My Kitchen Rules
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| Genre | Cooking |
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| Narrated by | Septimus Caton |
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| Ending theme | "The Pink Panther" by Christophe Beck (Series 1-3) |
| Composer(s) | Jay Stewart |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 281 (as of 6 February 2017) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Rikkie Proost |
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| Cinematography | Tim Hawkins |
| Running time | 60-120 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Seven Productions |
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| Original network | Seven Network |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 1 February 2010 – present |
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My Kitchen Rules is an Australian competitive cooking game show broadcast on the Seven Network since 2010. The series is produced by the team who created the Seven reality show My Restaurant Rules, and was put into production based on the success of Network Ten's MasterChef Australia. My Kitchen Rules was renewed by the Seven Network for a fifth series which began screening on 27 January 2014. Series 7 debuted on February 1, 2016.
Since it's first season, the program has continued to perform strongly in ratings, among the highest rated programs on Australian television, with finals consistently being among the 10 highest rated programs of the year.
The Australian show initially had teams of two contestants with pre-existing relationships—from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia—competing against each other to "transform an ordinary home into an instant restaurant complete with theme and table decorations for one pressure-cooker night." From 2011, the number of competitors grew as teams from Tasmania joined the show. A team from New Zealand took part only in the third series. In the fourth series, there were fifteen teams made up of two teams from each state, plus three additional teams—the gatecrashers—from New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. Season 5 has introduced a team from the Australian Capital Territory.
Applicable only during the first series, the show followed a sudden death format—where two teams will cook a three-course meal and the losing team will immediately be eliminated from winning the competition.
Grouped into two, the teams initially are to compete in an instant restaurant round. Each episode focuses on one team's day of cooking, setting up their instant restaurant and serving a three-course dinner—entrée, main, and dessert—for the judges and their opposing teams. Teams could only start cooking three hours before the other teams and judges arrive at their house. After the team served all three meals to the judges and their opposition, each opposing team must rate the total meal out of ten, then each main judge must rate each of the three courses separately out of ten. The lowest scoring team will be then at risk of elimination.
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