MasterChef (U.S. TV series)

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MasterChef
MasterChef Logo & Wordmark.svg
Genre Cookery
Created by Franc Roddam
Judges
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes181
Production
Running time42 minutes
Production company(s) One Potato Two Potato
Reveille Productions (2010–2012)
Shine America (2012–2014)
Endemol Shine North America (2015–)
Release
Original network Fox
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
720p (HDTV)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original releaseJuly 27, 2010 (2010-07-27) –
present
Chronology
Related shows MasterChef Junior
External links
Website

MasterChef is an American competitive cooking reality TV show based on the original British series of the same name, open to amateur and home chefs. [1] Produced by Shine America and One Potato Two Potato, it debuted on July 27, 2010 on the Fox network, following the professional cooking competition series, Hell's Kitchen . [2]

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Chef person that directs preparation of meals

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Endemol Shine North America is the American division of Endemol Shine Group that was founded on March 15, 2002 as a merger of Shine Americas, Shine USA, and Reveille Productions.

Contents

For the first 5 seasons, the series starred celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay (the co-creator of the series and Hell's Kitchen ), Graham Elliot and restaurateur Joe Bastianich. [3] From Seasons 6–8, pastry chef Christina Tosi temporarily replaced Bastianich. [4] On Season 7, Graham departed as a judge, and in place of a third judge, there were a series of guest judges, one of which was Aarón Sanchez. Since Season 8, Sanchez joined as a regular judge. [5] In Season 9, Bastianich returned as a regular judge, replacing Tosi. On September 19, 2018, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a tenth season, which premiered on May 29, 2019 with Ramsay, Sanchez, and Bastianich reprising their roles as judges/hosts respectively. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Gordon Ramsay Scottish chef, writer and television presenter

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Graham Elliot Bowles is an American chef, based in Chicago, Illinois.

Format

MasterChef is based on the British BBC series MasterChef . It was created by celebrity chef, TV personality and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay. The competition takes place in the MasterChef warehouse/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.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.

At least one round was then used to trim the number of remaining chefs to about sixteen to eighteen. One type of challenge has the chefs performing a routine task like dicing onions, during which the judges will observe their technique. Judges can advance a chef to the next round or eliminate them at any time during the challenge by taking their apron. A second type of challenge is to have the chefs invent a new dish around a staple ingredient or theme, with the judges advancing or eliminating players based on the taste of their dishes.

In Season 5, auditions were dropped, and thirty competitors were challenged directly in the MasterChef kitchen to get an apron. In Season 6, twenty semi-finalists were surprised when they were told they had to go into head-to-head competition with another competitor cooking a dish with the same main ingredient; the winner received an apron. There was then a final last-chance cook-off where each judge selected 2 non-winners to compete for the final 2 aprons. From season 7-8 the top 40 home cooks battle it out into group of two or four where they will cook steak to scallops to cupcakes and 1 or two of them move on into the top 20. There was no last-chance-cook off. Starting from season 9 the top 43 home cooks battle it in groups of 2, 3, and 4 from a category of their signature dishes to get a spot in the top 24. Each judge will have only 8 aprons to give out and then will mentor those cooks throughout the competition.

Subsequently, the formal competition begins typically following a 4-event cycle that takes place over 2-4 episodes, with two chefs eliminated after the second and fourth event. The events typically are:

This cycle continues until only 4 chefs remain, upon which the judges eliminate 2 chefs to select the final 2 competitors. In Season 1, 2 cooks would face off against each other to cook three dishes, with the one cooking the better dishes advancing to the finale. However, since Season 2, the 4 cooks remaining split into two teams of two. The best team automatically advances to the top 3, with the losing team facing off against each other. In the top 3, from Season 2 to 4, the winner of the mystery box gets first choice in choosing one of 3 ingredients, while the second best dish gets second choice, and the loser gets whatever is remaining. The 2 best dishes advance to the finale. From Season 5-6, the top 3 individually face each other to serve VIPs, and while the winner moves to the finale, the remaining 2 compete in a final pressure test for a spot in the finale. In season 7 the judges announce to the top 4 that 3 home cooks will be in the finale and they split into two teams for a team challenge. The losing team will face a pressure test where one will move on into the finale and one will go home. Starting from season 8 the top four home cooks compete in a series of 3 skills test in each one home cook moves on until 3 home cooks have gone into the finale and 1 home cook goes home. The final 2 or 3 face off in preparing a complete three course menu in a fixed amount of time (2 hours overall in the first 3 seasons, one hour per dish since Season 4) in which the judges evaluate both the individual dishes and the overall meal's composition. The judges then select the winner of MasterChef, who wins $250,000, their own cookbook from season 1, 3-8, a MasterChef Trophy and the title of Masterchef, from season 7-8 the winning home cook get to be a celebrity guest on the Masterchef Cruise, and a MasterChef trophy. From season 2 and 9 the winner gets $250,000 and the MasterChef trophy.

History

Season 1 aired as a summer series initially on Tuesday nights at 9:00 PM ET/PT, debuting on July 27, 2010; it later moved to Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM ET/PT on August 18.

On September 7, 2010, MasterChef was renewed for a second season, [10] which started with a 2-night premiere on June 6, 2011.

On October 6, 2011, MasterChef was renewed for a third season, which started with a 2-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, in its new Wednesday at 8:00 PM ET/PT timeslot. [15]

On May 10, 2013, Fox renewed MasterChef for an additional 2 seasons, which will extend the show to at least 6 seasons.

On July 22, 2015, Fox renewed MasterChef for a seventh season. [16]

Series overview

Seasons

SeasonEpisodesPremiere DateFinale DateNo. of FinalistsWinnerRunner(s)-upJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3
1 13July 27, 2010September 15, 201014 Whitney Miller David Miller Gordon Ramsay Graham Elliot [3] Joe Bastianich
2 20June 6, 2011August 16, 201118Jennifer BehmAdrien Nieto
3 20June 4, 2012September 10, 2012 Christine Hà Joshua Marks†
4 25May 22, 2013September 11, 201319Luca ManféNatasha Crnjac
5 19May 26, 2014September 15, 201422Courtney LapresiElizabeth Cauvel
6 20May 20, 2015September 16, 2015Claudia SandovalDerrick Peltz Christina Tosi
7 19June 1, 2016September 14, 201620Shaun O'Neale David Williams
& Brandi Mudd		Guest judges [lower-alpha 1]
8 21May 31, 2017September 20, 2017Dino Angelo LucianoEboni Henry
& Jason Wang		 Aarón Sanchez [5]
9 23May 30, 2018September 19, 201824Gerron HurtAshley Mincey
& Cesar Cano		 Joe Bastianich
10 May 29, 2019201920
  1. ↑ The guest judges rotated between Sanchez, Wolfgang Puck, Edward Lee, Kevin Sbraga, Richard Blais, and Daniel Boulud

Specials

Note: Bold indicates the winner(s) of the challenge.

MasterChef Celebrity Showdown (aired January 18, 2016) [17]

MasterChef Celebrity Showdown (aired January 2, 2017) [18]

MasterChef Celebrity Family Showdown (aired May 15, 2019 and May 22, 2019) [19]

Ratings

SeasonEpisodesPremieredEndedTV seasonTime slot (ET)Season averages (Live + SD)
DatePremiere viewers
(millions)		DateFinale viewers
(millions)		Viewers (millions)18-49 rating
1 13July 27, 20105.75 [20] September 15, 20104.81 [20] 2010 Tuesday 9:00pm (1-3)
Wednesday 8:00pm (4-13)		5.26 [20] 2.3 [20]
2 20June 6, 20114.40 [21] August 16, 20117.12 [21] 2011 Monday 9:00 pm5.27 [21] 2.2 [21]
Tuesday 9:00 pm5.35 [21] 2.2 [21]
3 June 4, 20125.10 [22] September 10, 20126.52 [22] 2012 Monday 9:00 pm5.84 [22] 2.5 [22]
Tuesday 9:00 pm5.67 [22] 2.4 [22]
4 25May 22, 20135.30 [23] September 11, 20136.31 [23] 2013 Wednesday 8:00 pm5.63 [23] 2.3 [23]
5 19May 26, 20144.26 [24] September 15, 20145.56 [24] 2014 Monday 8:00 pm5.43 [24] 1.9 [24]
6 20May 20, 20153.39 [25] September 16, 20154.69 [25] 2015 Wednesday 8:00 pm4.56 [25] 1.5 [25]
7 19June 1, 20163.81 [26] September 14, 20164.36 [26] 2016 4.03 [26] 1.3 [26]
8 21May 31, 20173.67 [27] September 20, 20174.14 [27] 2017 3.62 [27] 1.1 [27]
9 23May 30, 20183.52 [28] September 19, 20183.56 [29] 2018 3.52 [28] 1.0 [28]
10 TBAMay 29, 20193.14 [30] TBA 2019 Wednesday 8:00pm (1-4)
Thursday 8:00pm (5-)

Reception

Critical

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 [31] the contestants' back stories were "blown up," which referred to their dramatization. [31] 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." [31] The Globe and Mail said "the contrived sentimentality of it is, frankly, vomitous" referring to the emotion in contestants' reactions. [31]

The program also attracted negative attention in Season 2 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. [32] [33] 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. [32] [33]

In February 2018, Salon published "I Am A MasterChef Survivor" [34] by former contestant Jessie Glenn outlining the abusive practices MasterChef used with contestants, provoking reactions from many in the food industry including New Yorker food correspondent, Helen Rosen.

International broadcasting

Following the success of the first Italian season, Cielo broadcast the first 2 seasons of the show in 2012. In 2013, Sky Uno broadcast Season 3 and, shortly after the victory of Luca Manfè, Season 4, and all other editions as well, with reruns on Cielo.

In Canada, CTV broadcasts the program.

Cosmopolitan Television, in Spain, has broadcast all seasons of the show so far. STAR World India broadcasts the show in India and Sri Lanka.

From January 4, 2016, the show airs on W (formerly Watch) in the UK, starting with season 1.

From January 17, 2016, the show airs in France in a dubbed version on AB1 starting with season 1.

It is also aired in the Philippines, Myanmar and Singapore through cable and satellite providers via channels like Star World(for Filipino viewers),MRTV-4(for Burmese viewers as Master Chief Myanmar) and Fox Life(for Singaporean viewers).

Earlier American adaptation

West 175 Productions [35] produced an earlier American adaptation, MasterChef USA, broadcast on PBS from 2000 to 2001. That version was based directly from the BBC series and which lasted 28 episodes over 2 seasons. It was hosted by British chef Gary Rhodes.

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