“Good Eats” on Food Network & Cooking Channel

250 episodes of Peabody award winning creativity, learning and silliness.

Marion Laney started as Lighting Director for the original pilot episodes and moved up to be Director of Photography starting with season 5 of the 14 season #2 rated series on the Food Network.

Marion also was onset AD and DIT throughout the series.  As part of the GE mantra of “multitasking” he managed all of the camera equipment and coordinated with both the series gaffer and key grip to ensure proper support to dramatically light all the sets and environments “Good Eats” pioneered.

“Good Eats” producer, Dana Popoff and Marion traveled to NYC to accept the prestigious Peabody Award on Alton’s behalf. As of that date, only one other cooking show had ever been so honored, “Julia Child’s Kitchen”.

A little known fact, starting with season 5 the main kitchen set was Marion’s personal home which was later replicated as a studio set and used until the final episode.

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Alton Brown knows his foodstuffs, but so what? Dozens of tele-victual specialists know how to make a perfect bearnaise or tell if a cantaloupe is ripe. What sets Brown and his Good Eats gang apart is how much they know and include in their half hours about history, anthropology, math, chemistry, physics and popular culture. In an installment of Good Eats, a viewer is almost as likely to hear or see a reference to Batman or Werner Von Braun as balsamic vinegars. Whether Brown is advising Okra`s agent, Syd, on how to make his slimy client more popular, demonstrating how not to deep-fry a turkey, or describing ancient popcorn-popping methods, his show is a feast of puns, goofy props and good advice. For being omnivorously educational and great cheesy fun, Good Eats receives a Peabody.

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