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Tom Parker Bowles has learned of Tim Tams & bogans, while filming Nine's new food series.

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Last night Nine held its launch for upcoming cooking show The Hot Plate at Estelle restaurant in Northcote, one of judge Scott Pickett’s three venues.

He was joined by fellow judge, Tom Parker Bowles, Victorian contestants Loz and Nols with Alicia Loxley hosting the event.

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Also in attendance were Nine’s Managing Director of Programming and Production Andrew Backwell, executive producer Courtney Gibson, GTV managing director Ian Paterson, GTV Head of Production Tim Cleary,  Head of Publicity Victoria Buchan, Head of GTV Publicity Michelle Stamper and publicists including Terry Stuart and David Brown.

UK food critic Tom Parker Bowles, son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, recounted how he learned some quintessential Aussie language from Scott Pickett during filming.

“Chicken parmas, Chicken Twisties, Tim Tams, servos, tradies, and can we say bogans?” he recalled.

“But it was the best of Australia. You assume that Australia and Britain are two countries -we have the same language the same sense of humour, the same Queen.”

“She might be your mum in ten years!” Pickett suggested.

“But we have different culture so Scotty was there for me as a judge to take me through everything,” Parker Bowles continued.  “Not quite lead me by the hand, that would be too romantic. But I had to know all these things. I couldn’t just come in as a classic British person knowing it all.”

Victorian contestants ‘Loz and Nols’ who own Wings and Fins Restaurant beside an airstrip and Westernport Bay in Tooradin, are hoping the show will lift their profile.

“It was a good opportunity because a lot of people don’t know where Wings and Fins are, located at Tooradin airfield. Also we got some great coaching from (Pickett & Parker Bowles). It was absolutely fantastic. We were a good restaurant but now we’re a great restaurant,” they said.

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The Hot Plate is also an interesting gamble for Nine because it is a “paper format,” untried in any other market -a rarity on Nine’s schedule.

Nine is yet to reveal an airdate for the series, but the chatter in the room was it would likely wait until MasterChef had concluded.

Photos: Les O’Rourke

 

17 Responses

  1. Ahhhh how I miss the days when networks came up with original programs rather than copy each other. The last thing Australia needs is more cooking shows. If 7 & 9 screen these shows at the same time, Ten is likely to be the big winner, just like it was with House Rules vs Reno Rumble.

  2. agree, this looks like a crappy imitation of other cooking shows. What i find most bizarre about it is how the chef in the white looks so much like Manu from MKR! Seems like too much of a likeness to be a co-incidence.

  3. MasterChef is brilliant this year, it just keeps getting better and better. Rather than copy this show or copy a bad copy (MKR) why not put your creative brains together and come up with something new?

  5. Yup, I’ll be avoiding this one – it just looks awful. I used to love MKR until their 4th season became all about caricatures selling gossip magazines and not cooking ability so now I only watch Masterchef in the cooking genre. It still manages great narrative with a focus on ability without lowering standards.

  6. Just don’t know which show I am going to avoid – first. Hotplate and Restaurant Revolution are just rip offs of MKR which was a rip off of MCA.

    The only difference between MCA and these other cooking shows is that MCA has yet to have any contestant bitch and whinge about the other contestants.

    MKR exploited this to the hilt and obviously it worked cos it rated through the roof. But after the nice and lovely MCA – are viewers desperate for two cooking shows that will give us bitching and whingeing again.

    And Craig77 – I agree with you. The Hotplate promos have a gay contestant that is the stereotype of the bitchy OTT gay guy. Compare this to the gay contestant John on MCA. The producers focused on his ‘cooking’ abilities and not his ‘gayness’.

    And don’t get me started on how the ethnic and Asian contestants are being portrayed. Those promos suggest ‘Mind your…

  9. Watching the 2 minute ‘sneak peak’ of this had me starting to lose my will to live.
    This reeks of being an MKR rip-off and I predict will tank.
    Oh, and memo realty TV – not all gay men are bitchy!

  11. think this show is going to be great and work well for 9, ok it may have a bit of a MKR feel but if 9 can do better job than why not- the casting looks good and the commercials for it has made me laugh- the Italian Mother looks interesting to watch.

    1. I’ve never been a fan of Masterchef or MKR, but I have been enjoying the commercials for Hot Plate. They appear to have some good characters. I’ll take a look when it comes on, can’t promise I’ll stay, as I hate the way Aussie commercial tv draws out the reality shows.

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