Junior MasterChef on the menu in 2010
Oct 29
The Ten Network will next year launch a third version of the popular MasterChef franchise, indicating that Junior MasterChef will be arriving on Australian screens next year.
According to The Australian, the new children’s edition will arrive in the last quarter of 2010, following the screening of the second series of MasterChef Australia. Ten has already indicated that Celebrity MasterChef will not be returning next year.
Ten’s programming officer David Mott said that he envisaged a great deal of interest in the Junior MasterChef series.
“We’re very keen to do a junior version because it’s a great opportunity to look at the benefits of healthy eating and good food and produce and things like that and we think that’s really important,” he said.
The Australian indicated that the series will primarily involve nine- to twelve-year olds as contestants, but that “the hosts hope younger children will be featured as well”.
The news that Ten will be adding Junior MasterChef to the series from next year comes two months after the BBC indicated that it would reviving its own version of Junior Masterchef, which first aired in the 1990s. MasterChef Australia was based on the BBC’s Masterchef series, but with significant format changes.
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Cyril Washbrook October 29th 2009