May on WNED Create | Preview
Tune in this May for the season premieres of Craft in America, Joanne Weir's Plates and Places, My World Too, Paint This With Jerry Yarnell, Seeing the USA, Steven Raichlen's Project Fire and more!
Enjoy a round-the-clock broadcast of the most popular lifestyle and how-to programming seen on public television.
WHERE TO WATCH CREATE
Broadcast Channel -WNED-HD2 over-the-air 17.2
Time-Warner/Spectrum
Erie – 21, 1275
Niagara - 1275
Genesee, Wyoming, Monroe, Livingston,
Orleans - 1277
Dunkirk & Silver Creek – 19, 1275
Fredonia - 17, 1275
Verizon FiOS - 472
Comcast Cable (Northwest PA) – 243
Weekly Showcases
Settle in each weekend to watch your favorite shows in one binge-worthy format. Weekend marathons are now five-hour stacks each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, known as the WNED Create Weekly Showcase. Each Showcase is centered around a theme — a holiday, a country, a particular food, even a single show. All the excitement of a marathon without leaving your couch!
The Showcases repeat as double-stacked strips Sunday-Thursday featuring thematic, timely shows.
The WNED Create Weekly Showcase airs on Friday from 9pm- 2am, with encores on Saturday from 10am - 3pm and Sunday from 12pm - 5pm.
The week of May 7
Mama Lidia
Master the art of Italian cooking this Mother's Day weekend when Create airs a special selection of episodes from Lidia's Kitchen. Join Lidia Bastianich as she puts on a culinary master class while creating delicious Italian meals for the entire family.
The week of May 14
Somewhere South
Join award-winning chef Vivian Howard as she digs deeper into the lesser-known roots of Southern food, cooking and living. Each episode explores the ways people of different backgrounds interpret the same dish — from dumplings to hand pies to barbecue.
The week of May 21
Places to Love
Traveler Samantha Brown hits the road to experience the passion of a destination through food and drink, arts and culture. Her stops include: Quebec City, Sanibel Island, Charleston, Phoenix, Miami and Santa Fe, with special episodes devoted to her favorite culinary experiences and her tips on making travel count.
The week of May 28
Red, White and BBQ
Create ushers in the unofficial start of summer with mouthwatering barbecue dishes from Steven Raichlen's Project Fire. The grilling guru also share techniques that elevate the backyard barbecue experience — from ember-roasting and salt-slab grilling to fire-heated iron and high-tech rotisseries.
The week of Fri, Apr. 30th to Thu, May. 6th
Pati’s Cinco De Mayo Fiesta
We’re throwing a Pati party and you’re invited! In back-to-back episodes, follow chef Pati Jinich on her culinary adventures through her native Mexico, where she meets the chefs, home cooks, artisans and families behind some of the country's most iconic dishes.
WNED Create Program Previews
This month, Create will air 90 cooking, travel, home improvement, gardening, painting and crafting series. Here's a sampling!
WNED Create TV
Pati's Mexican Table season eight | preview
Part travelogue, part cooking show, PATI'S MEXICAN TABLE follows host Pati Jinich as she explores the food, culture and history of Mexico and shares simple and mouth-watering recipes for home cooks. In season 8, in the state of Sinaloa on Mexico’s west coast,
The 2020 Create Crafts Challenge
Congratulations to Grand Prize Winner, Martin Amado, from Sunrise, Florida and Second Prize Winner Dinah Wulf, from Anaheim, California!
Are you a baron of basketry? A wizard of woodcraft? Maybe even a master of macramé? Whatever your hobby, show it off in the Create Crafts Challenge 2020 where five of Create TV’s talented personalities will judge who will win the chance to produce their own 10-part video series for Create TV!
It’s metal workers vs. knitters, glass blowers against the basket weavers! Turn your love of crafting into a video series!
This year, the Create team changed the challenge event to encompass another of Create TV’s most popular genres: Crafts! The Create Crafts Challenge 2020 received nearly 100 entries from markets representing about 50 local public television stations across the country. Despite the pandemic, these viewers were eager to share their crafts’ skills. Below are the top entries selected by the celebrity Final Judges. Our Grand Prize Winner’s 10-episode web series will launch later this year, followed by the three-episode web series from our Second Prize Winner. Over the coming months we’ll share many of the other top-scoring videos. They represent some truly unique ideas and crafting skills, from making a surfboard in Hawaii to creating pottery in Florida and woodworking in North Carolina to metalworking in Illinois. Thank you to all who entered!
Meet the Winners
Martin Amado | Grand Prize Winner
DIY DESIGN with Martin Amado
Learn how to make a rustic candleholder with materials from a home improvement store. Project produced for Create Crafts Challenge 2020 entry.
Dinah Wulf | Second Prize Winner
DIY Paper Pop Out Box - Dinah from DIY Inspired
How to make a simple Pop Out box out of two pieces of scrapbook paper.
The Create Cooking Challenge 2018
Winners Announced
Have you got what it takes to join WNED Create's distinguished chefs? We asked viewers to send us their best tip, project, or recipe, and enter to win one of 18 prizes, from Create merchandise to their own web series!
Our esteemed final judges for 2018 included: Rick Bayless, host of Mexico ‐ One Plate at a Time; Joanne Weir, from Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places; Kevin Belton, from New Orleans Cooking With Kevin Belton; Ellie Krieger, from Ellie’s Real Good Food; and, Grand Prize winner of the Create Cooking Challenge 2017, Buki Elegbede.
Selected from a nationwide pool of entries by judges who are among public television’s best known chefs, Kiya Schnorr from New York City, claims the Grand Prize, receiving $4,000 and production equipment valued at approximately $1,000 to finance and produce a web series of 10 two-minute videos to appear on CreateTV.com. Second Prize Winner, Kristina Vanni, also from New York City, was awarded $1,000 and production equipment valued at approximately $1,000 to finance and produce a web series of three, two-minute videos for CreateTV.com.
WNED Create viewers submitted some wonderful entries to the Create Cooking Challenge Challenge!
See the culinary talent simmering in Western New York!
Cheater Bolognese
Nancy Gaglione | Williamsville, NY
About:
I am a 70 widow who loves to nourish pals and family. French grandmother who could cook anything. Make something from nothing.
Cooking experience: My whole life
Why entered: Do what I love!
Dion's Shrimp & Grits
Dion Crowder | Buffalo, NY
About:
I love to cook and grill. I'm a very competitive person who just likes to have fun!
Cooking experience: I am a self taught home cook. I've worked in a few restaurants, but 90% of my cooking , I've done on my own.
Why entered: Do what I love!
Ice Cream Hacks with the Roaring Cupcake
Angela Vazquez | Buffalo, NY
About:
A sweets and treats obsessed home cook. I'm happiest when mixing a big bowl of butter and sugar and I ALWAYS have room for dessert!
Cooking experience: I'm a home cook with a culinary background. I worked professionally as a baker and cake decorator but I've loved baking since I was 10.
Why entered: As a lifelong fan of public television, I've always wanted to share what I have learned to others who have the same passion in the kitchen.
Eggs Florentine
Jake Nabasny | Buffalo, NY
About:
I am a translator and PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. I live with my wife, Ashley, and our two cats.
Cooking experience: : I loved egg drop soup so much as a kid, I learned how to make it. Four years ago I became a vegetarian and got creative in the kitchen.
Why entered: : Sharing food is enjoyable, but sharing recipes is empowering. I'd like to share my knowledge with as many people as possible.