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Beat the Chefs

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For Australian television show, see Beat the Chef.
Beat the Chefs
Beat the Chefs logo.png
Genre Game show
Presented by Matt Rogers
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Judges <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Christy Jordan
  • Brad A. Johnson
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 4
Production
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Running time 42–44 minutes
Production company(s) RelativityREAL
Release
Original network GSN
Original release August 23 (2012-08-23) –
September 13, 2012 (2012-09-13)
External links
Website

Beat the Chefs is an American television cooking game show broadcast by Game Show Network and hosted by Matt Rogers. The series features contestants preparing a home-cooked family recipe, while professional chefs Beau MacMillan, Antonia Lofaso and Jeff Henderson make the same recipe in an upscale restaurant version. The two dishes are then judged by a panel of food critics, who decide the winner. The series premiered on August 23, 2012, and aired its last episode on September 13, 2012.

Format

The series features two families, one in each half-hour of the episode, preparing their family recipe while the professional chefs cook a restaurant version of the same meal.[1] The family begins by revealing the dish they have selected to cook to the chefs as well as how longer they think it will take to prepare it. The chefs are then given the same amount of time to create their own version. Once the first cook-off is complete, the second family is brought out, and the procedure is repeated with their own meal. After the second cook-off, the judges reveal the winning dish from each round.[1] If the family's home cooked meal beats the chefs' professional version, the family wins $25,000; if the chefs win, the family receives $1,000 worth of kitchen supplies.

Production

Beat the Chefs first appeared at GSN's upfront presentation in New York City as an original green-lit series on March 21, 2012.[2] GSN later put out a casting call from May 25, 2012 to June 25, 2012, looking for "great cooks" who had never been "formally trained".[3] On July 2, 2012, GSN announced the series' premiere date as August 23, 2012, right after the premiere of The American Bible Challenge.[4] GSN then released the cast for the series on July 24, 2012, announcing former American Idol contestant Matt Rogers as the host of the show.[5] The press release also revealed Beau MacMillan, Antonia Lofaso and Jeff Henderson as the professional chefs,[5][6][7][8] as well as Brad A. Johnson and Christy Jordan as judges.[5] In addition, Johnson and Jordan were joined by a guest judge each episode;[5] these judges included Eric Roberts,[9] Julie Powell,[10] Richie Palmer,[11] and Melissa Rycroft.[12]

The series premiered on August 23, 2012 immediately following the premiere of The American Bible Challenge. GSN continued to air one new episode a week until September 13, 2012. Although no official cancelation announcement was made, the series has not been seen since then. The show also was not mentioned or discussed in GSN's most recent upfront presentation and is therefore assumed to be canceled.[13]

Reception

Beat the Chefs earned mixed reception from critics. Carrie Grosvenor of About Entertainment argued that Rogers was a good fit for the show as host and called the show "enjoyable", but also claimed that there wasn't "enough of a focus on the food and preparation".[14] Meanwhile, Hollywood Junket praised the series, calling it a "guaranteed winning show" while arguing that it had the potential to become "extremely successful".[15]

The series earned relatively average ratings for GSN's standards. Despite The American Bible Challenge debuting to record ratings for GSN, Beat the Chefs maintained less than a third of the viewers that tuned in to its lead-in. The series premiere averaged 521,000 viewers, compared to the 1.73 million viewers who watched The American Bible Challenge.[16] The following week, Beat the Chefs dropped to 357,000 viewers, while its lead-out, a sneak peek of GSN's upcoming revival of Pyramid, earned 443,000 viewers.[17]

References

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External links

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