#FIRSTLOOK: FOOD NETWORK CANADA 2021 HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING LINEUP

The Holidays are here and we love nothing more than binging FOOD NETWORK CANADA during the Holidays! Check-out some of their upcoming Programming offerings to inspire us! Season’s Eatings!

NEW SEASON The Big Bake: Holiday, Season 2 (6x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT  The Big Bake: Holiday is a larger-than-life baking competition series with themed episodes. In each episode, three professional baking teams have five hours to design, bake and decorate a grand-scale cake creation based on a particular theme. These bakers need to think big and bold, blowing up their designs to gigantic proportions and thinking outside the (bakery) box. In the end, the most ambitious, eye-popping and delicious cake will go home with a $10,000 prize.

NEW SEASON Holiday Baking Championship, Season 8 (3x120min & 5x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT The search to find the greatest holiday baker begins as eight amateur bakers enter the kitchen, where they show off their family traditions and superb baking skills. To survive the challenges from week to week, they must prove their abilities in front of our tough-love judges: Duff Goldman, Nancy Fuller and Lorraine Pascale. Hosted by Jesse Palmer, this baking championship is the sweetest way to celebrate this holiday season.

NEW SEASON Holiday Wars, Season 3 (8x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Premieres Sunday, November 7 with back-to-back episodes at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET/PT. Beginning November 14, new episodes continue Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT Holiday Wars sees nine teams of masterful cake and sugar artists battle it out over eight one-hour episodes to create eye-popping and edible seasonal displays. Whether it is creating the perfect snowball fight, or bringing the story of an iconic caroling song to life in the most delicious way imaginable, these confectionary stars must lay it all on the line to impress host Maneet Chauhan and judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira.

NEW SEASON Christmas Cookie Challenge, Season 5 (8x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Premieres Sunday, November 14with back-to-back new episodes at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET/PT.  Beginning November 21 new episodes continue Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT Holiday cookies are more than mere sweets, they are also gifts and mementos of childhood and family celebrations. This holiday season, co-hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson get audiences ready for the holidays with the return of Christmas Cookie Challenge. In each one-hour episode, five daring and confident cookie makers compete in two rounds to prove their holiday cookie-baking skills.

NEW SPECIAL Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown (5x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT beginning November 15 Three teams of talented gingerbread artists face off in the new five-episode spin-off, Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown. Host Jesse Palmer brings audiences inside this festive world of gingerbread delights, as judges Nacho Aguirre, Kardea Brown, and Breegan Jane challenge the gingerbread teams in each standalone one-hour episode to embrace their holiday spirit.

NEW SEASON Buddy vs. Duff: Holiday, Season 4 (3x60min & 1x90min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT beginning November 28 Each episode features Buddy and Duff creating out-of-this-world cakes that perfectly celebrate the holiday season. With just 20 hours to work with their talented teams and bring their masterpieces to life, four esteemed pastry chefs join the teams at their bakeries each week to judge the cakes, including Gesine Prado and Elizabeth Falkner from Jersey City, and Stephanie Boswell and Valerie Gordon judging from Los Angeles.

NEW SPECIAL The Best Thing I Ever Ate Holiday Edition (1x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Thursday, December 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT The All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate Holiday Edition is the ultimate guide to America’s most amazing holiday meals, eats and treats as told by the pros who spend their lives obsessing over food.

NEW SPECIAL Kids Baking Championship: Light Up the Holidays (1x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Monday, December 13 at 8p.m. ET/PT Kids Baking Championship: Light Up the Holidays features fan-favorites returning to the kitchen to make Holiday Candle Tsunami Cakes with a poured sugar flame. Host and judge Duff Goldman is joined by a special guest judge who will offer their unique perspective as a former contestant. In the end, the baker with the best cake will win.

NEW SPECIAL Holiday Wars: Champion Cake Off Special (1x60min) Canadian Broadcast Premiere Sunday, December 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT Host Maneet Chauhan challenges the reigning champions of Halloween Wars and Holiday Wars on Holiday Wars: Champion Cake Off. The two teams of cake and sugar artists must create their own team mascot and show how they will celebrate the New Year with a champagne-inspired cake flavor. Judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira determine which team of champions come out on top.

DAYTIME PROGRAMMING Some of Food Network’s most recognizable faces share holiday-themed instructional programming including new specials The Kitchen: Home for the Holidays and The Pioneer Woman: Holiday and reruns of favourites including Giada’s Holiday Handbook, Girl Meets Farm, Guy’s Ranch Kitchen and  Valerie’s Home Kitchen.