First news from the TEN launch is trickling in….
Big Brother is to be replaced by a 10 week local version of a BBC series, MasterChef Australia.
FremantleMedia will produce the series to air six nights a week.
The show has seen a number of format changes in the UK but essentially involves amateurs cooking including inventing a dish from scratch in 50 minutes, working a lunchtime shift at a busy restaurant, cooking a final meal of two courses, with ingredients of the contestants’ choice in one hour etc. It originally ran from 1990 to 2001 and was revived in 2005 with two judges.
Rush has also been approved for a second series.
Bondi Rescue is back.
Guerrilla Gardeners and Recruits are also announced.
More to come….
We love Masterchef it is a great show. The new gardening show sounds pretty good too.
masterchef australia have just signed a 7 month contract from mid Feb 09 to film their production with Haystar at 13 Doody street ,Alexandria 2015. Should be exciting to have such a major show filmed in a quiet suburb of sydney.!!!!!
I watched Masterchef in the UK religiously and it is much more entertaining than any Big Brother I have viewed. For all of you that are writing the show off before it has even aired, I suggest you watch a few episodes of the UK version. You may be pleasantly surprised at the creativity of budding cooks from around the world. This show will be a success, as it is in the UK and US. I think alot of you will be “Eating Your Words”.
I find it quite disturbing that so many people out there seem to have a concept that cooking shows only appeal to older people…..don’t any of you people eat, if so you must surely enjoy food!… Fast food is crap, restaurants cost 4 times as much compared to if you made it yourself , and most people enjoy cooking. Big Brother may appeal to some (though I have no idea why…..its a bit sad really, they are just a bunch of nearly normal people in a house….what’s the big deal and the only thing that they had to do was not get voted off!) My (albeit heavily laboured) point, is that just because you are going through puberty and think BB is God’s gift to your tiny life……Not all of us are quite like that. Now I don’t know if it will be any good or not, but seriously as long as it doesn’t try to do what Top gear Australia did, it should be fine. I think that the reason people are so jaded about watching these cooking shows is because they dont appeal to the wider community and audience, when did you see someone say, now this is the best ‘spag bol’ recipe ever, or how to make a fantastic hamburger. The reason so many people out there buy fast food and ready made meals is that they dont know to cook or eat properly, or can’t be arsed thinking about it. It takes just as long to make a delicious healthy hamburger as it does to go and buy one from maccas. (didnt they sponsor BB) you see my point. I for one am looking forward to it!!
I have seen Masterchef for myself on Pay TV and I must say that I am looking forward to seeing a local version.
It is quite frankly, Australian Idol meets Ramsay, without the expletives.
The standard of the cooking and the judging is very high, the dishes are thoroughly inspirational. Comparing Masterchef to Ready, steady, cook is like comparing Kofi Annan to a Life coach.
How do you enter this competition
Sign me Up.
Why don’t they stop wasting their money on reality shows are start using it on buying more scripted shows. They make cost more but they’ll be well rewarded if they keep them going.
What am I saying? 10 will never learn.
Channel 10 , think that this new program , will have better ratings for them , that what Big Brother provided.
I dont think so !!!
Goodbye 10-35 year olds for Channel Ten.
you have handed seven and nine what ratings you had left.
Bring Back Big Brother you idiots. It was the best show on TV.
I heard it rated better than anything you have on now.
What a disappointment.
Has anyone ever seen this show??? It’s actually not a bad show, well, the UK one anyway. It’s better than Ready, Steady, Cook. But that’s if you like these types of cooking shows.
But then again, some people want to watch a bunch of idiots doing every day stuff cause they don’t have a life of their own, than to watch a show that is trying to inspire people to cook health, nutrious & delicious meals rather than eat expensive takeaways that make you fat.
I love this show. I think it’s a great addition, better than BB anyway. It’s pretty popular in the UK + on the Lifestyle Food Channel.
Epic failure to the same degree as Jasmin’s Getting Married.
Looking forwards to BB in 2010. The only reason it never worked for Ten was because they let it deteriorate into a bogan show appealing to teenies rather than a ‘human zoo’ type show appealing to adults, as it is in all successful versions around the world. It’s their own fault, not the format’s.
Wow…. i have watched every big brother season and I have zero interest in watching this and I feel a lot of people won’t ive a crap.
Just because BB was a reality show in this timeslot, doesn’t mean it can be filled by any reality show. If you can’t find a good idea, don’t put one on.
If 10 are so confident with this why not start airing it at 7pm from now?? It will disappear in time for the end of the ratings season
wasn’t this show on channel seven in the afternoons recently David? Did ten get the rights or something?
Les, Seinfeld airs on Nine.
still rather have big brother much more better
Masterchef goes large shown recentl on Seven was good entertainment – so much depends on choice of host/s and selection of contestants.
I fear Ten/Freemantle will pick someone in vein of unlikeable Peter Everitt or annoying Jackie O as hosts and get the usual blonde bimbos/surfie type blokes as contestants.
Not really a 7pm strip show though ,might work in right timeslot. .
This is such a rip off of Top Chef. 5 nights a week is total overkill, and is likely to see it more like Biggest Loser
i can already see this show going nowhere for 10
much like other shows.
Especially ‘celebrity’ and ammatuer cooking shows… I think cooking shows should be wholesome, like cook and the chef (what a beauty), or hughsy… Cooking is about the love and passion for cooking, not about big names, big $$, big exposure, or whatever.
Maybe they can cook up another show format
I have to tell you – I am over cooking shows
I spell an *imminent failure*
Unless it has Peter Russell Clark, I’m not watching!
The BBC version is shown on Prime sometimes and I find it very boring.
Not my cup of tea.
Mainly aimed at the older generation IMO.
I suppose they’re trying to gain an older audience…good luck Ten, you’ll need it.
This sounds so boring, the only cooking show I like Huey because of his nice personality.
This could be great !! My wife is a ‘cook’ and like many hubbys I think she could run the pants off Gordon Ramsay and all the rest in their dream world of cooking. She cooks for a family and that’s what they will want to see. She cooks for me and the family, she cooks for the homeless and she does a little catering but at the end of the day what is needed is something that connects to the audience – not boneless stuffed quail on a bed of who knows what. cooked by someone who either swears or has a fig up his arse!!. Love to enter her – bet she will win!!!!
The English version has become this family’s favourite food show, so the success of this will depend on the hosts. The English version’s John Tourode is an ex-pat Aussie, so maybe he could be brought out for the first series.
Complete and utter crap…. this was the great white hope….. more like the giant white elephant ;p
i’m not one to write shows off before i’ve seen them. and out of the credible opinions up there it sounds like it will be good.
but good or not, with ramsay, jamie, and chopping block all pulling shocking numbers lately it will be very hard to motivate people to watch.
A cooking show six nights a week. Makes Will and Grace seem appealing. Just bit the bullet and put Seinfeld, Simpsons or even Get Smart on six nights a week.
Hmmm. Atleast now we know BB is gonna be back in 2010 because this show is gonna be a big flop.
My prediction: Axed before a quarter way through the series!
Good god. Doesnt sound very interesting.. I hope its a good show, I do because they need a new, high rating show. I want BB on again.. but the way it was with Gretel. Never going to happen! All the best to them, hope it works but I doubt it.
The question has to be asked dose anyone have a brain at ten I bet this show will last a grand total of 3 weeks
Is Masterchef like Top Chef on Arena? If so it’ll do well, I hate cooking shows but I don’t mind top chef…
And yes it seems an acknowledgement that Ten need a stable format with older appeal to anchor 7pm.
i’m worried for ten.
this junk doesn’t seem it’ll work.
I disagree
I think its great that TEN are trying something different in the 7pm timeslot. 9 have the sitcoms covered and 7 the soaps
TEN have seen an opportunity to capitalise by offering something more unique to whats currently on offer
IMO much better than Big Brother and Sitcom reruns
you all dont know what you are F!@#$(%# talking about. This is better than that BB tripe.7pm might be a challenge though.
Hmmm… It’s a pity Channel Ten didn’t register http://www.masterchef.com.au, isn’t it? Seems one Michael Wolf has that privilege.
I think Masterchef looks great and it is in a watchable time slot. The english one is buried in the day time on seven.
Agree with Ooh Me Plums! (love the handle name) host is vital to the success I wonder who it will be.
Goos to see Rush has a 2nd season…
I agree with Dee and Dino. Rush is a great addition for another season. Considering it was rating higher than The Strip and up against All Saints and a later timeslot this is great news
Cooking shows don’t interest me in the slightest. I have watched Friends, BB, The Biggest Loser in the 7pm time slot, and was hoping TEN would come up with something interesting and better than Taken Out and Will and Grace. Masterchef is not it Back to ABC news for me.
The UK version on Lifestyle Food isn’t too bad actually. It could work here, as long as the host isn’t a complete tosser.
Dont think I will be watching this. I already watch Chopping Block, and thats is enough cooking for one week.
This is something of a surprise. As others have indicated, this type of show will certainly skew to a slightly older audience than normal for the timeslot and will also likely have a higher proportion of female than male viewers.
It will be interesting to see if Ten hire contestents only in the younger age range to make it attractive to that audience or if they go with a diverse range of people.
The critical issue will of course be hosting. They will need a host or hosts with a lot of charisma and fire to pull this together and will also need hosts who really know their stuff when it comes to the culinary world.
It may be worth a watch, but I do fear that the audience has had its fill of cooking shows.
Seven previously aired Master Chef Goes Large (Master Chef’s current incarnation) in the 3PM timeslot, where it finished up just two weeks ago.
Assuming Ten will uses this current format, which is a tournament style cooking competition, it could probably work quite well.
All I can say is that I’m stoked that Rush has picked up a second season. Everyone should get behind this fantastic homegrown show!! Replays of the aired episodes can be found on the ten website.
A cooking show?! wow, ten really has lost it. a cooking show 6 nites a week…. plz tell me this is a mistake and this is airing on Ten HD….
Didn’t Ten do a 7pm Ready Steady Cook with celebrities that really bombed? I think it was just full of big brother drop outs…
Though I didn’t mind Master Chef when 7 were showing it in the afternoons… needs a bit more pizazz… but could work.
Most importantly is who will be judges – that will make or break the show
Why not just move Hueys Cooking Adventures or Ready Steady Cook to 7:00pm!
I think it will rate. Top Chef and this format are well established. You just need some interesting judges and contestants.
might work if people want to cook dinner at the same time as watching it but it doesn’t sound like there will be any letting you know in advance what they are doing tomorrow so people wouldn’t be able to get the ingredients in time, maybe if they record it. but yes 5 nights a week does seem pretty extreme and personally it doesn’t interest me.
Masterchef sounds like good news – for my 58 year old Mum! She loves the UK version, so will no doubt like this news! But I tend to agree with CJM on this one – you never know what could happen; it could be a surprise success. I think it would have a similar audience to Biggest Loser, probably skewing to the older part of Ten’s target audience. So it may not take out the 16-39′s, but may grab a bigger portion of the latter half of the 18-49′s, perhaps stealing some of those viewers from Home and Away and leaving the younger ones for 2.5 men (if that’s still on) and Home and Away to fight over. This will be interesting….
Whats with people writing off a show without even seeing it, take a look at the Chopping Block on 9 doing close to a million in a highly competitive slot
I have a sneaking suspicion that Ten will drop the demographic sooner than we think. By launching a program that caters outside their key demographic, it may get people seeing Ten in a new light in the leadup to 2010.
Six nights a week?? If it gets that far!
Looks like Ten giving up on their younger demographic!
You may be right, and Masterchef may flop, but I remember the same thing being said about Biggest Loser…who would have thought that show could be a success when played 6 days a week? You never know what’s going to happen. Seeing the success that NINE had with Ramsay at the beginning of this year proves that restaurant/cooking shows still have a following.
Bloody Hell Ch10.. I thought you were serious about wanting to be competition again.. obviously not!. You will have a serious challenger next year in ratings.. it will be for 4TH with the ABC!
lol, oh ten. The cooking fad is dead, no one watches Jamie, people even came to their senses with Ramsay. WTF makes ten think this will work? I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. Not exactly targeting their 16-39 demo either.
But that pathetic move is almost counterbalanced with the fact Rush gets a second season, I guess 800k really is the new 1mill.
Hmmm… Well, excellent concept… But 5 nights a week… Overkill.
Even compared to BB this looks boring.
Oh my god! It looks like a mix of every single cooking and restaurant themed show being put in a blender and then churning out this. I cannot believe Ten could think of anything better to replace BB than this!
I think I speak for everyone here when I say…
What… the… f***?!
Ten might as well cancel this straight away. There’s no way this will rate. I bet it will be gone after 2 weeks.
What a surprise! I never expected something as great as this to replace something as great as Big Brother! *obvious sarcasm*