• Reality TV shows make 2006 into Bravo's best ratings year ever

  January 8, 2007
  Bravo enjoyed its best ratings year ever in 2006, and the basic cable network has its reality TV programming to thank. 

• Bravo's 'Top Chef 2' sets ratings records in post-holidays return

  January 8, 2007
  The second season of Top Chef returned to Bravo with a bang after a three-week holiday hiatus, as the series' January 3 episode attracted 2.2 million viewers, making it the most watched episode of the series ever, according to Nielsen ratings figures.

• Bravo renews its 'Top Chef' reality series for a third season

  January 2, 2007
  Although the reality culinary competition's second edition has yet to conclude its broadcast run, Bravo has announced that it has already renewed Top Chef for a third season.
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  Bravo's 'Top Chef 2' to begin filming this month, premiere in October

  July 13, 2006
  Bravo has announced that the second edition of its Top Chef culinary reality competition series -- which will feature a new host and take place in a new city -- will begin production later this month and premiere in October.

• Bravo confirms Katie Lee Joel won't return for 'Top Chef 2'

  June 27, 2006
  Verifying online reports that began emerging last week, Bravo has confirmed that Top Chef host Katie Lee Joel won't be returning for the reality show's recently announced second edition.

• Harold Dieterle defeats Tiffani Faison to win Bravo's 'Top Chef'

  May 25, 2006
  Harold Dieterle defeated Tiffani Faison to be crowned the winner of Bravo's Top Chef during last night's broadcast of the reality cooking competition's first season finale.

• Bravo renews 'Top Chef' for a second season, extends current run

  May 2, 2006
  "Top Chef" has been so sweet for Bravo, the cable network Tuesday extended the cooking competition's current run and renewed it for a second season.

• Bravo's 'Top Chef' to premiere after March 8 'Project Runway 2' finale

  January 13, 2006
  Hoping to expose its new Top Chef reality series to as many Project Runway viewers as possible, Bravo has announced that decided to bump the premiere of the new reality cooking competition up a week and debut it immediately after the Wednesday, March 8 at 10PM ET/PT broadcast of Runway's second season finale.

• Bravo reveals the identities of its 'Top Chef' contestants

  December 17, 2005
  Bravo revealed the identities of the twelve aspiring chefs who will compete in Top Chef, its new reality competition series that will premiere Wednesday, March 15 at 10PM ET/PT.

• Katie Lee Joel to host Bravo's upcoming 'Top Chef' reality series

  November 10, 2005
  Bravo has announced that Katie Lee Joel, the 24-year-old new trophy wife of 56-year-old music icon Billy Joel, will serve as the host of its new upcoming Top Chef reality series.

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