ABC Renews 'Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'

9/3/2010
Stephanie Allerdice
The Revolution takes on Los Angeles

ABC announced via press release on September 2 that is has renewed the Emmy Award-winning reality show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution for a second season.

The new season, which will premiere later this fall, will target America’s second largest city, Los Angeles. The season will be six episodes long.

Oliver is known for his passionate attack on problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. In the first season of the show, Oliver went to Huntington, West Virginia, America’s most obese city in 2008. Oliver helped revolutionize the school system’s lunch program so it would start serving fresh, healthy meals made on the premises.

The series, which won the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program, is based on Oliver’s U.K. series, Jamie’s Ministry of Food. In its first season, Food Revolution was ranked number one among key adult demographics for its Friday night time slot.

Oliver is also known for the ten cookbooks he has published, including The Naked Chef, Cook with Jamie and, Jamie’s Food Revolution, a New York-Times Best Seller.

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