Fox announced today that it has ordered a second season of Gordon Ramsay’s newest series, Masterchef. The reality show is the No. 1 new program of the summer among adults 18-49. “Gordon Ramsay is an incredible talent and the biggest culinary star on television today, so we’re very happy to have Gordon and Masterchef back for another season on Fox,” said Mike Darnell, Fox’s president of alternative programming, in a statement. “Masterchef has resonated with viewers this summer, and we look forward to seeing where Gordon takes the show in Season Two.”
“It’s amazing and refreshing to see how much passion and raw talent there is from amateur home cooks across America,” added Ramsay. “It’s extraordinary the amount of energy and excitement the show brought in Season One, and I’m thrilled to be back at Fox for a second season.”
The first season finale of the show will air Sept. 15, when the remaining four home cooks go head-to-head and battle it out to become the Masterchef. The winner will earn the title of America’s Best Home Cook and win $250,000 and a cookbook-publishing deal.
This show started off with waaaaay too many “sob stories,” and “this means so much to mean” blubbering. I ended up giving up on it after the cut to the Top 14. Maybe they’ll refine it and improve it for the second season, but it just never caught on with me and I usually watch the food competition shows. Ramsay as a “good guy” just seems like something from “Bizarro world.”
Oops, durn typos. That should have read, “this means so much to me,” not “…to mean.” Oy.
The sobs stories were annoying for me too but the show has gotten meaner in the last few weeks. As they get closer and closer to the finals the judges expect way more out of the contestants now and really trash them when they fail. Last week one cook had their food thrown straight into a trash can.