Seven reveals Iron Chef cast
Seven is ready to take on Ten’s Masterchef with Iron Chef, the Japanese-originated pro-cooking contest which now has US and British editions.
Seven has cast three of Australia’s most high profile chefs for the contest – Rockpool’s Neil Perry, Guillaume Brahimi of Bennelong and Guy Grossi.
In a further twist, the show is being produced by Shine, which is about to take over production of Masterchef. However, unlike the Sydney-based Masterchef, Iron Chef will be filmed in Melbourne, reports today’s Herald Sun. Iron Chef.
Holy shit. Channel seven raping another of my childhood memories.
Is it just me or is everything created by that netwook an unmitigated failure?
Like there’s a difference between Chuck Norris and Jet Li, there’s a difference between a Western cooking show and Iron Chef. It’d be like asking Chuck to do a period Chinese kung-fu film. But sadly, our networks lack the creativity (or balls) to try something innovative on their own accord, so I guess we’re stuck with Crouching Chuck, Hidden Norris.
Horrible idea. Fantastic comments.
Nothing. This show will be nothing without Chairman Kaga.
Also – it needs controversy. Perhaps like the episode where guest French judge Julie Dreyfus refused to eat a dish, containing whale meat, and was ridiculed by the Japanese commentators.
I’d like to see whale as a theme ingredient
Tim, have you never seen this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068935/
Chuck Norris in a Kung fu movie. Possibly one of the best fight scenes ever, him against Bruce Lee.
But despite your metaphor, I agree that this will change the entire premise of Iron Chef. Where is the Japanese hilarity?
Get ready for this one to tank (probably before the first show).
Thanks Riarn. I am familiar with Bruce vs Chuck in Days of Old. Perhaps I should have clarified my Chuck reference as pertaining to his more recent manifestation: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106168/
Although, while we’re picking holes in my thesis, let me have a go at the Jet Li angle, with him imitating Chuck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/
How do we get tickets to be in the audience??
This has all the smell of a cheap rip off of something that was entertaining and fascinating at the same time.
Remember the aussie version of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy? This is Seven’s attempt to outdo that.
Sam G – any truth to the rumour that Julie Dreyfus was actually ridiculed for her rendition of that old Vera Lynn classic ‘Whale Meat Again’?
Outrageous – the only way this would be at all watchable is if Seven employed Japanese commentators to critique the cooking and then played them back to us translated via a goldfish. That’d be so cool.
Japan rules http://lh3.ggpht.com/_D_-48d0u.....%20pew.gif
How the hell did SBS let the rights for this series out of its hands? A sure-fire hit slips through its fingers…
Jason, I suspect that the commissioning costs (i.e. the cost to make a local version) exceeded their budget when they first did the acquistion deals (i.e. the much smaller cost to broadcast the existing episodes).
This is going to be massive. The market has been proven.
As much as the original will always be untouchable, this ticks all the boxes. Like asian horror, you can copy it, it will be watchable but it won’t have the authenticity of the masters.
How are they going to ever match the camp quality that the original version provides? Where will they ever find judges who will use such golden lines as “it reminds me of my childhood in Kyoto?’ In my mind it will draw an initial audience, be dreadful (if you are a tru fan of the original and it’s dubbed goodness) and last a season or two based on the food hyped media that we have now. I can only imagine the sponsor based food challenges – ‘this weeks themed ingredient is Continental Stock.’