is Giving Us the Gift of a Brunch Cooking Competition Show

Things are moving ahead with Dan Levy’s brunch-centric reality competition show—a thing I did not know was happening until now and now that I do, it’s all I want in the world.

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Levy, of Schitt’s Creek fame, created The Big Brunch and will executive produce as well as host. Now, Variety reports that the show has also found its judges: chef Sohla El-Waylly and restaurateur Will Guidara. Guidara is the co-author of four cookbooks and El-Waylly is one of the former stars of Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen YouTube channel who helped lead the movement calling out the company’s alleged culture of discrimination in 2020.

Here’s how Variety described the show back when it was first announced in November of last year:

Levy created and will host the series that centers around celebrating inspiring but still undiscovered culinary voices from all across the U.S — but also brunch. As the title promises, the competing chefs will have to find innovative and personal ways to redefine what it means to dine between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The series will spotlight the chefs’ stories and business dreams while also giving them a chance to compete for a “life-altering prize.” (HBO Max has yet to announced the specific details around the episodic format or prize amount.)

We’ve been seeing a great wave of scammer-based content recently (Bad Vegan, Tinder Swindler, WeCrashed, etc.) and while that truly is one of my favorite genres, I can’t think of a better counterbalance than a Dan Levy brunch show.

Also, it should be mandated from here out that the only people who get to create/host/enjoy food competition shows are people with opinions like this:

No word yet on when The Big Brunch is set to premiere but it can’t come soon enough.

(via: Variety, image: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for MTV)


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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.