TLC International to Air New Culinary Makeover Show

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International has started production on Mission Menu, a restaurant makeover program that will premiere on TLC International in 2012.

The 12×30-minute series is a co-production with nuvoTV, which will rebrand from Sí TV next month. Mission Menu follows three international chefs as they overhaul existing restaurants. The network will give the show its exclusive U.S. premiere in October. The group will work with the frustrated restaurateurs who are in need of spicing up their menus, and will also help launch new restaurants.

“Mission Menu will whet viewers’ appetites for high-quality lifestyle programming and have them craving for more,” said Luis Silberwasser, the executive VP and chief content officer at Discovery Networks International. “This new series allows gastronomic experts to take their culinary skills to the next level as they identify big bold flavors to help reinvent big bold restaurants.”

"Discovery Networks International is the ideal partner to create this high quality, tremendously entertaining series," added Maria Perez-Brown, nuvoTV’s senior VP of programming. "Mission Menu is transformational for these struggling restaurants, since the new menus will help them increase their chances to prosper in today’s difficult economic times."