Kristin Chenoweth on Bringing ‘Candy Land’ to Life for Food Network
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Sweet dreams are made of this: Hasbro’s board game comes to life in a new competition for professional confectioners.
After finding ingredients hidden somewhere in Candy Land — say, Lemon Lime Springs or the Gumdrop Mountains — five teams of sugar specialists take on various challenges, creating candied mythical creatures, one-of-a-kind gifts for King Kandy and more. Their work is judged by Spring Baking Championship‘s winning chocolatier Nacho Aguirre and The Next Food Network Star’s Season 6 victor, Aarti Sequeira.
Over six episodes, Emmy and Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth guides contestants through the Wonka-worthy interpretations of classic Candy Land locations. More than 100 pounds of chocolate form Chocolate Mountain. Lollipop Woods contains 1,000 suckers. Giant candy canes fill the Peppermint Forest.
“When I got on set, I freaked out,” she says. “[We] are physically in the game. It looks beautiful.” Good enough to eat, actually. “The entire set was edible,” the admitted chocolate fan notes, laughing. “You could pick something off a tree and eat it. They didn’t want us to, but by the end of the night, just try and stop me!”
Currently, Chenoweth also voices a mouse in HBO Max’s The Witches and plays Emma Roberts‘ aunt in Netflix’s Holidate, but this project takes the cake: “I remember [as a kid] my older brother was moving on to Monopoly and Chutes and Ladders, but I was like, ‘No, I want to play Candy Land!'” Us too.
Candy Land, Series Premiere 9/8c, Sunday, November 15, Food Network
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This show is terrible Kristens dresses are horrible the Judges are complete a holes really rude its like they want to put down the contestants and not encourage them to do better DON'T WATCH !!
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Can I have the 1.5 hours I wasted watching this terrible show? The show's format is terrible. Wasn't this billed as a cooking show? Instead of watching professionals make large scale candy structures, the viewer is forced to watch the hostess (Chenowerth) flit about in age-inappropriate clothing. This will be the only Food Network cooking show I will not watch. The show is terrible. It needs to be totally revamped.
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A sugary train wreck. I had such high hopes for this show. A mess. Kristin Chenoweth prances around the set in what appears to be dresses from Forever 21. They should have had her in a candy-striped, full-length, gown or something much more creative. This show's target audience is the LBGTQABCDEFG community. I would love to know the backgrounds of what is advertised as "some of the best sugar artists in the world", as they all looked like cosplay rejects with lollipops. I saw zero talent. The competition projects were ridiculous and made no sense. They had candy all over the set in cheap, plastic bowls that you can pick up at Dollar Tree. Candyland is one, big, cheap, sugary dumpster fire. So disappointed. Perhaps this is Kristin's way of supplementing her income while Broadway stays dark.
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Maybe Stan needs some sugar . . . Bitter, bitter.
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