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Returning: MasterChef Australia

MasterChef Australia returns Monday, May 5 and plays Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights on TEN.

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2014-04-23_1019Season 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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  2. I’d rather want to start this show at an earlier time at 7PM. And that way I don’t have to rely on The Voice AU – sick and tired of watching Music Reality Shows.

  3. I will watch it but may end up taping the episodes if it gets in the way of other programming. Plus it will probably be replayed on one or ten the next day like the biggest loser was.

    It will be interesting though how this series will go. I watched bits of it last year but found myself not really stressing if I missed an episode. I taped the final but didnt even watch it.

    However I do enjoy Masterclass where you can get some good tips.

  5. I’m really looking forward to this coming back, but like so many others on here don’t think it will have much luck against The Voice & House Rules, but to be fair there’s not much else they could put it up against. Earlier in the year it would be up against MKR & The Block and later there will be Big Brother & I’m sure 7 will have something up their sleeves that would out rate it. I really hope it does better than the last couple of seasons. But they say every year they have the best cooks ever, so we’ll have to see about that.

  7. This show has had it’s time. Ten should get advice from ABC and now SBS has a show Orphan Black that has jumped up by 20%. Ten needs new shows new host.

  8. Wow! What a great plan! You’re whole network is struggling, including this particular show for the last few seasons. Endless feedback from your audience tells you it would be better received (and that they would be more likely to watch it) at 7pm. So you decide to be stubborn and launch it at 7:30 against two of the biggest shows on TV. Brilliant programming!
    It’s probably too late now anyways, they should have been advertising the “7pm reality rebranding” thing for weeks and really getting the message out there.
    As other people have stated here, they simply have no one to blame but themselves.

  11. TEN are even more stupid then i thought they were. They should have played it at 7pm not 7:30pm. They will only have themselves to blame when it fails.

  13. That is it I have just lost all the sympathy I have for ten while I will watch it because I like the show I have no sympathy at all for ten it will fail ten refuse to realise that they can’t compete against nine and sevens reality and they should have learnt with TBL and SYTYCD which were both massive flops master chef will join them and I know this is a mean thing to say especially since I am a fan of the show but I am almost hoping it dose flop maybe that will make them wake up but I bet they don’t

  14. Seven successfully moves Sunday Night in and out of their schedule to make way for its entertainment shows, why can’t Ten do the same? Surely a 3 month trimming of The Project to 30 mins to make way for Masterchef at 7pm couldn’t hurt!

  15. I really hope it succeeds this season, it is a superior reality show to the others on air.
    I feel ready for it, I didn’t watch last year, I was away for the first month then just couldn’t click with the show when I returned.
    The promos have been fantastic.

    As for the 7pm vs 7.30pm timeslot – I think 7.30 is best…. 7pm means making yet another change to the Project, given that they just lost Charlie and ratings have more or less stayed the same you don’t want to upset that – it’s finally starting to build somewhat of an audience and needs to continue in a stable timeslot – it has more longevity and potential in the future than Masterchef does – all reality has a shelf-life and fact is MC is 6 years old…….

  17. So they will be screening it directly after MKR and up against House Rules and The Voice?

    Last year it struggled and the finale just rated over 1m and I predict the same thing will happen again.

    Don’t the executives at Ten realise that viewers might be a bit tired of cooking shows so soon after MKR?

    And unless MCA has contestants that will bitch and moan and say all the food tastes like ‘shit’ – then it won’t rate.

    It’ll be interesting to see if it rates better than TBL or SYTYCD which have both been spectacular ratings failures this year.

  18. Masterchef in 2013 suffered from trying to imitate MKR too much – at least that was my impression.
    Hopefully this time, they have reverted back to a format more like the initial series in 2008.
    And I hope too that the 2014 contestants are far better than the majority of the 2013 ones, in terms of cooking ability.

  19. Shame about it not being on at 7.00 to give it half an hour lead in on the rest. TEN have to do things a little differently in order to cash in on what seems to be a return to grass roots cooking. They lost viewers last season with the stupid battle of the sexes.
    Give Modern Family the flick at 6.00pm put on the Project at 6.00 pm and Masterchef at 7.00pm.

    Ten listen to people. You are doing well in trying gain viewers trust with same shows on every week at same time etc, but your strength is your news, then let down by Modern Family

  20. No longer shown on Sundays? Mon to Thurs at 7:30 hmm.
    Can’t see this gaining viewers from last year and I think HR would do well right out of the gates unlike last year.

  24. Definitely looking forward to this. I just fear it will drown in that slot against the competition which would be a shame coz it’s got a lot more heart and soul that the last two seasons of MKR. We have zero interest in The Voice or House Rules so it ain’t no competition in this household.

  25. I am happy this is returning. Although I don’t think that it will rate that well I think that it will do better than anything else 10 could put on. At the start of the year I was watching MKR and the Block now it will be MCA and HR

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