I saw this comment on Twitter:
Masterchef will now go out like Top Gear…
The hosts were the glue of the show.
Without them it will fall apart.
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They are the judges, not the hosts?, and i don’t think the show will “fall apart” with new judges.
People don’t like change but will get used to it I think, as long as the show stays the same format as it has before.
This years season was one of the lowest rated ever, averaging in the 600ks. The show was getting stale and needed a change. I can’t see it doing any worse next year.
Up to this year and excluding season 5 where they messed with the format too much, Masterchef rated very well and I would say was highly profitable for Ten when you take into account sales overseas in territories such as India and the UK where the show was very popular.
But who gets the revenue from the overseas sales? I would love to see the evidence of it being so profitable. Because there was a time when it cost close to a million dollars and episode to produce.
It wouldn’t be going into a 12th season if it wasn’t still making a profit for Ten.
Endemol Shine, the production company and rights holder.
No but if it were really profitable how it was they wouldn’t have killed the golden goose as someone put it. 10 would have paid the judges and not messed with the format.
Except that the show already had low ratings this year so Ten felt that giving the judges a pay rise was not warranted. George, Gary and Matt got too greedy and I am glad they are gone.
If next years season is a all star season with former contestants over the past eleven series returning. What will happen to all the people who applyed to be on next years season then?
My point exactly if you read the posts… if it were a golden goose they wouldn’t have changed it up…
And like I said it was a golden goose up until this year.
And I wasn’t talking about previous years shows. The comment I was replying to was about 10 ruining a golden goose and how it was really profitable… Perhaps read all the comments first.
I have read all the comments. It wouldn’t be continuing if it wasn’t producing a profit for Ten and before this year the show had really good ratings. Maybe we should stop now this conversation is going around in circles.
Yeah I think this conversation should stop. But you aren’t understand the jist of the conversation. My conversation was in relation to the golden goose comment. Which I am asking if is actually true. Because if the show was really making that much of a profit they wouldn’t get rid of the judges or shake up the format. My comment wasn’t just is it making a profit. Of course it is, and even if it wasn’t it gives shows around it a pick up etc. My comment was based around the golden goose comment which you haven’t really understood from what I can see.
You are glad they’re gone because you thought their time was up / just didn’t like them anymore? Or purely because of the rumoured pay dispute?
Because if the latter that’s a bit unfair, it’s been very sketchy and mixed reporting as to what went down, plus Matt and Gary are as friendly as they come, never did anything to alienate or get media talking negative at all (okay, there was the Marco Pierre White thing, but c’mon)
They won’t be cast. Obviously.
Possibly the quality of the applicants is down so they think it’s best to take a year break from normal casting so they have a bigger pool to choose from the following year. Shows like X Factor in the UK are doing the same, taking a year off normal contestants (as the talent pool is weakening) and doing a Celeb X factor this year which means by the time the next normal season comes around it would have been 2 years and there is probably a bigger pool of people to choose from.
I just read the comments on Twitter from the show’s fans in Britain regarding the new judges. It’s roughly 50-50: half said they would not watch again, the other half said they wanted to give the judges a chance.
I think overseas is where it might take a hit with new judges as they seem to have a bit of a fanbase. However in Australia it did need a shake up and some fresh new faces so they’ve done the right thing.
In all honesty I don’t know anything about these judges apart from Andy and I think it’s great to have a successful winner on there. I’m also just happy to see a female on there regardless of who it is.
Reckon Melissa will be a great judge - loved her personality when she did The Chef’s Line on SBS
I’m not familiar with Melissa, but just judging by the interviews she had done so far I think she brings a fresh face and a bit of a quirky personality to the show - also good that she has had prior TV experience hosting a show and can bring a different food perspective from Andy & Jock.