MasterChef | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Franc Roddam |
Directed by | Rich Kim |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 14 |
No. of episodes | 286 |
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Running time | 42 minutes |
Production companies | One Potato Two Potato Reveille Productions (2010–12) Shine America (2012–14) Endemol Shine North America (2015–) |
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Network | Fox |
Release | July 27, 2010 – present |
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MasterChef Junior |
MasterChef is an American competitive cooking reality television series that premiered on Fox on July 27, 2010. [1] Based on the British series of the same name and produced by Endemol Shine North America and One Potato Two Potato, the series features amateur and home chefs competing to win the title of 'MasterChef'. [2] The current line-up of judges consists of Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, and Aarón Sánchez.
The fourteenth season, subtitled Generations, premiered on May 29, 2024. [3]
MasterChef is based on the British BBC series MasterChef . The competition takes place in the MasterChef soundstage located in Los Angeles, CA which includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, a freezer/fridge area and a fine-dining restaurant/seating dining area room used for certain challenges.
While the particular format of the season has slightly varied over the years, the following challenges have all been regularly featured:
Once the competition is reduced to either the final two or three competitors, the finalists will compete against each other in a three-course cook-off. All courses of the meal are judged and an overall winner is crowned. The winner of each season wins $250,000, a MasterChef trophy, and the title of MasterChef. Some seasons have also added other prizes such as a cookbook deal.
Season | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 |
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1 | Gordon Ramsay | Graham Elliot | Joe Bastianich |
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6 | Christina Tosi | ||
7 | Guest judges [a] | ||
8 | Aarón Sánchez | ||
9 | Joe Bastianich | ||
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For the first five seasons, the series starred celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay (the co-creator of the series and Hell's Kitchen ), Graham Elliot and restaurateur Joe Bastianich. [4] From seasons six through eight, pastry chef Christina Tosi temporarily replaced Bastianich. [5] On season seven, Elliot departed as a judge, and in place of a third judge, there were a series of guest judges, one of which was Aarón Sánchez. Since season eight, Sánchez joined as a regular judge. [6] In season nine, Bastianich returned as a regular judge, replacing Tosi.
Season | Contestants | Episodes | Originally released | Winner | Runner(s)-up | ||
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First released | Last released | ||||||
1 | 14 | 13 | July 27, 2010 | September 15, 2010 | Whitney Miller | David Miller | |
2 | 18 | 20 | June 6, 2011 | August 16, 2011 | Jennifer Behm | Adrien Nieto | |
3 | 18 | 20 | June 4, 2012 | September 10, 2012 | Christine Hà | Josh Marks | |
4 | 19 | 25 | May 22, 2013 | September 11, 2013 | Luca Manfè | Natasha Crnjac | |
5 | 22 | 19 | May 26, 2014 | September 15, 2014 | Courtney Lapresi | Elizabeth Cauvel | |
6 | 22 | 20 | May 20, 2015 | September 16, 2015 | Claudia Sandoval | Derrick Peltz | |
7 | 20 | 19 | June 1, 2016 | September 14, 2016 | Shaun O'Neale | Brandi Mudd & David Williams | |
8 | 20 | 21 | May 31, 2017 | September 20, 2017 | Dino Angelo Luciano | Eboni Henry & Jason Wang | |
9 | 24 | 23 | May 30, 2018 | September 19, 2018 | Gerron Hurt | Ashley Mincey & Cesar Cano | |
10 | 20 | 25 | May 29, 2019 | September 18, 2019 | Dorian Hunter | Sarah Faherty | |
11 | 15 | 18 | June 2, 2021 | September 15, 2021 | Kelsey Murphy | Autumn Moretti & Suu Khin | |
12 | 20 | 20 | May 25, 2022 | September 14, 2022 | Dara Yu | Christian Green & Michael Silverstein | |
13 | 20 | 20 | May 24, 2023 | September 20, 2023 | Grant Gillon | Jennifer Maune & Kennedy Underwood | |
14 | 20 | 19 | May 29, 2024 | September 18, 2024 | Michael Leonard | Becca Gibb & Kamay Lafalaise |
Note: Bold indicates the winner(s) of the challenge.
MasterChef Celebrity Showdown (aired January 18, 2016) [7]
MasterChef Celebrity Showdown (aired January 2, 2017) [8]
MasterChef Celebrity Family Showdown (aired May 15, 2019 and May 22, 2019) [9]
Season one aired as a summer series initially on Tuesday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET, debuting on July 27, 2010; it later moved to Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET on August 18.
On September 7, 2010, MasterChef was renewed for a second season, [10] which started with a two-night premiere on June 6, 2011.
On October 6, 2011, MasterChef was renewed for a third season, which started with a two-night premiere on June 4, 2012, following Hell's Kitchen. [11] [12]
On July 23, 2012, MasterChef was renewed for a fourth season, [13] [14] which premiered on May 22, 2013. [15]
On May 10, 2013, Fox renewed MasterChef for an additional two seasons, which extended the show to at least six seasons. [16]
On July 22, 2015, Fox renewed MasterChef for a seventh season. [17]
On September 19, 2018, the series had been renewed for a tenth season, which premiered on May 29, 2019 with Ramsay, Sánchez, and Bastianich returning as judges. [18] [19] [20] [21]
On August 18, 2021, the series was renewed for a twelfth season, [22] which premiered on May 25, 2022. [23]
On September 14, 2022, Fox renewed the series for a thirteenth season, prior to the airing of the twelfth season's finale later that same day. [24] The season premiered on May 24, 2023. [25]
On August 9, 2023, the series was renewed for a fourteenth season. [26] On March 4, 2024, it was revealed that the fourteenth season subtitled Generations will premiere on May 29, 2024. [3]
On May 13, 2024. the series was renewed for a fifteenth season. [27]
The premiere episode received mixed reviews from major newspapers and online review websites, with reviews commenting that it was entertaining, but criticized the emotional aspect. The Los Angeles Times claimed [28] the contestants' back stories were "blown up," which referred to their dramatization. [28] A Reuters reviewer explained the show "manages to be hugely entertaining and involving thanks mainly to the judges’ personalities and the ability of the producers to spot emotionally charged stories." [28] The Globe and Mail said "the contrived sentimentality of it is, frankly, vomitous" referring to the emotion in contestants' reactions. [28]
The program also attracted negative attention in season two when Agence France-Presse journalist Alex Ogle discovered that the producers doctored a crowd scene said to be of "thousands upon thousands lined up" to audition for the program. [29] [30] In post-production, portions of the scene were replicated so as to make the crowd look larger than it actually was, as evidenced by multiple appearances by especially noticeable people in the scene. [29] [30]
In 2018, season three auditionee Jessie Glenn discussed her experiences becoming a contestant, something she was uniquely able to do because it was overlooked that she had never returned the nondisclosure contract which all applicants are required to sign. [31] [32] She revealed what she described as a carefully planned campaign by the show's staff to create emotional reactions for the sake of on-air drama which caused long-term emotional distress for many contestants, a situation she said was common to most American reality television; she called the casting process "sadistic prying" to assess contestants' weaknesses and vulnerabilities and decide how best to pit contestants against one another to "cause friction and distress". [31] [32] [33] Glenn also revealed that One Potato Two Potato, Ramsay's production company, assessed a 15% "management fee" on contestant earnings. [32]
Season | Episodes | Premiered | Ended | TV season | Time slot (ET) | Season averages (Live + SD) | |||||
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Date | Premiere viewers (millions) | Date | Finale viewers (millions) | Viewers (millions) | 18-49 rating | ||||||
1 | 13 | July 27, 2010 | 5.75 [34] | September 15, 2010 | 4.81 [34] | 2010 | Tuesday 9:00 pm (1–3) Wednesday 8:00 pm (4–13) | 5.26 [34] | 2.3 [34] | ||
2 | 20 | June 6, 2011 | 4.40 [35] | August 16, 2011 | 7.12 [35] | 2011 | Monday 9:00 pm | 5.27 [35] | 2.2 [35] | ||
Tuesday 9:00 pm | 5.35 [35] | 2.2 [35] | |||||||||
3 | June 4, 2012 | 5.10 [36] | September 10, 2012 | 6.52 [36] | 2012 | Monday 9:00 pm | 5.84 [36] | 2.5 [36] | |||
Tuesday 9:00 pm | 5.67 [36] | 2.4 [36] | |||||||||
4 | 25 | May 22, 2013 | 5.30 [37] | September 11, 2013 | 6.31 [37] | 2013 | Wednesday 8:00 pm | 5.63 [37] | 2.3 [37] | ||
5 | 19 | May 26, 2014 | 4.26 [38] | September 15, 2014 | 5.56 [38] | 2014 | Monday 8:00 pm | 5.43 [38] | 1.9 [38] | ||
6 | 20 | May 20, 2015 | 3.39 [39] | September 16, 2015 | 4.69 [39] | 2015 | Wednesday 8:00 pm | 4.56 [39] | 1.5 [39] | ||
7 | 19 | June 1, 2016 | 3.81 [40] | September 14, 2016 | 4.36 [40] | 2016 | 4.03 [40] | 1.3 [40] | |||
8 | 21 | May 31, 2017 | 3.67 [41] | September 20, 2017 | 4.14 [41] | 2017 | 3.62 [41] | 1.1 [41] | |||
9 | 23 | May 30, 2018 | 3.52 [42] | September 19, 2018 | 3.56 [43] | 2018 | 3.52 [42] | 1.0 [42] | |||
10 | 25 | May 29, 2019 | 3.14 [44] | September 18, 2019 | 3.17 [45] | 2019 | Wednesday 8:00 pm (1-4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20–25) Thursday 8:00 pm (5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19) | 3.06 [46] | 0.8 [46] | ||
11 | 18 | June 2, 2021 | 2.55 [47] | September 15, 2021 | 2.53 [48] | 2021 | Wednesday 8:00 pm | 2.51 [49] | 0.6 [49] | ||
12 | 20 | May 25, 2022 | 1.75 [50] | September 14, 2022 | 2.53 [51] | 2022 | 2.22 [52] | 0.4 [52] | |||
13 | 20 | May 24, 2023 | 1.63 [53] | September 20, 2023 | 2.44 [54] | 2023 | TBA | TBA | |||
14 | 19 | May 29, 2024 | 1.81 [55] | September 18, 2024 | TBA | 2024 | TBA | TBA |
West 175 Productions [56] produced an earlier American adaptation, MasterChef USA, broadcast on PBS from 2000 to 2001. The series format was based directly on BBC's MasterChef and lasted 28 episodes over two seasons. It was hosted by British chef Gary Rhodes, who hosted the UK version of MasterChef in 2001.
In 2011, Reveille Productions and Shine TV, announced licensing deals with kitchenware manufacturers The Cookware Company, Triple Loop Housewares, Global Knives, and Kidsline to produce MasterChef-branded cookware, including stainless steel pans, knives, kitchen appliances, and children's cooking sets. The branded products were given to contestants on the television show to use during challenges. [57] The show changed its branding in 2013 to reflect its expanded focus on consumer products in addition to the television shows. [58] In 2018, Shine America hired Brand Central as their licensing agency, [59] and more branded products, including barbecue tools from Unibrands and children's cooking sets from Wicked Cool Toys, were announced. [60]
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