MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel NDTV Good Times has announced its latest food show ?Love Bites with Joey?. Hosted by supermodel Joey Matthew, the show presents her in a new avatar, cooking straight from the heart with food?s most important ingredient ? Love.

The show kicks off on 11 June and airs on Monday and Tuesday at 10 pm.

Every episode will see Joey whipping up three signature dishes, as she prepares quick and easy recipes in her quest to find the perfect restaurant menu. The episodes often end with Joey inviting a few close friends over for an intimate meal.

Joey?s food has no nationality; her food draws inspiration from French, European, Middle Eastern and Indian Coastal region. With strong Malyali roots and global influences, Joey?s food is exotic yet simple; she ensures the food is light and healthy without missing out on any flavour.

NDTV Lifestyle CEO Smeeta Chakrabarti said, ?With NDTV Good Times reaching more people than ever before through our innovative and genre defining programming, we are very excited to announce the launch of our latest food show, Love Bites with Joey. The brand new show is a perfect combination of food and indulgence, completely in tune with NDTV Good Times offering. Love Bites with Joey is entertainment at its very best and I?m confident our viewers will appreciate and thoroughly enjoy it."

NDTV Good Times channel director and NDTV Lifestyle creative head Shibani Sharma Khanna said, ?Love Bites with Joey is a warm, intimate show where supermodel Joey Matthews invites you in to her own kitchen. We hope it encourages people to indulge in easy, delicious cooking.

A super model who has ruled the ramp for over a decade, Joey Mathew has travelled the world and dined at some of the finest restaurants across the globe. Born to Malyali parents, raised in Europe & Middle East, her tryst with food began at an early age. Her love for food led her into the kitchen where she developed a passion for cooking honest and wholesome food - straight from the heart.

MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel NDTV Good Times is launching a new season of Highway on My Plate - Addas.

Starting 27 May, the show will air every Sunday at 8 pm.

Anchored by Rocky and Mayur, the season will take viewers down the memory lane, to the centre of every student?s universe - the canteen, their "favourite" Adda. The duo will uncover the ?best addas? across the country and the food, ingredients and traditions that make them special, in their signature style.

Rocky and Mayur said, "In this season we have been able to see India?s finest schools and colleges through the eyes of their students, in a way no one has ever brought to you before,and as we cover thirteen of these amazing addas, one thing is for sure the food is worth every penny."

NEW DELHI: NDTV Good Times has started season 2 of the makeover show, Band Baajaa Bride.

The show will be called ?Band Baajaa Bride with Sabyasachi? and will have Ambika Anand and Bharat Arora who will be joined by ace designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee. The 13 episode series starts at 9.30 pm features. 13 lucky brides get a head to toe makeover, thanks to a team of experts and the mentorship ofdesigner Sabyasachi Mukherjee.

Sabyasachi says, ?I had a great time working with NDTV Good Times and the complete team of Band Baajaa Bride. Every girl, dreams of looking like a princess on her wedding and we, the team of Band Baajaa Bride, will make sure that she looks her absolute best. We will ensure that every bride on the show feels extraordinary with the spectacular makeover, designer clothes and jewelery she receives. She will cherish her wedding day for a lifetime!?

The series has flaw corrections, dental surgeries, hairstyles to change the persona, diet plans peppered with the tussle between mother and daughter on the best colour for her daughter?s Lehenga. The bride?s quest for her mother in law?s approval on her jewelery and the masala of marriages in India.

NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan have been traditional rivals, whether it was in hockey, cricket, or in the battlefield. And yet, the people of these two countries are closest to each other in their cultural and culinary practices.

Taking advantage of this, NDTV Good Times is launching a competition among the chefs of the two countries in a new series called ?Foodistan? from 23 January. The show will air every Monday to Wednesday from 9.30 pm.

This Indo-Pak battle for culinary supremacy will feature 15 professional chefs in 26 episodes, and their food preparations will be judged by a three-member jury comprising HT Media editorial director Vir Sanghvi; celebrity British chef Merrilees Parker, and Sonya Jehanis who is a Bollywood actress of Pakistan and French descent.

All the chefs - eight from India and seven from Pakistan - are already known for their work in various hotels in India and Pakistan. The series will be presented by the Aly Khan with Ira Dubey.

Sanghvi said this was the first reality show of its kind on any English television channel, and the most expensive show on NDTV Good Times.

He admitted that getting visas for the chefs from Pakistan had been a problem and had taken longer than expected.

Contrary to common perception, Pakistani food was not necessarily like Indian food, he said.

NDTV Lifestyle CEO Smeeta Chakrabarti told indiantelevision.com on the sidelines of the show launch announcement that the channel had partnered with Geo Channel of Pakistan to get some shots from that country. The programme is in English and a smattering of Hindi and Urdu.