With viewers tuning in for enjoyable meals and nostalgia whereas staying dwelling, ‘MasterChef Australia’ turned a champion of actuality tv throughout the COVID-19 lockdown final yr.
The subsequent season of the cooking present is in manufacturing in Melbourne, with producers saying there’s a “keener focus” on security measures amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“MasterChef Australia has all the time employed the best requirements of meals security and hygiene, and we now have a good keener concentrate on that. All suggestions outlined by Federal and State authorities well being authorities are being adopted,” producer Endemol Shine stated in an announcement to HuffPost Australia.
The manufacturing firm behind the present stated security measures that had been launched throughout filming final yr will proceed, together with “social distancing measures throughout each aspect of the manufacturing” in addition to “extra hand sanitising stations positioned across the set and workplaces”.
“On the set, adjustments have been made to the spacing of cooking benches and extra sinks have been added as devoted hand washing stations,” the assertion added. “Crew and contestants have restricted bodily interplay with one another, temperatures are checked each day, and masks are worn always when not on digicam.”
After becoming a member of ‘MasterChef’ final yr, judges Jock Zonfrillo, Melissa Leong and Andy Allen will return to the franchise in 2021 and can “style individually portioned meals” with no sharing of plates or cutlery.
Endemol Shine Australia’s assertion:
“MasterChef Australia has all the time employed the best requirements of meals security and hygiene, and we now have a good keener concentrate on that. All suggestions outlined by Federal and State authorities well being authorities are being adopted.
Security measures launched throughout Season 12 stay in place as we proceed to movie Season 13. These embrace, however usually are not restricted to social distancing measures throughout each aspect of the manufacturing and extra hand sanitising stations positioned across the set and workplaces.
On the set, adjustments have been made to the spacing of cooking benches and extra sinks have been added as devoted hand washing stations. Crew and contestants have restricted bodily interplay with one another, temperatures are checked each day, and masks are worn always when not on digicam.
Judges style individually portioned meals, and no cutlery or plates are shared.”
The Australian tv trade confronted new challenges in 2020 when it navigated capturing and manufacturing whereas adhering to COVID-19 security measures.
Whereas packages resembling ‘Residence and Away’, ‘Neighbours’, ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Actual Housewives of Melbourne’ briefly paused manufacturing throughout the pandemic, the cooking present managed to proceed filming with the protection measures in place.
The all-star season, ‘MasterChef Australia: Again To Win’, proved to be successful final yr, particularly amongst viewers who had met the contestants in earlier seasons.
Nonetheless, in 2021, the present will return to that includes dwelling cooks new to the celebrity recreation. That doesn’t imply the cooking requirements shall be any decrease. One of many judges has promised the dishes shall be even higher than final yr’s.
“I believe it’s going to be the most effective meals. Even with ‘Again to Win’,” decide Andy informed Who journal on the AACTA Awards in December after filming had simply begun.
“They’re uncooked, they’re very passionate, they’re very keen to study, and I believe that’s what I believe excites us essentially the most. It’s going to be a very good season,” he stated of the brand new contestants.
In an interview with TV Tonight, Andy once more praised the solid, saying it was rewarding to look at these “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” individuals develop “their type” of cooking that the ‘Again to Win’ stars had already established.
Fellow decide Melissa agreed, saying that “there’s some great expertise, and it units us up for an excellent yr”.
The 2020 season was simply as a lot in regards to the contestants’ touching life tales because it was in regards to the meals, and decide Jock hinted there’ll be extra nostalgia and heartfelt moments for audiences to attach with.
“All I’m going to say is, I believed we had some stunning people final yr. However 2021 is unbelievable,” he stated.
Emelia Jackson gained ‘MasterChef Australia: Again to Win’ in 2020, with Laura Sharrad ending second and Reynold Poernomo third.
The all-star season was adopted by ‘Junior MasterChef Australia’, the place 11-year-old Georgia took the profitable title.
Channel 10 is but to announce a premiere date for ‘MasterChef Australia’ 2021.
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