You’re a single guy and you’ve just met a great girl. So far, so good.
You take her out a few times… For drinks, dinner, a movie… Things are going really well and now you’d like to “seal the deal”, so you invite her over to your place for a romantic dinner. But the problem is, you can’t cook to save your life. And you may not be a genius, but you’re smart enough to know that pouring a can of tomato sauce over some pasta isn’t going to impress the pants (or dress) off anyone.
Good news.
“Cooking To Get Lucky” is a half hour cooking show that will serve as your step by step guide through the entire romantic evening…for everything but the sex. Planning a menu, shopping, cooking, setting the table, serving the meal, flowers, candles, and even a few extra touches to make your date feel so special, she’ll sneak off to text her friends that you’re awesome and they shouldn’t wait up.
And the best part is, it’s totally easy. Each of the dinner plans is specially designed to be incredibly fast and easy to prepare, while looking unbelievably impressive.
Hosting is Eden Riegel, Emmy Award winning actress from “All My Children” and “American Pie” and Bob Guiney from “The Bachelor”. In each episode, they’ll check out a video plea from a desperate viewer explaining the desperation of his situation. The date’s a vegetarian, or really loves fish, or thinks Greek food is really sexy.
Eden knows what it takes to impress a hot chick, because she is a hot chick. But she’s also an amazing cook. Bob’s bachelor days are legendary (and were broadcast coast to coast). They’ll use their own experiences to figure out the guy’s optimum approach to the perfect night, then Eden will choose the easiest, tastiest, coolest looking recipes she can think of, take Bob to the kitchen and show him (and us) how to make everything - from appetizer to dessert. No fancy ingredients, no weird pots or pans, no directions that require a mastery of a foreign language to understand. And seriously, if Bob can do it ANYONE can.
Introduced to America on ABC's hugely popular hit The Bachelor, America's favorite "Ex-Bachelor" Bob Guiney has been in our living rooms ever since.
Bob is the host of all of ABC's comedic interstitial programming, while maintaining the spot as the primary field correspondent for daytime chatfest, The View. He also serves as co-host of WE's 3 Men & a Chick Flick, as well as co-hosting Bravo's Battle of the Network Stars, ABC Super Bowl coverage and countless specials for E! and TV Guide Channel. Bob has a recurring guest spot on Hollywood Residential on Starz and has hosted weekly makeover series Trick My Trucker on CMT and Date My House on TLC.
While enjoying the opportunities he has had with television, Bob still plays with his longtime band Fat Amy, and also performs with his celebrity Band, "Band from TV, which includes of Heroes' Greg Grunberg, Desperate Housewives' James Denton, Hugh Laurie of House, and Bonnie Somerville of Cashmere Mafia. Proceeds from the bad go to the members’ respective charities. In addition, they also contributed two tracks for the "House, MD: Season 3" Soundtrack.
Bob and his wife of 3 years, actress Rebecca Budig (All My Children, Out of Practice), currently split time together between New York and Los Angeles.
In 2005, Eden Riegel received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work as Susan Lucci’s daughter, Bianca Montgomery on ABC’s All My Children. She became a part of television history when she participated in Daytime's first lesbian kiss and her sensitive portrayal of a gay heroine won AMC four consecutive GLAAD Awards for Outstanding Daytime Drama. Her work also garnered Eden two Soap Opera Digest Awards, four Emmy Nominations, and GLAAD’S first ever “Out Image Of The Year” Award. Other television appearances include Law and Order, American Dreams, and New York Undercover. She has a memorable role in Universal’s American Pie.
Eden made her Broadway debut at age seven as Young Cosette in Les Misérables. Other theater credits include Broadway’s Will Rogers Follies, Nine Armenians at the Manhattan Theater Club, the world premiere of Arthur Laurents’ My Good Name at the Bay Street Theater and the title roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Reagle Players and opposite Meredith Baxter and Jo Beth Williams in Agnes of God at Pasadena’s Boston Court Theater. Eden attended Harvard University as an undergraduate concentrating in Social Studies.
Recently, Eden completed production on the new Jack Black comedy, Year One, directed by Harold Ramis, produced by Judd Apatow and starring alongside Michael Cera and Paul Rudd.
