Bravo's just announced the cast for Top Chef Masters which appears to be Top Chef crossed with Next Iron Chef. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I was suprised, a bit, at how many of the chefs have previously been on ICA, since that's a different network. Just quick off the top of my head: Lo, Bayliss, Smith, Dufresne, Falkner, Lefebvre, Yamaguchi, and Besh, who of course has been on ICA and was on Next Iron Chef as well. I guess it makes sense that there's a group of celeb chefs who are interested in using TV appearances to advance their brand and who have a track record of being good on TV so Bravo would want to cast them. I'll definitely be watching. I might blog this show instead of this year's season of Next Food Network Star.