The Tiny Chef Is Cooking Up a New Show

Nickelodeon might have canceled its stop-motion animated The Tiny Chef Show in 2015, however Chef hasn’t hung up his small knives. To a raucous crowd at New York Comic Con, his developers revealed on Friday that they were formulating something brand-new with the amusing felt gourmand, revealing teaser video footage for a stop-motion movie that “does not exist yet, “in the words of co-creator Rachel Larsen. She and production designer Jason Kolowski and the voice of Chef himself, Matt Hutchinson, then revealed video of Chef subjugating a dirty western town– with clips of him dressed up in a cowboy attire, stuck in prison, and looking into the location where the group shot all of these clips, Pioneertown, California.

Chef was chosen the mayor of Pioneertown about 6 months earlier, and his period as mayor motivated the brand-new program, Larsen stated. It’s still early in its advancement, however the loose concept is that Chef looks for to put the little town, which was as soon as routinely utilized to shoot Hollywood westerns, back on the map.

It’s still being scripted, however Larsen explained it as a “pilot unique for his next cooking program, so we can get him into long-form material.”

Despite not being on Nickelodeon or a significant streaming service, the Tiny Chef brand name has actually survived on through in collaboration handle the similarity Ikea and Priceline and assistance from its fan club and customers. Because the cancellation, the group has actually attempted to “welcome the flexibility it offered us,” Larsen stated. “It was a little paradoxical: We got canceled, then went to the Emmys 3 months later on and won,” stated Larsen, who acknowledged that making Chef’s material wasn’t as simple now that they have no business support. “Going independent, whatever’s in our hands.”