Discovery Channel Supper Club show

Our friend and colleague Kerry Trueman from Eating Liberally and also the TakePart blog, a new(ish) blog by our other friends at Participant Productions (the movie studio that brought us An Inconvenient Truth and Fast Food Nation. The Meatrix movies were included on the DVD version of Fast Food Nation….) – well, Kerry reported today that

“Tom Bergeron, the Emmy award-winning host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, has signed on to host a series for the Discovery Channel’s new all-things-eco-all-the-time channel, Planet Green. The show, called Supper Club, will feature celebrity chefs cooking up eco-friendly feasts for celebrity guests who’ll give us the latest in green gossip and current events as they dine on all sorts of presumably sustainable dishes. Hope they don’t all talk with their mouths full.”

What this says to us is that if the Discovery Channel has a 24/7 eco-lifestyle TV network with a weekly primetime show that revolves around people eating and talking, sustainable food is getting more and more mainstream. Yeah!

The show will begin production next month and should launch in June 2008.