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How MasterChef missed out on ‘Mossy’
He was arguably the most charismatic character on My Kitchen Rules.
Matthew ‘Mossy’ Moss, the NSW Detective who showed his skill and his heart on the Seven hit series, had applied to appear on MasterChef Australia, but never even got as far as a first audition.
“Never got a word. Never got a look in,” he says. “I put the application in and I wasn’t even sighted off Nobbys.”
Nobbys Beach, in Newcastle, is another of Mossy’s uniquely Australian metaphors. When he was eliminated this week he said that meeting the other contestants on …
Gary Mehigan on the MasterChef bench
After his recent fall in a car park, MasterChef judge Gary Mehigan has been all but out of action for some filming of the TEN series.
The slip required surgery on his knee and thigh while the show has had to continue on with its production.
The Daily Telegraph reports that celebrity chef Matt Moran (The Chopping Block, MasterChef Australia) has had to step in as a frequent guest to cover for Mehigan, who is expected to return this weekend thanks to a pair of crutches.
Mehigan’s absence will impact on the show in …
Time taps Masterchef as future trend
Time Magazine has selected MasterChef Australia as one of television’s future trends.
It named the show in 10 Ideas For The Next 10 Years, a “thinker’s guide to the most important trends of the new decade.”
Time described the show as:
A competitive cooking game show based on a British series of the same name, MasterChef Australia has enjoyed steadily climbing ratings since it premiered in April 2009. In a round up of the most popular shows that have aired in Australia since 2001, Masterchef is only outranked by the 2005 Australian Open final …
Auditions: My Kitchen Rules
Seven is so happy with My Kitchen Rules it has greenlit another series. And given the money that it’s cost to makeover its kitchen in Sydney it’s no surprise it will launch straight into finding new contestants. Could it screen a second series as soon as MasterChef ends this year?
Applications are now open for a second season via its official website.
Teams of Two are again required and team members must have a pre-existing personal relationship such as friends, relatives, partners.
Both team members must be over 18 years of age and …
Charlie puts the Sheen on Mondays
What is it about Melbourne viewers and Two and a Half Men? Last night the new episode hauled 635,000 in that city, rising to a big 1.58m viewers -and very probably assuring its place as the week’s top show. No doubt the end of the long weekend in Melbourne helped as viewers settled in for an early night.
Both the Charlie Sheen comedy and My Kitchen Rules have been battling it out for top place recently. Last night Seven’s cooking contest ina pseudo MasterChef kitchen settled with just under 1.4m viewers, still …
Cancer battle for TV doc
Dr. John Tickell, who appeared on Celebrity Overhaul, has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.
The 65 year old doctor and motivational speaker suffered a seizure on a flight from Sydney to Melbourne last month and was rushed to hospital. He was due to start work on a new lifestyle program for the Nine Network just days after the cancer was diagnosed.
“It is a big shock but the doc is in great spirits and everyone is confident that his lifelong devotion to health and fitness will hold him in great stead …
After Easter, it’s war.
It’s hard to believe, but we’re only three and a half weeks away from non-ratings again.
Yep, two weeks of Easter non-ratings begin on March 28th and end on April 10th. It barely feels like the television year has begun, and certainly with the Olympics it hasn’t been much of a level playing field.
Between now and then Nine is rolling out Top Gear, V and Survivor while Seven and TEN are by and large staying the course with shows already unveiled.
From April 11th the ball game changes. That’s when networks have a …
Julie Goodwin joins Today
Masterchef Australia winner Julie Goodwin joins the Today show as a regular from tomorrow.
Goodwin has been appointed as the show’s cook, and will appear every Tuesday at 8:40am, providing healthy and easy options for family dinners.
Today’s Executive Producer Tom Malone says, “Julie showed with Masterchef, that it’s not all about glitz and glamour and froth and bubble, rather substance and real solutions for healthy family dinners. That fits in perfectly with the Today show ethos – healthy substantial content that has a great aftertaste!”
Goodwin adds, “I am really thrilled about becoming …
Seven’s Kitchen yet to rule
Seven will be reminded today that MasterChef Australia was no breakout hit for TEN, after a soft launch for its new cooking reality show, My Kitchen Rules.
The show managed 1.1m viewers in its premiere, beaten by a new episode of Two and a Half Men on 1.51m which boomed in Melbourne. The Big Bang Theory also bettered it with 1.24m viewers.
Seven’s show, with a format that so far skates dangerously close to Come Dine With Me, will be trying to get viewers to bond more with its personalities with another episode …
2010 Logies: Who didn’t make the cut already?
Sarah Wilson was Presenter on the highest rating show in 2009 -but it wasn’t enough to land her on the shortlist for 2010 Logie Nominations.
The Masterchef host is now out of the race for Best Presenter and Gold Logie before the race even begins. But she is in good company.
Yesterday’s list of possible contenders published by TV Week again utilised a voting system it has employed in recent years: an individual numerical code for each actor, actress and presenter as a way of facilitating the results. It contrasts with a historical …
Shine Australia to produce Junior Masterchef
While MasterChef Australia is produced by FremantleMedia Australia, Junior Masterchef will be produced this year by Shine Australia for Network TEN.
The newly-established production company retains the rights for the MasterChef spin-off from its parent Shine Group, which licensed the rights to the original show to FremantleMedia. The deal did not include FremantleMedia having all spin-off rights.
Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch launched the new production company in Melbourne today at George Calombaris’, Press Club restaurant. She was joined by her joint Australian CEOs, Mark and Carl Fennessy, formerly of FremantleMedia Australia.
Junior …
Poh’s Kitchen
Poh Ling Yeow is yet another living, breathing example of how coming second in a reality competition is no loss.
She strolls into her very own ABC series with little more introduction than the success of MasterChef. She’s also probably the first reality contestant in Australia to land their very own series. Others who have been given hosting opportunities, were opted to established brands.
Poh is a name just about everyone in the country knows. And even if she was given a second chance on TEN’s reality series (eliminated then returned), she is …