L.A.'s Celebrity Chefs Get Their Own TV Show

After Hours with Daniel, the restaurant-centric show hosted by Chef/restauranteur Daniel Boulud, is heading to Los Angeles.

Running on the HD channel MOJO (available locally on Time Warner Cable), the show follows Boulud -- whose restaurants include Daniel, Café Boulud, DB Bistro Moderne and Daniel Boulud Brasserie -- as he shares a late-night dining table with top chefs and celebs.

The skinny, from a network press release:

Meals prepared don’t appear on any menu and experiments abound. Each show begins with Daniel visiting the chosen restaurant and “conspiring” with the head chef for the surprise meal to come. Extremely spirited, sometimes competitive, and often funny, After Hours with Daniel provides viewers with a rare, hi-def look into the world of top chefs that is usually hidden behind locked restaurant doors.

The second season, set to start airing on MOJO in October, is currently taping here in L.A. at local restaurants, and with L.A. chefs. Here's the episodic breakdown:

EPISODE 1 (Taped at Pizzeria Mozza): Guests include Mozza's Nancy Silverton and Mozza investor Phil Rosenthal ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), as well as Chef Alain Giraud; Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani (Terra); and Josh Charles (Actor)

EPISODE 2 (Joachim Splichal's home): Splichal, Walter Manzke (Bastide); Josiah Citrin (Melisse); Traci des Jardin (Jardiniere); Robert Wuhl (Actor); Wendi McLendon-Covey (Actor); Jim Clendenen (Wine Maker)

EPISODE 3 (Hatfield's): Karen and Quinn Hatfield; Ludovic Lefebvre (Chef); Jason Travi (Fraiche); David Dean Bottrell (Actor); Jim Lampley (TV Sports Commentator); Russ Parsons (LA Times)

EPISODE 4 (Father's Office); Sang Yoon (Father's Office); Michael McCarty (Michael’s); Sal Marino (Il Grano); Sherry Yard (Pastry Chef-Spago); Peter Greenberg (Travel Editor); Ron Guttman (Actor); Gabrielle Reece (Former Model)

EPISODE 5 (Sona): David Myers (Sona); Eric Greenspan (The Foundry); Nicolas Peter (Little Door); Jimmy Boyce (Chef); Eva LaRue ("CSI: Miami"); Heather John (Bon Appetit)

EPISODE 6 (Ford's Filling Station): Benjamin Ford; Suzanne Goin (AOC); David Lentz (Hungry Cat); Mary Sue Miliken (Two Hot Tamales); Susan Feniger (Two Hot Tamales); Keith David (Actor); Stephen Gyllenhaal (Writer/Director)

EPISODE 7 (Providence): Michael Cimarusti (Providence); David Lefevre (Water Grill); Suzanne Tracht (Jar); Alain Giruad (Chef); Melora Hardin ("The Office")

EPISODE 8 (Grace): Neal Fraser (Grace); Mike Wilson (Wilson Foodbar); Warren Schwartz (Whist); Fred Eric (Fred 62); Harry Shearer (Actor); Connie Britton (Actor)

EPISODE 9 (Simon/LA): Kerry Simon; Kris Morningstar (Blue Velvet); Josie Le Balch (Josie); Brandon Boudet (Dominic’s); Willie Garson ("Sex and the City"); Joel Stein (Lucky journo); Tyler Evans (Motocross)

EPISODE 10 (Campanile): Mark Peel (Campanile); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino); Kazuto Matsuzaka (Beacon); Celestino Drago (Drago); Ron Rifkin (Actor); Chris Keyser (Writer); Ricky Jay (Magician)

Nice to see a ton of attention on our city's restaurants, especially after Mario Batali's Los Angeles diss.