Brown was the cinematographer for several music videos, including The One I Love by R. E. M. 56Brown notes that he was very dissatisfied with the quality of cooking shows airing on American television, so he set out to produce his own show. In preparation, he enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute, graduating in 1. Brown says that he was a poor science student in high school and college, but he focused on the subject to understand the underlying processes of cooking. He is outspoken in his shows about his dislike of single purpose kitchen utensils and equipment unitaskers, such as garlic presses and margarita machines, although he adapts a few traditionally single purpose devices, such as rice cookers and melon ballers, into multi purpose tools. TV serieseditGood EatseditThe pilot for Good Eats first aired in July 1. PBS member TV station WTTW in Chicago, Illinois. Food Network picked up the show in July 1. The Defenders star Sigourney Weaver wants fans to know that her nefarious character, Alexandra, is an adversary, not a villain. In May 2. 01. 1, Alton Brown announced an end to Good Eats after 1. The final episode, Turn on the Dark, aired February 1. Many of the Good Eats episodes feature Brown building makeshift cooking devices in order to point out that many of the devices sold at conventional cooking stores are simply fancified hardware store items. Good Eats was nominated for the Best T. V. Food Journalism Award by the James Beard Foundation in 2. The show was also awarded a 2. Peabody Award. 1. On Altons 2. 01. Good Eats will have a sequel, and it will be released in 2. Iron Chef AmericaeditIn 2. Brown appeared on Iron Chef America Battle of the Masters. This was the second attempt to adapt the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef to American television the first being UPNs Iron Chef USA, which featured William Shatner, and was not well received. Brown served as the expert commentator, a modified version of the role played by Dr. Yukio Hattori in the original show. When the show became a series, Brown began serving as the play by play announcer, with Kevin Brauch as kitchen reporter. Brown also served as the host for all five seasons of the spin off The Next Iron Chef. Feasting on AsphalteditBrowns third series, Feasting on Asphalt, explores the history of eating on the move. Brown and his crew crossed the United States via motorcycle in a four part miniseries about the history of road food. Brown samples food all along his travel route. He includes a history of food segment documenting famous road trips and interviews many of the foodies he meets en route. The series premiered on Food Network on July 2. The mini series was picked up for a second run, entitled Feasting on Asphalt 2 The River Run, in 2. Six episodes were filmed during April and May 2. The episodes trace the majority of the length of the Mississippi River through Browns travels. The second run of episodes began airing on Food Network on August 4, 2. The third season uses the title Feasting on Waves and has Brown traveling the Caribbean Sea by boat in search of local cuisine. Cutthroat KitcheneditIn 2. Brown began hosting the cooking competition series Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network. In each episode, four chefs are each given 2. Yams Vs Sweet Potatoes on this page. Three chefs are eliminated one by one, and the winner keeps hisher unspent money as the days prize. The series premiered on August 1. Other appearanceseditBrown served as a mentor on Season 8 of The Next Food Network Star alongside Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis. During season 8, each mentor selected and mentored a team of five finalists. Team Altons finalist, Justin Warner, was the season 8 winner however, Brown will not be producing Warners show. He returned, along with Flay and De Laurentiis, as a mentor and judge for season 9. Due to a format change, season 9 did not feature teams. In 2. 01. 0, 2. 01. Brown hosted Thanksgiving Live The Food Network, a show featuring other Food Network personalities preparing various Thanksgiving dishes and answering viewers questions. On November 1. 1, 2. Brown was the guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies as part of their guest programmer month. The films he selected were Whats Up, Tiger Lily, Closely Watched Trains, Point Blank, and Blowup. In 2. 00. 8 he guest starred on Nickelodeons TV series Sponge. Bob Square. Pants in the shows sixth season episode, House Fancy, where he voiced the host of a home show, Nicholas Withers. Brown also appeared in the Kung Fu Panda DVD feature Mr. Pings Noodle House. Brown appeared on the November 1. Myth. Busters, assisting in the testing of two myths involving pressure cooked popcorn and using a cars hot engine compartment to cook a holiday meal. A third segment testing a dishwasher to cook lasagna was posted on the shows website. In 2. 01. 3, Browns voice and likeness appeared in Cooking with Archer, an animated extra on the DVD release of season 3 of the show Archer. Brown appeared on the Travel Channel show The Layover with Anthony Bourdain which focused on the city of Atlanta in 2. In the episode Bourdain takes Brown to the Clermont Lounge. Brown guest starred as the Guest Bailiff and Expert Witness in John Hodgmans comedycourt show podcast. Judge John Hodgman. In October 2. 01. Alton launched Alton Brown Live The Edible Inevitable Tour, his first national tour visiting 4. March 2. 01. 4. The show includes stand up comedy, talk show antics, a multimedia lecture, live music and extreme food experimentation 1. After a hiatus of several months while Brown worked on his Food Network shows, the tour resumed in October 2. April 4, 2. 01. 5, in Houston, Texas, after visiting more than 6. Alton makes an appearance as himself in the October 4, 2. The Simpsons, Cue Detective, as the judge of a cooking competition the Simpsons enter. In 2. 01. 5, Brown voiced a character in the show Miles from Tomorrowland. In the World of Warcraft Expansion Warlords of Draenor, there is a NPC character named Elton Black in the Alliance city of Stormshield, inside Heros Rest Inn, that is named after him. CommercialseditBrown has done commercial work for General Electric GE products,2. GE refrigerators, washers and dryers, water purifiers, Trivection ovens, and dishwashers. The infomercials are produced in the Good Eats style, employing the use of unusual camera angles, informational text, props, visual aids, scientific explanations, and the same method of delivery. These infomercials are distributed to wholesale distributors of appliancesplumbing devices. Brown has also aided GE in developing a new type of oven. He was initially called by GE to help their engineers learn more about the effects of heat on food 2. GEs Trivection oven. Brown has also done promotion for Dannonyogurt, Welchs, Shunknives, and for Heifer International. In 2. 01. 0, he endorsed salt use in a campaign for Cargill. In 2. 01. 2, Brown gained popularity by pioneering the use of humorous Analog Tweets, wherein he posts pictures of hand drawn Twitter responses on Post it notes which he has stuck to his computer monitor. The Alton BrowncasteditOn June 2.