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Returning: MKR

Seven's revived cooking show sets the table for a Sunday week return.

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Seven has confirmed its revived cooking show, now-simply known as MKR, will return 7.00pm Sunday, 7 August.

Kicking off with Nigella Lawson and Manu Feildel, this pits the show directly against Nine’s Block: Tree Change season and 30 minutes ahead of The Masked Singer return on 10.

Produced by ITV Studios Australia, with Matt Preston as a third judge, Seven is going back to basics this season promising no bitchiness at the table.

It’s state versus state as the beloved competition gets back to its original, winning recipe: real people cooking real food in their own homes, serving treasured family recipes and love on a plate to the judges and their fellow contestants.

Each team will bring their A-game as they compete to win the coveted MKR crown, moving one step closer to realising their lifelong food dreams. Which team will impress the judges, score big with fellow contestants and triumph in the heat of the kitchen?

“We want to be on top of the leader board with a little fist pump, not like a big one,” says team Queensland’s fine diner, Kate.

Take a seat at the MKR table for a new era of velvety, juicy, spicy and deep-fried delights with a seal of approval from the queen of the kitchen, Nigella: “Deep fried. Those are words I always want to hear!”

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  1. Its my view this will fail to get the audience it once enjoyed. Nigella is a person who you like or hate, there is no in between. Most of us viewers have moved on from the bitchiness and with the abundance of streaming apps these days we can control our viewing habits.

  2. Interesting that Matt Preston is the third judge…I don’t watch 7, so I’m not aware of the latest promos, but it seems odd that he seems to not feature in any of the marketing. I guess Gary Mehigan got released from his contract after the failed Plate of Origin, but they kept Matt…

  4. Seven has also finally scheduled the Ipcress Files for after the games. Unfortunately the trailer looks more Austin Powers than Len Deighton. Yet another novel butchered for TV.

  5. I hope they concentrate on the cooking this time around and don’t try to introduce any stupid reality show storylines. My mother and I used to watch it until they showed a bit before one of the commercial breaks showing one of the contestants twirling a dagger and implying that he was going to use it on another of the contestants. My mother and I looked at each other in horror before I changed the channel and we never watched it again.

  6. I was worried this was going to happen!! Clearly Seven don’t give a damn about the Commonwealth Games as the host broadcaster and aren’t fully committed to it. The games don’t finish until the Monday of that week (technically Tuesday morning) so why should they be dumped to a multi channel in prime time just for some reality show. They should have faith that people will watch it whenever it starts and not just be dictated to by their rival networks. This clearly says they don’t…

    2. So you think that Channel 7 bought the games other than to relaunch MKR on the back of it? Do you really think they would let The Block run in clean air for a week so that they could so the air the final of the lawn bowls on Seven? Record one and watch the other, if it is even a problem.

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