MasterChef: The Professionals
| MasterChef: The Professionals | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cooking |
| Written by | Franc Roddam |
| Judges | Gregg Wallace Monica Galetti (2009–) Marcus Wareing (2014–) Michel Roux Jr. (2008–14) |
| Narrated by |
India Fisher (2008–10) Sean Pertwee (2011–) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 9 (aired to date) |
| No. of episodes | 140 (inc. 2 specials to date) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Franc Roddam Elisabeth Murdoch Carla-Maria Lawson |
| Running time | 30–60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Shine Television |
| Distributor | Ziji Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 25 August 2008 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | MasterChef |
| External links | |
| Website | |
MasterChef: The Professionals is a BBC television competitive cooking show aired on BBC Two. It is a spin-off from the main MasterChef series, for professional working chefs. Introduced in 2008, Gregg Wallace and India Fisher reprised their roles as co-judge and voiceover respectively. MasterChef judge John Torode was replaced by Michel Roux Jr., a two-Michelin-star chef, assisted, from 2009, by his sous-chef Monica Galetti. Since 2011, Sean Pertwee has taken over Fisher's role as voiceover.
On 11 March 2014, it was announced that Roux Jr had left the show due to "a conflict in commercial interests". Three months later his replacement was announced as Marcus Wareing.
Typically, the show runs for seven weeks from early November until Christmas week, with four episodes per week, although the precise number of shows, number of contestants, the running order and nature of the challenges and the number of chefs eliminated at each round varies greatly from series to series. There are typically four weeks of "heats" (the final show of each heat week being a quarter final), a "knockout" week, a semi-final week and a finals week. Below is a synopsis of a typical series:
Each heat week begins with six chefs. The three remaining chefs then participate in the quarter final at the end of that week.
Typically 8-10 chefs are left by this stage. The precise challenges have varied over the series.
Derek Johnstone won the first series on 19 September 2008, and went on to take a job with Michel Roux Jr at Le Gavroche restaurant in London.
The second series began on 14 September 2009 at 8:30 pm on BBC2 and was won by Steve Groves on 22 October 2009. On 6 June 2010 the series was awarded a BAFTA in the Features category at the British Academy Television Awards 2010, fending off competition from The Choir, James May's Toy Stories and Heston's Feasts.
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