If the producers want to speed things up, next season there should only be two groups, group 1 judged by Pete and Manu, and group 2 by Colin and a guest chef. No gatecrashers.
Then why did it only happen in the last two cook-offs and not all the kitchen HQ challenges beforehand?
Because weâre getting to the pointy end of the competition?
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Then why did it only happen in the last two cook-offs and not all the kitchen HQ challenges beforehand?
[/quote]Because they just figured out it was a good trick.
No way! The instant restaurants are the best bits and highest rating. If they need to shorten the length of the show, it should be the back end which rates lower.
I find the instant resturants to be quite boring. I like the challenges that we are up to now
I womdered that with Zana and Gianniâs desert, and I thought I must have dozed off and missed it or something⌠thanks for letting me know it wasnât me!
Same. The problem now is that the challenges are just repeated over and over. Outside challenge cooking random meal - 2 people through to elimination. Etc.
Before there was so much more variety in the challenge rounds - and it was the instant restuarants that were boring and repetitive - same three courses, same nasty comments, same jokes, same conversation over and over again.
JBar keeps mentioning the instant restaurant rounds as being better eps because they rate higher, but thatâs only because theyâre at the start of the season when there is nothing else on TV and people have been starved of content over summer, and because a few dopeys tune in after seeing promos where Spice Girls attack the Meat Boys attack the Brunette Bitches. Yawn.
Like many reality TV series, My Kitchen Rules will have had its day before long.
It should at some point disappear like others that were once ratings juggernauts like Australian Idol and Backyard Blitz.
This is the 7th season now, and I agree that thereâs only so much you can do with an activity that has a somewhat limited scope like cooking. Audiences will go looking for something new sooner or later.
This year Nine dropped the ball at the start of the year but in previous years they had The Block and Ten have Iâm A Celeb which are both very competitive and hardly ânothing else on TVâ. MKR rated even higher in previous years and the instant restaurant rounds have always rated higher than the rest of the season.
Hardly âa fewâ when the show rated over 3 million across Australia. Just because you donât like it, doesnât mean the rest of the country doesnât.
OKâŚnot a few dopeysâŚalot of dopeys.
The first couple weeks when MKR is shown is always noncompetitive. Iâm a Celeb may do OK in the demos, but in total peopleâŚnot even on the same radar. My comment really went to the fact however that after 2 months of shit on TV, everyone is busting for something daily and familiar back on the screensâŚMKR fits that billâŚso many people tune in. Naturally people tune out over the next few months as people work back into their own routines.
In any case, I was responding to NRN11 who said that the instant restaurants are quite boring - I happen to agree. They are much more repetitive than the challenge episodes. That more people, alot, many, or millions tune in to the instant restaurant rounds says nothing as to the construction of each episode.
Just the popularity and thatâs my point. Sure, some people might like the challenges more than the instant restaurants but the ratings suggest the reverse is true. You can blame fatigue or coming back from non-ratings but I think theyâre just excuses.
Tonightâs challenge at Colinâs 4Fourteen restaurant had six teams cooking in two shifts: 11am-12.30pm and 1pm-2.30pm. That basically left less than 30 minutes for cleaning up the bench and tasting. How was that possible? I think it could just be filmed on consecutive days.
I would think independent people would do the cleaning up and getting the kitchen ready for the 2nd group.
As for eating the 3 dishes in 30 mins, they only eat enough to do a critique, not the whole meal.
It SHOULD be doable to do that and give 3 brief critiques in 30 minsâŚ
Sometimes I think you forget about the magic of tv.
Or its not 1-2:30??
I am sure the second shift was 1pm-2.30pm. The episode is now on Plus7, you can check the clock when the second group was cooking.
I came here expecting a one paragraph summary of the episode by Johnson, not discussion on a wall clock!
Chance to have your dish on Colinâs menu, and Laurenâs is the same as a dish he already has?
Teams apparently walked in blind to formulate a meal, but Lauren walks straight to her lamb, while the other contestants sort through the other stuff? No discussion between the teams as to who wants what? Knowing MKR squeezes every last drop of bitchiness out of everythingâŚno disagreement between the teams?
Obviously given their meals a couple days before (to practice). And obvious Lauren was given something set up to fail (eg. Colin: âsheâs cooking the easiest dish hereâ). Yeah, and one on your menu too.
Did anyone else notice that the background music was the same as what they use during the current Sunrise opener?
I always thought teams chose their own dishes?
That would be part of the skill set - being able work out what goes with what, and how to cook it etc.
I donât particularly like Carmine and Lauren - I hope they get knocked out tonight - but I think they were a bit unfortunate to have picked out something already on Colimâs menu, not knowing thatâs where they were going to cook.
In the past - yes I may have believed that. This season, I donât.
Somehow the contestants just magically end up doing a wide variety of dishes every time they cook. Someone does porkâŚor lambâŚor codâŚor salmon etc. Very rarely is there any double up.
When the meat isnât being switched up, then someone is doing JapaneseâŚor MoroccanâŚor MexicanâŚor Greek.
Too much of a neat variety every single episode. And besides, I doubt most of the teams would even come up with the combos / ideas that are plated. In addition to being given their selected meal a few days in advance, I reckon theyâre given coaching on how to plateâŚhow to add different textures and elementsâŚadd something unique.
Basically, the same way the X-Factor takes a contestant and allocates them a songâŚwith chosen lighting, choreography, staging etc. I think the same is done with MKR.
The show doesnât care who knows what goes with what. The contestants are just there for the personality. Just my thoughts anyway. It is becoming very formulaic.