Returning: MasterChef Australia
MasterChef Australia returns Monday, May 5 and plays Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights on TEN.
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Season six of MasterChef Australia will kick off on Monday, May 5 at 7.30pm and plays Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night.
This will undoubtedly see the show competing head to head with House Rules and The Voice for much of its current schedule (the latter is still unannounced).
Returning are Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris with Kylie Kwong as guest mentor. This season also includes appearances by Maggie Beer, Nobu Matsuhisa, Darren Purchese, Frank Camorra and Marco Pierre White.
TEN has undertaken research this year to focus the show back onto the food and is claiming it has uncovered its best home cooks the show has ever featured.
MasterChef Australia returns to our screens with the best group of home cooks the competition has ever seen. Sharing an unrivalled passion for food, the contestants deliver some of the finest dishes in the program’s history. These are ordinary Australians who can do extraordinary things for the love of food.
As chefs, Gary and George are relishing the chance to mentor these high-calibre cooks, pushing them to better their best dish each time they tie their apron strings. Renowned food critic and fellow judge Matt Preston will motivate, educate and stimulate the contestants to harness their skill and creativity to continually raise the bar.
Celebrated Sydney chef Kylie Kwong joins as a regular guest mentor this series, guiding the home cooks through testing times.
Season six also boasts some of Australia’s favourite chefs including Maggie Beer, Nobu Matsuhisa, Darren Purchese, Frank Camorra and Marco Pierre White, to name just a few.
With all these ingredients, it’s 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 the next Australian MasterChef.
Monday, May 5, at 7.30pm on TEN.
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36 Responses
Hopefully MC have learnt from last year. Regardless, we’ll be watching so HR and TV get the flick.
Ten has tried 7pm starts for contest shows before and it didn’t work. Lots of viewers just switched over to MKR, or The Voice etc. at 7:30pm.
If Masterchef finishes at 8:10pm what PG rated show are they going to put on until they can show M rated Drama or sitcoms after 8:30pm?
Either Ten finds PG content that can go head-to-head with Seven and Nine’s, or they have to live with a less than 10% share.
Yes Beverly McGarvey noted one needs to commission in advance for scheduling when I asked her about this in January. But the first week they are 90 minute episodes anyway. I suspect the show could have gone back and re-edited with enough planning. But hey, why risk a multi-million dollar tentpole when you can just run The Project for another 30 minutes?
@marcey
Orphan Black went from 28k for the S1 final on Tuesday to 33k for the S2 premiere. And if you include the repeat of the S1 eps on Friday nights they rated about the same.
I really hope this show succeeds. I find it interesting how people who’ve never seen this season and any future shows that it’s up against can know how the ratings will go.
Can we just wait and see what happens?
I’m also wondering, unlike in the past, when the ratings diaries were at different homes over the different ratings period. We now have people meters stay with the one family for a year. Wont that mean we’ll get the same daily results because it’s the viewing habits of the one group over a year, not a cross section?
Ratings boxes are rotated, but you can stay in the panel for up to 4 years maximum. Seven, Nine and TEN own OzTAM so it’s up to them to effect change if they are unhappy with it. I suspect two are happy.
Not another cooking show!!!! It have been flops for the past few seasons and I don’t think this year will be any better.
The Voice got my votes.
Ch9 this morning announced The Voice for May 4, assuming it will also run on Monday head to head with the MC launch….going to be a long winter for ten, at least on The Voice the judges have swinging chairs to turn around and watch, whereas the viewers will keep their backs turned to ten…zero buys on this one
As people have mentioned Ten News rates. Then at 6pm the ratings drop. Now if Ten can’t sustain the viewers between 6-7pm. Then they have to try to get them from somewhere. Maybe back from somewhere since it has been proven people will flick on Ten as well as flick off. Nine and Seven News have around 2 million viewers. There’s probably others elsewhere but I don’t know the details. Basically Ten need to get them from somewhere. The News ends at 7pm.
That’s why people have been suggesting the 7pm starts. Also Ten tried Modern Family on Sunday at 6pm. It only improved the ratings a little. I’ll admit I like ideas. I also like the idea of trying to fix things. But I really learn from real figures. Even if it takes a day or two. Again 7-8.30pm are key. Maybe it won’t work. But I fear 7.30pm won’t either.