Summer TV preview 2009

Cooking shows

Top Chef Masters
Premieres June 10 on Bravo
We're still waiting on "Top Chef Junior," Bravo's proposed spinoff to their successful (and often imitated) cooking reality show. But until that day, we've got "Top Chef Masters." The format is still a bit of a mystery, but a weekly panel of celebrity judges (including Neil Patrick Harris and Zooey Deschanel) will taste, critique and, we assume, plug their current projects with wild abandon.

Hell's Kitchen
Premieres July 21 on Fox
Get out your earplugs, and keep on eye on that risotto—gluttons for punishment (as well as gluttons for food) will be treated to a new season of Gordon Ramsay's shout-fest this summer. The winner receives a job at a prestigious restaurant and a $250,000 salary.