MasterChef Australia achieved a huge milestone last week, which went completely unnoticed by the cast and production team of the hit series.
On Tuesday, the 1,000th episode of the Channel Ten competitive cooking show aired without any fanfare since it premiered in 2009.
However, a handful of sharp-eyed fans took to Reddit to acknowledge the milestone — and wonder why the series’ judges didn’t mention it on the show.
“I noticed an amazing statistic: MCA has reached 1,000 episodes! “If you watch every episode once, that’s almost 42 DAYS of programming, 24 hours a day,” one excited viewer wrote.
Meanwhile, another fan wondered why the network didn’t take the opportunity to publicly celebrate the show.
MasterChef Australia reached a huge milestone last week, which went completely unnoticed by the cast and production team of the hit series
On Tuesday, the 1,000th episode of the Channel Ten competitive cooking show aired without any fanfare since it premiered in 2009. In the photo: judge Poh Ling Yeow
‘It’s a missed opportunity. They should have done something big this week to celebrate, especially since one of the judges just mentioned this week is about something big,” they wrote.
Each series of the hit reality series, which first aired in April 2009, typically produces between 60 and 80 episodes, with judges Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan.
The achievement makes the hit series – which launched the public careers of many culinary experts including Poh Ling Yeoh and Julie Goodwin – the second ever Australian reality series to reach 1000 episodes.
However, a handful of sharp-eyed fans took to Reddit to acknowledge the milestone – and wonder why the series’ judges didn’t mention it on the show
It is second only to Big Brother, which has filmed more than 1,500 episodes since its debut in 2001.
Meanwhile, Channel Nine’s popular renovation show The Block has produced more than 900 episodes and should reach the same milestone in the coming years.
The latest series of MasterChef is judged by food experts Andy Allen, French celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, Melbourne-based food critic Sofia Levin and season one runner-up Poh Ling Yeow.
They replace outgoing Judge Melissa Leong and the late Jock Zonfrillo, following his tragic death last year.