Tonight is the season premiere, which -- though still very exciting! -- means we'll have to wait about three weeks until the idiots clear out and the competition really begins. I don't know why they don't just start with fewer chefs and incorporate non-elimination weeks to balance out the episode order, sparing us some chefs who don't belong on the show in the first place, but hey, I'm no TV exec. I can tell you that, just judging from the cast's bios, I want Arnold Myint to win. I don't know if he can cook and I don't care if he can cook, I just know he's a southern drag queen who owns a restaurant called House of Yum and that I love him. See, this is why they don't allow the viewers to vote.

Top Chef premieres on Bravo tonight at 9 PM (new time! Watch out!) opposite America's Got Talent, the second half of So You Think You Can Dance and Green's gay farmer show The Fabulous Beekman Boys (secretly excited? Secretly excited).