Cooking shows are hot on television now days, creating serious competition among the celebrity cooks as well as prospective winners in various formats on TV. MasterChef features the likes of Gordon Ramsay (Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares) along side Joe Bastianich (restaurateur/vineyard owner), and Graham Elliot (chef/restaurant owner) as judges who oversee the contestants who come from a wide assortment of occupations including housewives, doctors, lawyers, private chefs, realtors, and travel writers. From what appears to be a huge crowd in the initial tryouts they whittle the prospects down to 100, then down to 38 or so and put them all to the test. With each contestant offering their "signature" dish to the judges, the competition begins and so does elimination, one by one. It is amazingly difficult to please all three judges as they are diverse in their likes and taste preferences, and the pressure is on to perform and show they have a talent for cooking. The coveted crown of MasterChef will be given to whomever can best please the judges and keep their head about them in the heat of the kitchen.

If you like watching shows like the Jersey Shore and all those Housewives of"¦ somewhere, you just might fall in love with Russian Dolls. Full of hair extensions, sex, arguing, gold chains, partying, drinking (vodka of course), and plenty of techno style music, these Russian Dolls are not the type to sit on a collectors shelf. Brighton Beach is home to the largest Russian American gathering place in New York. This community has plenty to show off including young beautiful women such as Anastasia, a 26 year old who has long blonde hair (with help from some hair extensions), deep tan, toned body, and ample make up. Her future hopes include college graduation but she's not trying very hard. The Levitis', Marina and Michael are owners of a popular local nightclub and Michael has somehow become involved with corruption that involves a state Senator. But don't let the gold chains, sex, and non stop partying keep you from watching Russian Dolls. After all the show's producers were out and about drumming up cast members by posting signs advertising for the next "Situation" or "Snooki" characters to step up and audition for the show. Just like other shows with similar formats, Russian Dolls are not afraid to showcase their intimate lives and all the sordid details viewers could ever ask for. Not exactly the prostitution game as the name implies, but plenty of steamy sex and exhibitionism.

Hot Ones is a popular YouTube show that features celebrity guests being interviewed while eating spicy hot wings. The show is hosted by Sean Evans, who asks his guests a series of questions while they try to handle the increasingly spicy wings. The heat levels of the wings are measured in Scoville units, a unit used to measure the spiciness of chili peppers.

Imported in USA from Great Britain, "Undercover Boss TV show" works on a simple, delectably ironic premise: For a week, the CEO of a major American company goes into stealth mode, impersonating a brand new employee at his own company. The bigger the company, the more the premise works, because most rank-and-file workers could not distinguish between photos of their CEOs and headshots of Carl Rove. CEOs typically spend an entire week going from one entry-level position to another. They go in equipped with plausible back-stories and perfectly plausible explanations for the presence of a film crew; the best of them act just as surprised to see the cameras as all of their co-workers. If the work-a-day grind fails to serve-up "organic" drama, the producers stage challenging situations to develop both the action and the bond between boss and worker. At the end of the undercover week, employees learn "the new guy's" true identity, and the boss rewards employees who have done well or refers struggling workers for more training.

The Biggest Loser TV show is the reality contest series in which couples of overweight people have to overcome various obstacles on the way to reducing its weight and gain good physical shape. Typically, these obstacles are not physical in nature, but psychological only. Laziness and lack of willpower, lack of confidence in themselves, the desire to cheat are the main barriers to a healthy lifestyle for anyone. But at NBC's The Biggest Loser TV show is something else that makes contestants going to do anything to achieve the goal - it's Prize. The couple who reach the best results for weight loss wins the Prize. And perhaps nothing motivates so well as $ 250,000 prize for the fact that you yourself will improve your health. As it as a problem of overweight is spreading around the world - just the same way grows audience of The Biggest Loser. TV show began in 2004 in the U.S. and already has his many fans in 26 countries, where it appears on television screens under different names, but with the same idea: Your goal is to lose weight - becoming healthy and wealthy. And a big cash prize stimulates contestants equally well the in the U.S. as anywhere in the world from South Africa to Ukraine.

Food blogger and travel vlogger, Mark Wiens, takes viewers on a six-part docuseries exploring Singapore's culture and cuisine in a new show called "Food Affair with Mark Wiens." The series delves into the rich and diverse food scene in Singapore, which is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and international cuisines.