ADDITIONAL NOTES: completed airing its first season on 11/28/12; has yet to be renewed for a second season
DESCRIPTION: (from Bravo's press release, October 2012) Viewers will get a helping of food with a side of funny Wednesday nights when "Life After Top Chef" docks into its new timeslot airing Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series "Top Chef: Seattle" premieres Wednesday, November 7 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Season ten features 21 cheftestants competing for the "Top Chef" crown. Famed chef and restaurant mogul Wolfgang Puck joins as a judge this season, alongside Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Hugh Acheson and Emeril Lagasse with host Padma Lakshmi.