Mediaset España will bet on a cooking talent show next season. And it will do so with the help of Shine Iberia (Banijay Iberia), the producer of all versions of MasterChef that since 2013 has achieved large audiences on RTVE’s La 1. This time it is Next Level Chef, where three different types of chefs compete to the limit in three kitchens that operate at the same time, arranged on a set with three levels, a mobile platform and 30 television cameras.
In this talent show, the competition will pit three large groups of contestants against each other: chefs, amateurs and foodie influencers. The 15 chefs who enter Next Level Chef will be subsequently chosen by each of the program’s three mentors, three renowned chefs whose objective will be, according to Mediaset’s presentation note, “to find the next big name in the world of cooking.” ”.
The competition will have a presenter, who will act as master of ceremonies and will outline the challenges that the chefs will have to face in each phase of the competition. Mediaset has not yet revealed who that presenter and the three mentors will be.
The contestants will not only have to demonstrate their art in the kitchen, since the competition will also require the ability to adapt, improvise, speed, reflexes, cunning and composure to make decisions in extreme situations. The program will take place on a set with a vertical structure on three levels with three kitchens designed in a different and identifying way to which the contestants must adapt in each challenge: a state-of-the-art kitchen on the upper level, a standard kitchen on the intermediate level. and a precarious installation on the lower level, with only the basic elements.
To complicate the tests, the participants will have the ingredients to cook on a mobile platform that goes up and down the heart of the structure, so they will have to quickly decide which products to take. Some will be lucky enough to choose good raw materials and others will have to make do with leftovers to create the culinary proposals with which they will be judged by the mentors.
Developed by Studio Ramsay, chef Gordon Ramsay’s production company, and produced by FOX Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay, Next Level Chef has achieved great audience success with the broadcast of its first two seasons in the United States, where he starred in the premiere of a program most viewed kitchen in history. The third season premiered at the end of January and garnered more than seven million viewers in Sunday prime time. The fourth season of the format is currently in production, which will premiere before the end of the year on FOX. In the United Kingdom it has been broadcast on ITV1 and France is already preparing its adaptation.
