Weeks after it appeared he would be leaving the Food Network after 27 years, Bobby Flay has reached a three-year, exclusive deal with the Discovery outlet. The pact was confirmed by Courtney White,…
and streaming food content for Discovery. The new agreement includes development of new content for Food Network as well as for elsewhere within the Discovery portfolio. Like its media peers, Discovery is pushing into streaming, with food programming aimed at niche service Food Network Kitchen as well as the broad-audience Discovery+.
Flay is the chef with the longest run of new episodes or series in premieres on Food Network. Having opened the Mesa Grill in New York City in 1991, he first appeared on the network in 1994. By 1996, he was co-hosting his own series,