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MasterChef

1990–2001 · 11 seasons

A gentle, low-stakes cooking competition where amateur cooks face weekly challenges and judges offer blunt but fair feedback.

Created by
Franc Roddam
Genres
Reality
Starring
Gary Rhodes, Loyd Grossman, Raymond Blanc
Overview
MasterChef is a BBC television competitive cooking show. It initially ran from 1990 to 2001 and was later revived in a different format known as MasterChef Goes Large from 2005 onwards. In 2008, the "Goes Large" part of the name was dropped, but the format remains identical. The revamped format was devised by Franc Roddam and John Silver with Karen Ross producing. The series now appears in four versions: the main MasterChef series, MasterChef: The Professionals for working chefs, Celebrity MasterChef, and Junior MasterChef, for 9-to-12-year-olds. The format has been reproduced around the world in a large number of international versions.

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Created by
Franc Roddam
Genres
Reality
Starring
Gary Rhodes, Loyd Grossman, Raymond Blanc
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • work
  • identity
  • class
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Genres
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Created by
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Starring
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Length
11 seasons, 143 episodes, 30 min each
Network
BBC One
Languages
English

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