on Bravo) brings back 18 former contestants, at least two from each of the previous seasons. The show”s eighth season, technically titled “Top Chef: All-Stars” (tomorrow at 10 p.m. Then the “Top Chef” producers did a very clever thing and called a play that all aging reality franchises eventually try: they did an all-star season. I sampled spin-off “Top Chef Masters” briefly, but didn”t expect to be back with the franchise full-time. I hadn”t grown frustrated with the types of contestants or outcomes, the way I had with, say, “Survivor” – I just felt like I”d seen enough iterations of it and wanted to move on to something else. (Non-fashion division, anyway the subject matter of sister show “Project Runway” was always too big a barrier for entry.) But after a few seasons of it, the show fell off my radar, at a time when I was purging my viewing schedule of most unscripted shows in an attempt to make things more manageable. I did something the other day that I haven”t done in what feels like a very long period of time: I watched an episode of “Top Chef.”įor a while, I considered the Bravo cooking competition show the class of reality TV.

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