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The Cooking Channel has announced a 9:30 p.m. June 10 premiere for “The Freshman Class,” a new series that follows four freshmen through their studies at Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge. Production has concluded on an eight-episode season that tracks the would-be chefs from their first day of school to first-semester final exams. “The series chronicles the unique challenges each student faces with their varying backgrounds as they pursue their dream of becoming a professional chef,” said the network in a news release. “Culinary school is difficult and offers no guarantees, and these students all desperately want to do well at the institute to better their lives.”