The episode is airing tonight. The SCG was actually one of three locations in Sydney (the other two were Alexandria Fire Station and Eveleigh construction site) used for the outdoor challenge on the same day, where eight teams were split into three groups cooking for different people (NSW Blues and Breakers cricket team members, firefighters and construction workers).
EDIT: why did it take more than an hour to film the judges’ critiques? Based on the time shown at the SCG clock tower, the teams arrived at 5.05pm but Pete and Colin did not reveal the best and worst team until around 6.10pm.
I’d say it’s true. They alluded to it in an interview in TV Week, a few weeks ago. I think it was Victor who said they got together while the show was filming.
No, she said she had separated from her husband before the show started. I’d say that was a show producer who had run after Victor minutes earlier.
The intro to the ultimate instant restaurants said “double the pleasure, triple the pain”. Does it mean three teams would be eliminated at the end of the round?
Also, why did the producers blur the use by dates on packaged meat and vegetables when Matt and Luke visited their local Coles supermarket?
It isn’t too hard to work out when tonight’s episode was filmed. The cooking challenge at the SCG took place on October 31 last year according to Pete Evans’ Instagram post, so the sudden cook-off and then ultimate instant restaurants would have been filmed in November.
Austin said in an interview last week it’s MKR meets MAFS.
It was very obvious in last night’s episode that all the teams had suspicions of what was going on between Piper and Victor… As usual clever editing made it even more dramatic leading to the climax of revelations for tonight’s episode.
According to sources close to Seven’s programming and sales department, the atmosphere is grim as the network faces the very real possibility that its most successful show for a decade has finally run out of steam.
“It’s nothing short of a disaster,” said one TV source, who claims Seven executives were scrambling for ways to lure back viewers this season, even re-editing MKR footage to emphasise interpersonal relationships. (It was a tactic that didn’t work.)
Back to the drawing board. MKR has been, compared to previous years, a complete and utter failure that will only fall further. Best way to do it is to move it out to near The Block and get something fresh, buzz-creating and new. They should’ve got Masked Singer but its all too late. What other shows can they try? MKR isn’t going to cut it anymore.
It has been acknowledged. I don’t see what you’re trying to achieve by repeating the same point every few days. Seven are not going to move it without having a guaranteed hit to replace it and I see nothing that they’ve tried in recent years that has come anywhere close.
TVNZ2 in New Zealand will show the MKR 10th anniversary special next Sunday (April 14) at 7.30pm, ahead of the 10th season premiere next Monday (April 15) at 7.30pm.
The producers were up to its old tricks again, not revealing guest teams score on air at the end of the final ultimate instant restaurant, forcing viewers to go to MKR website late tonight (after the episode has finished in WA) to find the scoring breakdown.
Anyway, the finals starts next week, with the seven remaining teams fighting for four semi final spots. Based on the latest schedule, I think the four semi final teams will be decided on Easter Monday (April 22), with semi finals on April 23-24 and the grand final on Sunday, April 28.
EDIT 14/4: Seven’s schedule confirms semi finals on Easter Monday and Tuesday.
TVNZ2 delayed the premiere of it in NZ so as not to compete with MAFS Au on Three (which finishes on Thursday). Usually MKR premieres late Feb/March in NZ.
Josh presented everyone with personalised gifts and Piper wasn’t pumped about Pinocchio . Despite serving an entrée Manu said is the best dish he’s had in 10 years of MKR, the rest of Andy & Ruby’s menu was surprisingly “meh”. But they still outscored Veronica & Piper and the beauty queens exit the competition with heads held high and friendship (and friendship bracelets) intact!
The finals are here! The MKR Restaurant is open for business but it’s not all rave reviews on opening night. Which team will shine and score a golden ticket straight to the Semi-Finals?
Some of the guests I notice from Monday’s VIP episode (based on the promos) include Curtis Stone, Jamie Durie, Sally Pearson, Leisel Jones and Nova 969’s Michael “Wippa” Wipfli.
Seven is turning to radical measures to save My Kitchen Rules , after its demolition by Nine’s Married At First Sight ratings juggernaut.
Diary is now very reliably informed that the original version of MKR , hosted by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel, will next year be moved far away from going head-to-head against MAFS — possibly to as late as the second half of 2020.
Production of the original version of the show. … has been shifted back to November this year.
Plus this regarding the MKR series to be shown later this year.
Seven is also super-sizing a second version of the show, nicknamed MKR 2.0 : which is being hosted by another celebrity chef, Colin Fassnidge, who is being styled as a swearing Gordon Ramsay -type figure.
“Cocktail parties” and character-based tensions will apparently feature much more prominently in this version of the show, which will now be shot for 10 weeks from July.
Contestants could even be made to bunk in together in a mansion-like set up…
But word around Seven now is that if MKR 2.0 generates the kind of drama and buzz Seven are looking for, it could even compete head-to-head with MAFS at the start of 2020.
