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MasterChef is a television cooking game show franchise, started with Masterchef". The same MasterChef logo is used around the world. The show has expanded to many versions in other countries.

International adaptations

Country	Name	Host(s)	Judges	Network	Air Dates/Premiere
Australia	MasterChef Australia Masterchef Australia MasterChef Australia is a Logie award winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by FremantleMedia Australia and screens on Network Ten. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston serve as...	Sarah Wilson Sarah Wilson Sarah Wilson was an English impostor who took a role of nonexistent sister of Queen Charlotte. How much of the tale is true is unclear.Sarah Wilson was born in Staffordshire and at the age of 16 moved to London... (2009) Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The... George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece...	Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The... George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece... Matt Preston Matt Preston Matt Preston is a British-Australian food journalist and restaurant critic. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia and his weekly food column in the Herald Sun 'Taste' supplement... Donna Hay Donna Hay Donna Hay is an Australian food stylist, author, and magazine editor.She is best known as the author of 14 bestselling cookbooks, including Off the Shelf, Modern Classics , The Instant Cook, Christmas, and Instant Entertaining. Selling over 3 million copies worldwide, her books are known for their... (Guest Judge, 2010) Matt Moran Matt Moran Matthew Moran,commonly known as Matt Moran, is an Australian chef also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows.- Early childhood and education :... (Guest Judge, 2011)	Network Ten Network Ten Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...	27 April 2009 – present
	Celebrity MasterChef Australia Celebrity MasterChef Australia Celebrity MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show. It is spin-off of MasterChef Australia, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features celebrity contestants...	George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece... Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The...	Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The... George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece... Matt Preston Matt Preston Matt Preston is a British-Australian food journalist and restaurant critic. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia and his weekly food column in the Herald Sun 'Taste' supplement...		30 September 2009 – 25 November 2009 (Season 1)
	Junior MasterChef Australia Junior MasterChef Australia Junior MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Australia, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features contestants aged 8 to 12. The first season of the show began production in July 2010 and included 50 contestants...	George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece... Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The...	Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan is an English chef, restaurateur and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia.Mehigan also co-hosts two shows on Australia's Lifestyle Food Channel, Good Chef, Bad Chef, and Boy's Weekend and will be appearing at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show.Mehigan trained at The... George Calombaris George Calombaris George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece... Matt Preston Matt Preston Matt Preston is a British-Australian food journalist and restaurant critic. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia and his weekly food column in the Herald Sun 'Taste' supplement... (2010) Anna Gare Anna Gare Anna Gare is an Australian musician and television personality. She is one of four judges on Channel Ten's reality television program, Junior MasterChef Australia, although she is neither a formally trained chef nor trained cook.-Biography:... Matt Moran Matt Moran Matthew Moran,commonly known as Matt Moran, is an Australian chef also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows.- Early childhood and education :... (2011-present)		12 September 2010 – present
Belgium	MasterChef	Dina Tersago Dina Tersago Dina Tersago was Miss Belgium 2001 and her country's representative at both Miss Universe 2001 and Miss World 2001.... ?	Wout Bru Jean-Paul Perez	vtm VTM The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...	28 June – 29 July 2010 (Season 1) 4 July 2011 – 18 August 2011 (Season 2)
Independent State of Croatia	MasterChef Hrvatska MasterChef Croatia MasterChef Croatia is a Croatian competitive reality television cooking show based on the original British version of MasterChef. The first episode aired on March 21st 2011 on Nova TV...	Jasna Nanut	Tomislav Gretić Mate Janković Radovan Marčić	Nova TV Nova TV Nova TV is a Croatian commercial television network launched in November 2000. It was the first commercial television network with national concession in this country and since 2004 it is fully owned by the Central European Media Enterprises.- Overview :...	21 March – 17 June 2011
Denmark	Masterchef Denmark	?	Thomas Herman Henrik-Yde-Andersen Anders Aagaard	TV3 TV3 (Denmark) TV3 Denmark is a Danish television station.TV3 is one of the channels owned by the Viasat Corporation. The sister channel is TV3+. The channels shows a lot of American and British shows, such as: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NCIS, Las Vegas, Bones, Two And A Half Men, Prison Break, American Idol...	5 September 2011
Finland	MasterChef Suomi	Mikko Silvennoinen	Sikke Sumari Tom Björck Risto Mikkola	Nelonen Nelonen Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...	18 January – 5 April 2011
Early Modern France	MasterChef	Carole Rousseau	Frédéric Anton Yves Camdeborde Sebastian Demoran	TF1 TF1 TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...	19 August 2010 – present
Germany	Deutschlands Meisterkoch MasterChef Germany MasterChef Germany is a German cooking competition television show that was broadcast in 2010 by Sat.1. It is based on the original UK show MasterChef. The winner of the first season was Jessica from Saarbrücken.... (MasterChef Germany)	No host	Tim Raue Thomas Jaumann Nelson Müller	Sat.1 Sat.1 Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....	27 August – 16 October 2010 (Season 1)
Greece	MasterChef Greece MasterChef Greece MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show. It is an adaptation of the British show MasterChef. The first season premiered in October 3, 2010 and ended on December 28, 2010...	Eugenia Manolidou (Season 1) Maria Synatsaki (Season 2)	Yiannis Loukakos Lefteris Lazarou Dimitris Skarmoutsos	Mega Channel Mega Channel Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...	3 October – 28 December 2010 (Season 1) January 2012 (Season 2)
Greece	Junior MasterChef Greece Junior MasterChef Greece Junior MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show. It is an adaptation of the Australian show Junior MasterChef Australia. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Greece, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features contestants aged 8 to 12. The first season of the show...	Maria Mpekatorou	Yiannis Loukakos Lefteris Lazarou Dimitris Skarmoutsos		November 2011
India	MasterChef India MasterChef India MasterChef India is a Indian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by FremantleMedia and screens on Star Plus. Actor Akshay Kumar Restaurateur and chef Vikas Khanna, chef Ajay Chopra and chef Kunal Kapoor serve as the show's main judges...	Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",... (also judge's) Vikas Khanna Vikas Khanna Vikas Khanna is an award winning Michelin Starred Indian chef, restaurateur, food writer, filmmaker, humanitarian and the host of the TV Show MasterChef India . He is based in New York City.- Life and career :... (also judge's for Season 2)	Chef Ajay Chopra Chef Kunal Kapoor	Star Plus STAR Plus STAR Plus is a Hindi language general entertainment television channel based in India. The channel is part of the STAR TV network's bouquet of channels...	16 October – 25 December 2010 (Season 1) 22 October – 25 December 2011 (Season 2)
Indonesia	MasterChef Indonesia MasterChef Indonesia MasterChef Indonesia is a cooking game show based on MasterChef . The original show is also aired in other countries, such as USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Croatia, Greece, Malaysia, England, and Sweden. The show airs on RCTI every Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 PM local time.-Contestants:-...	No host	Vindex Tengker Rinrin Marinka Juna Rorimpandey	RCTI RCTI RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs...	1 May – 21 August 2011 (Season 1) September 2012 (Season 2)
Republic of Ireland	Masterchef Ireland MasterChef Ireland MasterChef Ireland is a RTÉ television cooking game show based on the international format created by Franc Roddam.-Contestants:Series OneMary CarneyNadia MathiasenMike CurranMandy ScottGrantConal MarkeyBridin CareyClare Anne O'Keefe...	Lorraine Pilkington Lorraine Pilkington Lorraine Pilkington is an Irish actress from Dublin, who is best known for her role as Katrina Finlay on Monarch of the Glen. Trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Pilkington began her career at the age of 15 when she appeared in The Miracle directed by Neil Jordan. She appeared onstage in the... (narrator)	Dylan McGrath Dylan McGrath Dylan McGrath is an award-winning Irish celebrity chef. He was the owner of the now defunct Michelin star Mint Restaurant in Dublin. He recently opened 'Rustic Stone Restaurant by Dylan McGrath' on Georges Street in Dublin's City Centre and has been announced by RTÉ One as the Judge on the new... Nick Munier Nick Munier Nick Munier is best known as the maitre d' of ITV's prime-time reality show Hell's Kitchen. He is also co-owner of Pichet restaurant in Dublin's Trinity Lane...	RTÉ TWO RTÉ Two RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...	8 September – 13 October 2011 (Series 1)
Israel	מאסטר שף MasterChef Israel MasterChef Israel MasterChef Israel is a reality cooking competition show that first debuted on October 14, 2010 on Channel 2 . It is based on the British reality cooking competition show of the same name...	Haim Cohen (also judge's)	Eyal Shani Micahl Anski Yonatan Roshfeld Rafi Adar (Season 1)	Channel 2 Channel 2 (Israel) Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on... Keshet Keshet (TV) Keshet Broadcasting or Keshet is a media group and leading television program maker licensed in Israel. Keshet operates under the auspices of the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority . It is one of two operators that have run the main Israeli commercial television channel, Channel 2, since 1993,...	14 October 2010 – present
Italy	MasterChef Italia	No host	Bruno Barbieri Joe Bastianich Carlo Cracco	Cielo Cielo Cielo may refer to:* César Cielo, a Brazilian freestyle swimmer* Cielo , a distributor and manufacturer of frozen yogurt* Cielo , a supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory...	21 September 2011
Malaysia	MasterChef Malaysia MasterChef Malaysia MasterChef Malaysia is a cooking show like the other MasterChef shows in other countries, such as USA, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia , Greece, India, Sweden, Indonesia and Great Britain. The show will be aired for the upcoming first season on Astro Ria....	Moh Johari Edrus, (Chef Jo) Mohd. Nadzri Redzuawan, (Chef Riz) Zubir Md. Zain, (Chef Zubir)	Moh Johari Edrus, (Chef Jo) Mohd. Nadzri Redzuawan, (Chef Riz) Zubir Md. Zain, (Chef Zubir) Yahaya Hassan, (Chef Yahaya) Priya Menon, (Chef Priya)	Astro Ria Astro Ria Astro Ria is a Malaysian 24 hour television network broadcast on the Astro satellite television service. It was one of the first 22 channels to commence broadcast on Astro in 1996.Programs on the network include Malay dramas, films and reality shows....	22 October 2011
Netherlands	MasterChef	Renate Verbaan	Alain Caron Peter Lute	Net 5 NET 5 NET 5 is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands owned by Sanoma and Talpa Holding . Other channels of the group in the Netherlands are SBS6 and Veronica.- History :...	26 September 2010 – present
Netherlands	Junior MasterChef	Alain Caron & Peter Lute	Alain Caron Peter Lute		28 November 2011 - present
New Zealand	MasterChef New Zealand MasterChef New Zealand MasterChef New Zealand is a New Zealand competitive reality television cooking show based on the original British version of Masterchef.The first episode aired on 3 February 2010 at 7:30pm on TV ONE...	No Host	Ray McVinnie Josh Emett Simon Gault Ross Burden (Season 1)	TV One	3 February 2010 – present
Norway	Masterchef Norge	Jenny Skavlan	Eyvind Hellstrøm Jan Vardøen Tom Victor Gausdal	TV3 TV3 (Norway) TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...	16 March 2010
Peru	MasterChef Perú	Gastón Acurio Gaston Acurio Gastón Acurio Jaramillo is a Peruvian chef and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine. He is owner of international restaurants and author of several books...	Astrid Gutsche Mitsuharu "Mich" Tsumura Renato Peralta	América Televisión America Television America Television , better known as America TV, is a Peruvian television network affiliated with Televisa of Mexico. It was founded on December 15, 1958 by Antonio Umbert F., Nicanor Gonzalez V., and Avelino Aramburu. The network belongs to the Plural TV group formed by the daily newspapers El...	28 August 2011
Philippines	Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition is a Philippine competitive cooking game show adapted out of the Australian spin-off show Junior MasterChef, in turn was based on MasterChef, featuring Filipino contestants aged 8 to 12. It is currently broadcast on ABS-CBN starting with a pre-series primer in August...	Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo	Fern Aracama Rolando Laudico JP Anglo	ABS-CBN ABS-CBN ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...	27 August 2011 – present
Philippines	MasterChef Pinoy Edition MasterChef Pinoy Edition MasterChef Pinoy Edition is a Philippine competitive cooking game show featuring Filipino contestants from ages 18 to 50 years old. It is an adaptation of the British show MasterChef. Auditions are still being held nationwide.-Audition:...	Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo	Fern Aracama Rolando Laudico JP Anglo		TBA 2012
Portugal	MasterChef	Sílvia Alberto	Justa Nobre Ljubomir Stanisic Chef Cordeiro	RTP1	9 July 2011
Kingdom of Romania	MasterChef Romania	TBA	Florin Dumitrescu Scarlatescu Catalin Bontea Sorin	ProTV	2012
Sweden	Sveriges mästerkock	No host	Leif Mannerström Marcus Aujalay Per Morberg Per Morberg Per Henrik Morberg is a Swedish actor, chef and news presenter.-Biography:...	TV4	12 January 2011 – present
Turkey	MasterChef Türkiye	Vural Özkandan	Batuhan Zeynioğlu Piatti Murat Bozok Erol Kaynar	Show TV Show TV SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...	Spring 2010
Ukraine	МастерШеф MasterChef	Hector Jimenez-Bravo Mykola Tischenko Anfisa Chehova		STB (Channel) STB (Channel) STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...	31 August 2011
United Kingdom (original country)	MasterChef	Revived Series: Narrator: India Fisher India Fisher India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives....	Original series: Loyd Grossman Loyd Grossman Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :... (1990–2000) Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes OBE is an English restaurateur, cookery writer, and chef, known for his love of British cuisine and distinctive spiked hair style .... (2001) Revived series: Gregg Wallace Gregg Wallace Gregg Allan Wallace is an English writer, media personality and former greengrocer, costermonger and farmer. He is probably best known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC Two and BBC One along with John Torode, where he is referred to as an... (2005–present) John Torode John Torode John Torode is an Australian-born British celebrity chef specialising in Australasian food. He runs Smiths of Smithfield and several other restaurants scattered throughout London's Smithfield market.... (2005–present)	BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution... BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...	Original series: 2 July 1990 – 3 July 2001 (Series 1–11) Revived series: 21 February 2005 – present
	Celebrity MasterChef	Narrator: India Fisher India Fisher India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives....	Gregg Wallace Gregg Wallace Gregg Allan Wallace is an English writer, media personality and former greengrocer, costermonger and farmer. He is probably best known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC Two and BBC One along with John Torode, where he is referred to as an... John Torode John Torode John Torode is an Australian-born British celebrity chef specialising in Australasian food. He runs Smiths of Smithfield and several other restaurants scattered throughout London's Smithfield market....	BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...	11 September 2006 – present
	MasterChef: The Professionals	Narrated by: India Fisher India Fisher India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives.... (2008–2010) Sean Pertwee Sean Pertwee Sean Pertwee is an English actor known for his television, film and voice-over work.-Career:In the early 80s, he auditioned for a place at the Surrey County Youth Theatre where he was cast as Captain Fitzpatrick in the play Tom Jones, based on the novel by Henry Fielding... (2011)	Gregg Wallace Gregg Wallace Gregg Allan Wallace is an English writer, media personality and former greengrocer, costermonger and farmer. He is probably best known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC Two and BBC One along with John Torode, where he is referred to as an... Michel Roux, Jr.	BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...	25 August 2008 – present
	Junior MasterChef Junior MasterChef Junior MasterChef is a British game show in which ten to twelve year olds must compete to be crowned Junior MasterChef. It began on BBC One on 10 May 2010. it is a spin-off from the television series MasterChef...	Lloyd Grossman		BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...	14 August 1994 – 1 August 1999 (Series 1–5)
		Narrator: India Fisher India Fisher India Fisher is a British actress born in 1974. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives....	John Torode John Torode John Torode is an Australian-born British celebrity chef specialising in Australasian food. He runs Smiths of Smithfield and several other restaurants scattered throughout London's Smithfield market.... Nadia Sawalha Nadia Sawalha Nadia Sawalha is an English actress and television presenter.Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress...	CBBC CBBC CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14... / BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...	10–29 May 2010 (New version)
United States	MasterChef USA MasterChef USA MasterChef is a 2010 American competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs. It is co-hosted and co-produced by Gordon Ramsay. Produced by Reveille Productions, it first debuted on July 27, 2010 at 9 pm ET/PT on the Fox Television Network, following one of Ramsay's other...	Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes OBE is an English restaurateur, cookery writer, and chef, known for his love of British cuisine and distinctive spiked hair style ....	two (various) celebrity judges per challenge	PBS Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....	1 April – 24 June 2000 (Season 1) 7 April – 30 June 2001 (Season 2)
United States	MasterChef	Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars....	Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay, OBE is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 13 Michelin stars.... Joe Bastianich Graham Elliot Graham Elliot Graham Elliot Bowles , known professionally as Graham Elliot, is a Chicago, Illinois-based chef.-Personal life:Elliot was born in Seattle, Washington, as a self-described "Navy brat". He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and started out in the food business as a dishwasher and bus boy for...	Fox Fox Broadcasting Company Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...	27 July 2010 – present

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