“Tournament of Champions” (Food Network — season premiere, March 7)

Guy Fieri returns as host for a new season of this bracket-style culinary competition series wherein 16 of the best chefs from the East and West Coasts go head-to-head in sudden death cooking battles. Chefs representing the East Coast include Madison Cowan, Maneet Chauhan, Darnell Ferguson, Amanda Freitag and Marc Murphy; West Coast chefs include Cat Cora, Antonia Lofaso, Brian Malarkey, Jet Tila and last year’s winner, Brooke Williamson. The rotating panel of judges includes Giada De Laurentiis, Scott Conant, Rocco DiSpirito, Marcus Samuelsson and Ming Tsai.