Comments on: Seven cooking up reality rival

By: bob

bob — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:23:01 +0000

For those who mentioned Come Dine With me it seems that Lifestyle Food is doing an Aussie version, Granada productions is casting it

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:28:06 +0000

@Bec, MasterChef Australia is anything but a copy of the UK version – it’s basically a cross between Idol and The Biggest Loser only it’s about cooking.
By the way, I agree with Andrew. homeMADE, THIS afternoon, MasterChef, why don’t they just call them Home Made, This Afternoon and Master Chef??

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:14:42 +0000

10′s version of masterchef compared to the uk is alot different, our rules and theirs looks like a cheap production. people who are saying that masterchef has been copied, well duh! thats not were talking about! were talking about the fact ten brought a format from another country and made it work and now 7 and 9 have to follow which is bulls**t thats called no original thinking, ten changed masterchef aussie vserion alot.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:01:23 +0000

FremantleMedia opened both Loser and MasterChef out to stripped formats when they hadn’t been anywhere else, and made them both work.

By: slydoggie

slydoggie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:59:43 +0000

@Brodie: Whilst TEN doesn’t always come up with original ideas, they are usually the first to bring them to Australian TV’s and usually with a twist on the international franchise.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:51:51 +0000

I wouldn’t be suprised if they call it ‘So you think you can Cook?’. No wonder PayTV Drive has gone up in recent times, cause the FTA Networks are trying
to out-stooge each other with copycat shows. They’ll keep copying each other until there is No-FTA channels left!.. Nice you FTA Network idiots!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:40:40 +0000

For goodness sake people, Ten did not invent the cooking show genre!!!!!!

By: Steven I

Steven I — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:43:49 +0000

Seven seem to have forgotten how successful not Popstars Live was trying to cash in on the popularity of Australian Idol in it’s hey day.

By: bec

bec — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:57:33 +0000

masterchef australia is nothing new it is just a copy of top chef america and masterchef UK… Very original of 10 to copy these programs and mix them into one and call it an original. Even more ground breaking of 7 to copy the copy!!!

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:27:19 +0000

here is what ten’s david mott had to say

Ten’s chief programmer David Mott said he wasn’t surprised by other network’s trying to cash in on their success but warned viewers wouldn’t be fooled.

“We aren’t the ones that need to be concerned because when you’ve got a brand like this audiences smell a rat and go “Hang on a second, why are the other networks copying?”,” he said.

“It’s try hard and it’s been done. I don’t think audiences will respond”

soooo very true david!!!!

By: FJ

FJ — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:22:56 +0000

Roy and HJ always used to call 7 channel copycat. Things haven’t changed.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:19:53 +0000

@Andrew: I agree re: Come Dine With Me. I got hooked on it earlier this year in the UK. Would adapt well here I think, and the production cost would be miniscule!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:49:00 +0000

One of the networks needs to buy the rights to the UK show “Come Dine With Me” it has all the elements to make people want to tune in, people cooking, competition and drama from people who have only just met.

It could work as a 5 nights a week thing or what they do now its 4 people and it fits in an hour show.

By: Rutzie

Rutzie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:32:30 +0000

Does anyone else think that this could also be an attempt at trying to sabotage Masterchef by the way of over doing the cooking genre so people are sick of it by the time the next series comes around.

By: Johnny 1.5

Johnny 1.5 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:03:07 +0000

Nine’s The Great Aussie Cook Off sounds like a hybrid between Tens Ready, Steady, Cook and The Lifestyle Channels Great BBQ Challenge … and to think Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant have said goodbye to their show The Cook and the Chef just as these things get popular.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:07:49 +0000

Master-Theft