TWO TIME EMMY AWARD-WINNING RACHAEL RAY THROWS A BLOCK PARTY IN CHICAGO TO KICK OFF SEASON FOUR

New York, NY, September 10, 2009 - RACHAEL RAY, which recently won the Emmy� for Outstanding Talk Show for a second year in a row, returns for its fourth season on Monday, September 14th with "Rachael's Big Block Party," a neighborhood street fair in front of Wrigley Field in Chicago. Also during premiere week, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, 50 Cent and Nick Lachey will stop by for the first time.

RACHAEL RAY's season four premiere episode features a family-friendly block party filled with local food, games, Chicago sports teams, cooking demonstrations, celebrities and live music. "Rachael's Big Block Party" includes celebrity guests Jenny McCarthy, Kool & The Gang and Jillian Michaels, along with some of the country's top chefs Rocco DiSpirito, Art Smith and Rick Bayless.

Season four of RACHAEL RAY will continue to focus on ways to make ordinary life extraordinary for viewers by highlighting how to live a rich life on a tight budget and ways families can make easy, healthy meals for less. Rachael will also be inviting more celebrity guests to pull up a chair to her kitchen table. Confirmed guests include: Katie Couric, 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Harry Connick, Jr., Hilary Swank, LeBron James and many more.

RACHAEL RAY, the 2008 and 2009 Emmy� Award-winning Outstanding Talk Show, is distributed and produced by CBS Television Distribution in association with Harpo Productions, Scripps Networks and Watch Entertainment. Janet Annino is executive producer. Joseph Freed and Shane Farley are co-executive producers. CBS Television Distribution is a unit of CBS Corp.