• RTVE The risky and "intense" new edition of MasterChef: "This is what they demanded of us and so we charge it"

Yes, it can be said, we have been deceived. RTVE asked Shine Iberia, producer of MasterChef, to divide the 11th edition into two programs, supposedly to shorten the duration of MasterChef and, it turns out, that from three and a quarter hours that the talent lasted, we have gone to more than six. It's an easy sum, three and a little hours of last night's first program plus another three hours and little of tonight's, equal to more than six hours. Then if the audience gets angry, it is that...

When the director of communication of RTVE, María Eizaguirre, said in the presentation of Masterchef 11 that it was the XXL edition, it was difficult to imagine that just as the contestants, the tests and the meters of kitchen were going to double, the duration of the program was also going to double. It was a mistake to get our hopes up and think that the viewer had been heard and that one of his requests had been heard.

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The risky and "intense" new edition of MasterChef: "This is how they demanded it from us and that's how we charged it"

  • Writing: ESTHER MUCIENTES Madrid

The risky and "intense" new edition of MasterChef: "This is how they demanded it from us and that's how we charged it"

That the audience claims to RTVE that MasterChef ends earlier, at a reasonable hour, because hold me the bucket. Not only does it not end later, but when doubling the broadcast each of the two programs lasts the same as it lasted one, three hours each. At 01:15 hours the premiere of MasterChef 11 ended and for what is scheduled, today, which starts at 22.35 three quarters of the same. The consequence: the monumental anger of the audience.

If MasterChef 11 is on the grid two days a week, there are two days on RTVE will mark in prime time and late night many more screen share points than the average of the chain. That at the end of the month translates into more audience points, which RTVE needs right now. And that last night the premiere of MasterChef 11 marked one of its worst audience data for a first program, 13.8%. Even so, they are many more points than the average of the chain. Compensates.

The public sentences MasterChef 11

"Shame", "meaningless", "unnecessary"... These are some of the reactions to what many consider a hoax. It is true that from the producer it was never said that the duration of MasterChef was going to be shortened, but it seemed logical. The reality is that dividing into two MasterChef 11, doubling the number of applicants and doubling the number of tests and eliminated each week was not to meet the requests of the viewer, but to achieve something else: more audience.

The fact that the viewer can see a MasterChef program end without the next day his eyelids falling out, if that, for another day. In short, as many viewers said last night will have to pull the broadcast in deferred. But another problem arises, when dividing the talent in two, you also have to be more aware of the two programs if you do not want to end up losing. And that, with all the amount of content there is right now, is more complicated. But we will see if in the end RTVE backfires.

For the moment, I will be naïve, we must remain hopeful and think that maybe last night the premiere of MasterChef 11 lasted more than three hours was a consequence of all the premieres of talent are longer than a normal program due to the presentation of the casting. Two hours of selection! There was a moment when I lost count of how many people had walked through the door of the second set of MasterChef 11. Madreeeee! Let's see, choosing 30 candidates among the 60 finalists and accommodating all of them to have their minute of glory on television is what you have. But anyway, just as an idea, it can be shortened a little.

The casting is again a delight, a delight because, although it will be difficult to learn the name of the 30, it is like a school of freshly caught fish. There is everything and for everyone. And, yes, there's also a lot of drama. It was the unanimous sentence of the spectators: "dramas". Yes, the truth is that this time we have gone with the tearful.

But see if they cook well, the dramas and the life of suffering and uphill, welcome. To describe the 30 MasterChef 11 hopefuls would be crazy. Tonight's program would start and we wouldn't be done. So summing up in MasterChef 11 we have a varied. As Pepe Rodríguez said in the presentation of the new edition, "the whole society is represented". And yes, it is. And do not forget, that we often forget, that MasterChef is a culinary talent, but it is also a show and entertainment. You have to give play, the aspirants have to give play, and the casting of this eleventh edition will give to make three more editions.

So much so that when the aspirants had not been together for a week, the first frictions and confrontations have already arisen. Yes, yes, curves are coming in Masterchef 11. Jhota, who was chosen after preparing meatballs in the style of his grandmother and agreeing with Pepe Rodríguez to become his future partner, has already made it clear that he is not in his DNA.

Jordi Cruz put him to the test when he saw that the criticism with him does not go. And he endured the pulse of Jordi Cruz, the first of the edition. But it was in the last test of the first program, from which the first eliminated, Roberto, came out when it was seen that Jotha is not intimidated with Jordi Cruz, but neither with his teammates. After tasting the dishes of the six aspirants who were on the tightrope and who were playing their entrance in MasterChef 11, the judges asked those who were already within the talent, which of their colleagues they preferred to stay. And they asked Jhota. The Leonese does not shrink and does not shut up.

"The Basque", he blurted out with the consequent musket of "the Basque" and Samantha Vallejo-Nágera who, as expected, blurted out a "the Basque has a name". Yes, her name is Larraitz, she is a waitress and she is on MasterChef 11 because she wants to change the tray for the fires. And it seems that between her and the Bierzo there have already been their pluses and minuses in coexistence. Jhota acknowledged that she doesn't have a sweet, gentle way of addressing others. He gets up in the morning and knocks on the doors of his companions' rooms to wake them up. And Larraitz, like every neighbor's son who is woken up by blows and screams, was. In front of the judges Jhota acknowledged that it was normal, but in the house the same should not have happened because of what the Barakaldo woman said. Come on, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Jordi Cruz's pulla to Tamara Falcó on MasterChef 11

If there were already bad rolls when there were 16 applicants, imagine with 30. MasterChef's house should be like a cricket cage. 30 people living together for more than 3 months and each of their father and mother. Luckily they have Fray Marcos, a Dominican priest, to bring peace. Yes, for the first time in Masterchef's history they have found a priest who apparently cooks well, and who will bless every step MasterChef 11 takes. In fact, last night, it gave Tamara Falcó a joy, when the Marchioness of Griñón, Catholic, apostolic and Romanesque was aware that there was a priest on MasterChef.

Among so much hustle for her future husband, a little heavenly love never hurts. Yes, Jordi Cruz and also Pepe Rodríguez, did not cut half a hair when referring to Íñigo Onieva. The first was Jordi Cruz, with whom Tamara Falcó had an imaginary affair when she participated in MasterChef Celebrity, who without mincing words told Tamara Falcó that he had never liked Íñigo for her. And the second was Pepe Rodríguez who very sibilinously indicated to the Marchioness that Íñigo was a liar. Come on, Tamara Falcó's return to the kitchens of MasterChef was not a bed of roses. But she takes it so well and having a tiktoker, an absolute fan of Isabel Preysler's daughter, among the chosen, the sorrows are less thoughtful.

Yes, there is also a tiktoker, who, by the way, should have gone to the elimination test because Jordi Cruz gave him a no like a house. Her name is Luka, she has more than 600,000 followers and became a phenomenon on social networks when she uploaded the video in which her mother gives her an iPhone. It is expressiveness at its best. And he is not the only celebrity, in MasterChef 11 there is an Italian actress, Claudia, who, notice that coincidence, is part of the cast of actors of the series Bosé, which also produces Shine Iberia. Everything stays at home, although it is still with one foot outside and one inside, as the MasterChef judges gave seven black aprons to the seven aspirants who did not finish convincing them at all.

It will probably be tonight in the outdoor test and in the elimination test where the future of these aprons will be decided. Enter 30 aspirants, so most of the black aprons will pass the test and some will say goodbye to the kitchens of talent.

And what else do we have? Oops, the dramas! The heaviest is probably Jeremy's, but look, the happiness and joy that this 20-year-old from Granada has is the most necessary in a culinary talent. Jeremy's story moved the judges. Interned in a juvenile center when he was 7 years old to protect him from the physical abuse to which he was subjected by his mother's partner, a polydrug addict and prostitute, it was her previous partner, Oriol, who took care of the child. Now, it is clear to him that his father is him and that his first mother is his mother-in-law. To me with his smile in the face of so much misfortune, it is worth it. And you shouldn't cook badly, though that's yet to be seen.

In short, tonight we have outdoor test, to see how they do it to put 30 aspirants to cook on the street, and a new elimination test. And, of course, another three hours of program. And it's no longer the premiere, it's MasterChef 11 in all its glory.

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