Royal Academy Films is proud to announce that popular food personality Paula Deen will be joining the programming lineup at RFD-TV beginning Jan. 2, 2018, at 7 p.m. EST.

RFD-TV is the flagship network for Rural Media Group. Launched in December of 2000,RFD-TV is the nation's first 24-hour television network featuring programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and rural lifestyles, along with traditional country music and entertainment.RFD-TV produces six hours of live news each weekday in support of rural America and is a leading independent cable channel available in more than 50 million homes on DISH Network, DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW, AT&T U-Verse, Charter Spectrum, Cox, Comcast, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and many other rural cable systems. In addition, RFD-TV can be streamed online via The Country Club at rfdcc.com, Roku and Sling TV's Heartland Extra package.     

For more information, please visit RFDTV.com.

"Positively Paula" is a nationally syndicated television show that is available in over 180 million homes. This lifestyle/food show invites you to share a moment with a friend. This is the Paula Deen you know and love. This is her kitchen, her home, her family, her friends, sharing food, recipes, stories, memories, and her heart. It's what brings us all together, connects us, teaches us and, most of all, it inspires us.

Paula Deen: "I am so excited to invite my friends from around the country into my home kitchen each week. We are going to have an incredible time cooking up a storm and sharing the most special memories."

Full List of Episodes: http://www.positivelypaula.tv/episode-menu

Season two opens with an inspirational story:

Born and raised in Waller, Texas, Jenna Kinard grew up surrounded by the love of a large family and close friends. However, despite her surroundings, she developed self-image issues at a very early age. Over the years, she became enamored with the beauty circuit where these problems snowballed into a life-threatening eating disorder as she claimed multiple pageant wins and the title of Miss Teen Texas-World.

Rock bottom was met in a doctor's office after a series of tests yielded that Jenna had only a few months to live if her war against herself continued. Through bouts of insomnia while in recovery, Jenna discovered Paula Deen and fell in love with her quirkiness, compassionate heart and passion for food. Striving for that freedom in one's own skin and Paula's same joy of cooking, she began preparing Paula's recipes for her family and allowing herself a little here and there, getting stronger one bite at a time.

Jenna appears in two episodes of "Positively Paula" cooking for and alongside one of her biggest heroes and inspirations. She may have even topped Paula with her triple-decker deep-fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich!