Comments on: TEN to reheat Celebrity MasterChef

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:17:27 +0000

Smart idea but Id rather just keep it to one Masterchef program, people will lose interest quicker, even if its only for 2 weeks. Nines version will be a failure – no one does reality TV like TEN does.

By: rattle

rattle — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:48:41 +0000

Ooohhh, that’s not good and any Australian show with our so called “celebs” is just cringe worthy.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:43:07 +0000

Given that this won’t have any of the difficulties attached to other celebrity spin-offs like Big Brother (no celeb showers!) or Friday Night Games (should’ve been done with regular folks like a game show – celebs too concerned about losing face – same goes for Hole in the Wall) or The Apprentice (uh what are they competing for?) then it probably will do well.

By: Guy

Guy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:30:30 +0000

I think this show will succeed. It will be either 1 ep per week over 10 weeks or 2 eps over 5 weeks. I dont think its overkill and the UK does a version of this also and has been working for years. I knocked this version of the show when TEN changed the whole format but i love this show now except for the Thursday eliminations which need to be replaced with a cook off for their life where they can use whatever they want and not out of that stupid pantry!

Who knows it might be fun to see Celebs fall on their feet in the kitchen

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:43:19 +0000

Good thing they’re only making 10 parts to the Celebrity version, might be dodgy if they make it go on for months. Good luck to the show, people thought MasterChef Australia would be a fail but it’s doing so well now so Celebrity version might be good. I hope the original version doesn’t get affected if the Celebrity doesn’t go well.

By: George

George — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:04:52 +0000

Hmm.. On second thought from my first comment, this series could work as a one-off thing done for charity or something like that.

If they have it with the celebrity chefs from each week I reckon that would be something good to watch, but if it was random D-Grade celebs then it’ll definitely fail.

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:14:53 +0000

I actually watched Celebrity MasterChef on Lifestyle Channel this weekend (the UK version) and it was actually really good.

It’s quite a condensed version of the normal show, with just 3 challenges and 3 celebrities each episode. If they followed the same format, I think it would work well for an Australian version.

By: gerry

gerry — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:12:22 +0000

@ George,

Completely agree that TEN’s promo department is fantastic – definitely the best in the country by a long mile. Nine have been pretty good with their identity promos (Still the One, wehearttv, choose nine etc), but Nine sucks when it comes to advertising a specific show. homeMADE’s promos definitely gave away too much, while TEN’s promos have always been a bit more secretive, and catchy. Well Done to TEN.

But I think Nine’s version could rate as if people knew it was like MasterChef, they might actually watch it because MC is great.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:45:50 +0000

the ch9 version you guys are talking about is “The great australian cookoff” they are airing the contestant call now. the only hint they give is that is that it will be an “exciting new cooking competition show to find australia’s top cook” i guess it’s no accident that they didn’t use the word chef.

i agree that the MC promotion was terrific.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:41:07 +0000

I would definately check it out. Rather than having it stripped across 2 weeks though, I would be inclined as David mentioned to have 10 1 hour episodes for 10 weeks, it would wrap up the year once Masterchef actually finishes. But there are a few things. I would have, celebrity chefs (i.e. Maybe the ones that participated in the show during the course of the competition) come in a battle off against each other. Then prehaps have another show where George and Gary have a cook offf with Matt Preston judging both dishes……

If on the other handd it is D-List celebrities then the show could go down the poop shoot….

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:09:19 +0000

that would make sense, having celebrity chefs cooking off against eachother. they need to choose very carefully r this could not work, but also dont forget celeb versions run pretty short

By: Kubs

Kubs — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:13:44 +0000

could it be that it is actually a cook off between celebrity chefs, as it seems TEN refer to the professionals in the current format as celebrities

By: George

George — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:49:58 +0000

@Gerry:

TEN’s promos are really good in my opinion. They get people intruiged but without giving away everything which happens. The “sneak peeks” done for MasterChef were just that, Sneak Peeks. They ran for 5 mins max I believe and not for ages on end like Nine and homeMADE.

Nine really need to take cues from TEN. Get people interested without oversaturating the show before it airs. You may have been able to get away with completely drenching 2.5 Men but it won’t work for every single TV show.

And if Nine do try to make their own version of the show it’ll probably flop bigtime because people aren’t so stupid that they won’t be able to see it’s a cheap copy of MasterChef.

By: jdjockey

jdjockey — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:45:45 +0000

This would be so bad for them to do a celebrity version of master chef, when networks for those types of shows, they always fail and loose rating. bad idea ten!!

By: gerry

gerry — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:28:43 +0000

@ redbullboy,

Are you serious, Nine are going to create a version of this? If they do, their promo department will kill any chances of it being a success. MasterChef’s promos got people talking, even though it was so unrealistic (people doing backflips, etc). Hopefully Nine don’t kill their own version by showing back-to-back “sneak peaks.” They should just have a decent promo like TEN. Well done ten on this show, it’s great.

By: Tepee

Tepee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:19:35 +0000

I agree “Celebrity” MasterChef doesn’t sound too appetising and may harm the popularity of future seasons. However a few years back they did the same with Big Brother and that went on to last for six more years, so who knows.