AMY SCHUMER LEARNS TO COOK
Food Network, 10:03 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Like many of us, Amy Schumer is stuck at home, waiting out the initial wave of this deadly pandemic. And like many of you, she’s sequestered in her house with her spouse. But her husband, Chris Fischer, happens to be a James Beard Award-winning chef. And with so much time on their hands, and so much culinary talent in his, Schumer cooked up the idea for a TV show emanating straight from her Martha’s Vineyard home, and sold it to The Food Network. Its simple, explanatory title: Amy Schumer Learns to Cook. The production values are deliberately low-key, and they’re dressed as though the camera turned on as an unscheduled surprise (you and I are dressed more crisply right now; well, you are). The approach is as basic as Julia Child’s The French Chef, so don’t expect many edits or camera angles. And even with Fischer’s expertise, don’t necessarily expect shows to be devoted to such topics as Julia Child presented in the 1960s, devoted to “Coquilles St. Jacques” or “Rognons Sautés and Flambés.” Tonight’s premiere edition, for example, looks at breakfast foods and late-night snacks.