6 Shows Like Is It Cake? to Watch if You Like Is It Cake?


Chef and owner of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland, Duff Goldman, and his crew of decorators attempt to create amazing and awe-inspiring cakes for their clients each week.
Chef and owner of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland, Duff Goldman, and his crew of decorators attempt to create amazing and awe-inspiring cakes for their clients each week.
Have some cake and watch it, too

Mark your calendars, Ace of Cakes fans, because there are only five episodes left before the February 20 series finale. The Charm City Cakes head honcho, Chef Duff Goldman, gives a taste of what to expect.

Food Network reality series Ace of Cakes will air its final season next year, the cable channel announced Friday. "All good things must come to an end, and the final season of Ace of Cakes will begin on-air in January," Food Network General Manger Bob Tuschman said in a statement. The upcoming season will be the show's tenth and will reportedly feature the construction of a large-scale Delorean time machine cake created especially for a Back to the Future 25th anniversary event.

Real Housewives of D.C.9/8c Bravo Bravo gives a big vote to Washington, D.C. The current season of Top Chef is based in the nation's capital, and now this newest entry in the soapy "Housewives" franchise is set there as well. Here, the manicured realms of five D.C. women — Stacie Scott Turner, Michaele Salahi, Catherine Ommanney, Lynda Erkiletian and Mary Schmidt Amons — are charted in reality fashion. In tonight's premiere, Michaele (notorious as a crasher of a 2009 White House state dinner) throws a polo event, but modeling-agency proprietress Lynda snubs her. Meanwhile, Mary gets ready for her birthday bash, and Stacie presides over a dinner party.Read on for previews of So You Think You Can Dance, Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape, The Night Life, Bethenny Getting Married?, Stan Lee's Superhumans and Ace of Cakes.

Rookie Blue9 pm/ET ABC While this summer hit is already slated for a second season, its rookies — in their rookie season — have been making their share of mistakes on the job. Tonight, squad members are tested by a home invasion in a posh neighborhood, and officers reveal quite a bit about their off-duty lives. And once it seems like the smoke has cleared, Traci leaves to take care of a personal matter, and Andy winds up facing an armed perpetrator by herself. Let's hope she remembered to load her gun this time. — Fred Mitchell Read on for previews of Burn Notice, So You Think You Can Dance, Boston Med, Bethenny Getting Married? and more!

Ace of Cakes10/9c Food Network Meat Cat and his Cheesy Blasters serve as inspiration for Duff and the Charm City Cakes crew when Tina Fey asks them to create a special confection that will be featured in an upcoming episode of 30 Rock. And as a special surprise to the cast and crew of the Emmy-nominated comedy, Fey orders a second cake that will be served at their season-finale celebration.Read on for previews of the British Open, Big Brother 12, Mary Knows Best, Green Room with Paul Provenza, Glee and The Mentalist.

Ace of Cakes10/9c Food Network Season 9 opens with the 100th episode of the series, an hour-long installment featuring a retrospective with the Charm City Cakes staff looking back at the most memorable moments in the show's history, from the most over-the-top confections to the biggest "caketastrophes." It's definitely been a roller-coaster ride for the crew, so it's fitting that this week also finds them constructing a complex roller-coaster cake that proves to be quite a challenge.Read on for previews of the PGA tour, Bethenny Getting Married, So You Think You Can Dance, Soundstage and Raising Sextuplets.

The Office9/8c NBC A strong Season 6 has been teeming with tricks and treats — Jim and Pam's memorable Niagara Falls wedding and Michael's controversial new love among them. There's more scare fare in tonight's Halloween-themed affair when the branch organizes a haunted house for community children. Meanwhile, Michael is spooked when he plunges (literally) into a big business meeting by falling into a koi pond. And Pam and Andy team up, utilizing cold-calling methods to pull in more business.Read on for previews of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mentalist, The League, CSI and Ace of Cakes.

Vampire Diaries8/7c CW Kevin Williamson, the creator of Dawson's Creek and the Scream fright flicks, combines two of his favorite things — teens and horror — in his promising adaptation of the pre-Twilight young-adult book series that nevertheless owes its TV existence to Twilight's mega-success. In tonight's predictable but polished opener, Stefan (Paul Wesley), a centuries-old vampire who doesn't look a day over 19 and refuses to drink human blood, returns to his Virginia hometown to pursue a high-school student (Nina Dobrev) who reminds him of a long-lost love. Of course, Stefan's evil brother (Ian Somerhalder) shows up to complicate things. Read on for previews of NFL Opening Kickoff 2009, Big Brother 11, Supernatural, Project Runway and Ace of Cakes.

Project Runway10/9c LifetimeThe catwalks, catfights and catcalls finally return when the wardrobe-themed reality hit launches its sixth season. The off-season wasn't seamless, however: The show jumped networks and landed on Lifetime after a lengthy and public legal row. All that aside, it's now time for fashion fun with a full night of Runway programming. (Project Runway: All-Star Challenge airs at 8/7c; Models of the Runway airs at 11/10c.) Los Angeles is the new setting for Season 6 when 16 fresh clothiers compete in the usual fierce fashion-themed heats, designing their ware at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Series staples Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn return, as do judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia.Read on for previews of Ace of Cakes, Models of the Runway, SportsCenter Fantasy Draft Special and Grey's Anatomy.

iCarly8 pm/ET NickelodeonIt's hard to deny the attraction of so-called bad boys, and Carly finds herself succumbing to this temptation when she starts going out with a guy who has a bad reputation. Spencer panics when he finds out about it, but then Carly uncovers a secret that makes her rethink the accuracy of her new beau's bad-boy appeal. Meanwhile, Sam has the desire to share her favorite gross-out videos with the world, so she hires Freddie to set up a Web site that will allow her to do this. Read on for previews of SNL, JONAS, Ace of Cakes, Groomer Has It and White House Correspondents' Dinner.
