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Max Silvestri Is Co-Hosting a Comedic Cooking Show for the FYI Network

by | February 26th, 2014

A+E's lifestyle network Bio is relaunching under the name FYI, and standup Max Silvestri will be one of the revamped channel's new faces. According to THR, Silvestri has joined Top Chef's Gail Simmons and The Taste's Marcus Samuelsson as hosts of FYI's new series called The Feed, a "food comedy road show" that will help inject more humor into the world of food and cooking shows.

"It's time for lifestyle to show that is can have a sense of humor," A+E president Jana Bennett said. "There's a lot of comedy in life, and yet the old-fashioned instructional lifestyles shows didn't leave a lot of room for humor." [...]

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David Koechner Is Starring in a Comedy Pilot that May End Up on the History Channel

by | April 24th, 2013

David Koechner is set to star in a pilot the could end up being his first TV role in half a decade. Deadline reports that A&E Networks (the cable conglomerate that owns History, Lifetime, and A&E) has greenlit a pilot called Whitey that will star Koechner as the lead character Guy “Whitey” White. Here's the description of the character:

"[Whitey is] a bright, conservative and frustrated guy in his 40s who is struggling to understand the changing values of a country in a world that has forever gone with the wind. Whitey graduated high school, married his high school sweetheart and spent his career working at the local engine [...]