Last Updated on: 17th September 2018, 04:44 pm
Update:
I don’t know whether somebody on AMI’s website team was a hide and seek champion in a previous life or what, but for reasons known only to them, all of the below episode links are broken. This is at least the second time this has happened. The first time I (Steve) was unimpressed, but I went through and fixed them all. This time I am even more unimpressed, and I don’t know if I’m going to bother fixing them again because I’m certain this won’t be the last time this happens. But because it would be nice if a post that promises watch links actually has them and because my little brother is in it, I’ll send you to what is, for now anyway, the full season page. Enjoy the show…while you can.
Original post:
Brad, brother of Steve, baker of many things and keeper of Trixie, is going to be on TV! He’s part of a cooking show series called Menu Match-up which is airing for the next 8 Tuesdays at 8:30 on the Accessible Media Inc (AMI) channel.
Check out the promo. I would love to embed it, but the beautiful player does not seem to have share or embed capabilities.
You can watch his episode on December 12 at 8:30, or multiple times after that. I would love to link to a page showing them all, but that is proving difficult to do. Also, the episode will be available online on AMI’s website after it airs. I’m sure we will get our hands on it. The only little thing is the episodes are geoblocked, so folks outside Canada will have to get creative if they want to watch them.
As much as I love AMI, I kind of need to get a little bit annoyed with them about the media kit PDF file they sent with all the show info in it. It is almost accessible, in fact it was even tagged. But someone forgot to do a little touching up of the reading order, and thus for a screen-reader user, the result looks, well, a little something like this. Seriously. Can you click on the video trailer? Can you make heads or tails of which channel number goes with which network? Can you figure out which show title goes with which show description? Are there any sections so you can skim at all? No? I didn’t think so. I hope they can fix it up, just so they can give an example of what a good PDF looks like.
Here are the episode descriptions. I will attempt to match the titles, but it’s going to take a bit of work because I couldn’t tell what goes with what. I also had to reorder these, because they displayed out of order for me, as you can see from the text file.
Beet Me to It
Episode 101
Airs: October 24 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Orly and Chef Suzanne Barr go up against home cook Yolanda and Chef Toben Kochman. It’s a tight race to the finish as both teams whip up wonders from a crate of secret ingredients.
Judges: Lauren Mozer, Abbey Sharp, Sean EarnshawA Quail of a Time
Episode 102
Airs: October 31 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Ramya and Chef Missy Hui go head to head with home cook Mary and Chef Deji Oduwole. It’s down to the wire; but who comes in first, the chicken or the egg?
Judges: Sang Kim, LeeAnne Wright, Suzanne CaskieSquash the Competition
Episode 103
Airs: November 7 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Alicia and Chef John Cirillo take on home cook Sharon and Chef Anthony Ramundi. Things get “chili”in the kitchen as both teams get creative with canned goods and crackers.
Judges:Matt Dean Pettit, Michelle Jobin, Julie MiguelPasta Wars
Episode 104
Airs: November 14 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Dan and Chef Jonny O’Callaghan battle it out with home cook Sylvia and Chef Joe Friday. The knives and noodles come out as both teams slice and dice their way to pasta perfection.
Judges: Missy Hui, Hubert Leung, Deji OduwoleChoreographed Chaos
Episode 105
Airs: November 21 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Chris and Chef Domenic Chiaromonte face off with home cook Michelle and Chef Sebastian Gallucci. Things go from mild to wild as everything is thrown in except for the kitchen sink.
Judges: Suzanne Caskie, Ryan Hinkson, Russell AuckbaraulleeBlender Blunder
Episode 106
Airs: November 28 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Jean Lydia and Chef Stephanie Tucci compete against home cook Kristina and Chef Russell Auckbaraullee. It’s crunch time as both teams go nuts to bring their best dish forward.
Judges: Kyla Zanardi, Murray Gregga, Afrim PristinePinwheels and Poppers and Pastry, oh my!
Episode 107
Airs: December 5 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Shaunelle and Chef Tallis Voakes go head to head with home cook Karen and Chef Warren Ford. The kitchen heats up as both teams create the best recipe to make or bake a winning dish.
Judges: Joshna Maharaj, Anthony Ramundi, Matthew RavenscroftThe Pits
Episode 108
Airs: December 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT
Home cook Brad and Chef Lauren Mozer team up against home cook Beverley and Chef Christian Pritchard. Peppered with jokes and puns, the teams compete to see who does sweet and savoury best.
Judges: Toben Kochman, Craig Wong, Rob Rossi
Heheh of course Brad’s episode would be full of puns.
Now, if the PDF had been done right, I wouldn’t have to have done all that work, and perhaps I wouldn’t have made mistakes. I think I got it right but who knows?
Anyway, check out the show. There’s another friend on there too, I think he’s in the fifth episode if I got it all right. It should be kinda neat!
Jokes and puns are a family thing with us. I can’t wait to see how much he annoyed everyone with them. I hope he busted out some really terrible ones.
Apologies to anyone who came here to watch episodes only to be greeted by page not found errors. Some genius at AMI decided it would be a good idea to slightly change all of the URLs after some arbitrary point without redirecting them. Fear not, though. I do believe I have fixed them all. Thanks for the extra work, guys. There wasn’t anything else I could have been doing.
Was just reading something about AMI, and it got my brain to wondering if all of these show links still work. They don’t, of course. Seriously, does this place have a former world hide and seek champion on staff in the web department or something? All of the episodes are still available for streaming, but they’ve changed the URLs again. For now, go here to watch them all. Not sure I’m going to bother changing all of them individually again, at least not until I calm down. Seriously, knock it off!