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MasterChef Australia 2016: promo

'Ordinary Australians. Extraordinary food' TEN's 2016 promo features Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal & Marco Pierre White.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1t_KdKV4k&feature=youtu.be

TEN has released its fist promo for MasterChef Australia‘s eighth season.

Sticking to its tagline of ‘Ordinary Australians. Extraordinary food’ it is dripping in compliments from Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White, joined by Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston.

Shannon Bennett will also return as a guest mentor.

An airdate is yet to be announced.

Season eight of MasterChef Australia (the winner of the 2015 AACTA for Best Reality Television Series) also boasts some of Australia’s and the world’s best chefs including domestic goddess Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, Marco Pierre White, Curtis Stone, Maggie Beer, Kylie Kwong and Luke Nguyen, to name just a few.

With all these ingredients, it is a recipe that will take our contestants closer to achieving their food dreams and changing the course of their lives, as they compete to be Australia’s next MasterChef.

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  2. A brilliant promo. TEN have nailed it since the ‘Boys v Girls’ disaster. Definitely positioning the show as a premium leading cooking show and leaving MKR to own the ‘drama’ side of things.

  5. Looking forward to Masterchef. I watch MKR occasionally, but the script is always the same. Lots of squealing, high 5-ing as they do their prep, guests arrive, bitching all round, judges arrive, food arrives, the same shot of the judges looking solemn and then at each other. Judges taste food, look at each other solemnly, then pronounce from on high. Guests eat, whispering among themselves that they could do so much better, more bitching between them, lots of closeups of thunderous faces from the chief baddies of the group …. and so on and so on. The same each night. (yawn)

    And it certainly isn’t about the cooking, it’s just a whole lot of interactions between a bunch of not very nice people (or they’re made to look that way). The show’s editing is good, to get that impression, but that’s about all. And the audiences are lapping it up – I just don’t get it. It…

  7. Great promo but the line they use – ‘The fact that the world would embrace some cooking show made here’ is a bit of a stretch, the program was orginated in the UK, sure they took the format and manipulated it for how Australian audiences would like it but it is still under the Masterchef umbrella.
    I am sure Greg and John from the UK Masterchef wouldn’t be happy with that!!!

    1. True – but you have to admit that Masterchef Australia is a completely different beast to the UK original or 2005 restart, and was syndicated much more widely (30-odd countries?) than the original. And from what I’ve seen of the international versions, they’re based pretty heavily on the Aus rather than UK format.

      So yeah, Masterchef originated in the UK – but it’s Masterchef Australia that sold widely overseas and had its format adapted everywhere.

  8. Looking forward to Masterchef, the real cooking show where I actually learn things and there is no back biting etc. Having said that I watch MKR..but only for the ‘drama’ and fun….not the cooking.

  9. Quite a dramatic promo. but so preferable to Season 5′ ‘Boys v Girls’ effort which still makes me shudder at the thought. Am eagerly anticipating Masterchef’s return.

  11. It’s a good promo, clearly distinguishing itself from MKR which is barely about cooking. Looking forward to it being back on TV. Only having one version of Masterchef on a year has saved the franchise.

  12. I have a feeling this will be a big hit for Network Ten this year! The video shows just how superior Masterchef is to any other ‘competition’ series in Aus.

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