MasterChef 11 premiere | "Dramas", God and "shame"

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 hours and a little of last night’s first show plus another three hours and a little of tonight’s, equals more than six hours. So if the audience gets angry, it’s because…

When the communication director 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 kitchen meters were going to double, to double the duration of the program. It was a mistake to have illusions and think that the viewer had been heard and that one of her requests had been heard.

That the audience demands from RTVE that MasterChef finish earlier, at a reasonable hour, then hold the cubata for me. Not only does it not end later, but by doubling the broadcast each of the two programs lasts the same as one, three hours each. At 01:15 the premiere of MasterChef 11 ended and for what is scheduled, today’s, which begins at 10:35 p.m. 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, it will score in prime time and in late night quite a few more points of screen share than the average for 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, there are many more points than the average for the chain. compensates.

“Shame”, “nonsense”, “unnecessary”… These are some of the reactions to what many consider a hoax. It is true that the producer never said that the duration of MasterChef would be shortened, but it seemed logical. The reality is that dividing MasterChef 11 in two, multiplying the number of applicants by two and doubling the number of tests and eliminations each week was not to meet the viewer’s requests, but to achieve something else: more audience.

The fact that the viewer can see a MasterChef program end without the eyelids falling off the next day, if that, for another day. In short, as many viewers said last night, the broadcast will have to be delayed. But another problem arises, by dividing the talent in two, you also have to be more aware of the two programs otherwise you want to end up losing. And that already, with all the amount of content that there is right now, is more complicated. But we will see if in the end RTVE backfires.

For the moment, I’ll be naive, you have to keep hope and think that maybe last night the premiere of MasterChef 11 lasted more than three hours, it was the same consequence of all the premieres of the talent lasting longer than a normal program due to the casting presentation. Two hours of selection! There was a moment when I lost count of how many people had entered through the door of the second set of MasterChef 11. Mother! Let’s see, choosing 30 applicants among the 60 finalists and making room for all of them so that they have their minute of glory on television is what it has. But still, just as an idea, it can be shortened a little.

The casting is once 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 is also a lot of drama. It was the unanimous sentence of the spectators: “dramas”. Yes, the truth is that this time we have gone too far with the tear gas.

But see if they cook well, the dramas and the life of suffering and uphill, welcome. Getting to describe the 30 MasterChef 11 applicants would be crazy. I would start tonight’s program and we would not have finished. So summarizing in MasterChef 11 we have a little mix. Pepe Rodríguez already said it in the presentation of the new edition, “the whole of society is represented”. And yes, it is. And let us not forget, that we often forget, that MasterChef is a culinary talent, but it is also a show and it is entertainment. You have to give a game, the applicants have to give a game, and the casting of this eleventh edition will give to make three more editions.

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

Jordi Cruz put him to the test when he saw that the criticism with him does not go. And she 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 flattered by Jordi Cruz, but neither is he with his teammates. After trying the dishes of the six applicants who were on the tightrope and who were risking their entry into MasterChef 11, the judges asked those who were already within the talent, which of their companions they preferred to stay. And they asked Jhota. The man from Leon does not back down and he does not shut up either.

“La Vasca”, she released with the consequent annoyance of “La Vasca” and of Samantha Vallejo-Nágera who, as expected, blurted out “La Vasca has a name”. Yes, her name is Larraitz, she is a waitress and she is in MasterChef 11 because she wants to change the tray for the fires. And it seems that between her and the man from Bierzo there has already been hers more and hers less of her in coexistence. Jhota recognized that she does not have a sweet and soft way of addressing others. He gets up in the morning and they bang on the doors of his classmates’ rooms so that they wake up. And Larraitz, like every neighbor’s son who is woken up with blows and shouts, got pissed off. In front of the judges, Jhota acknowledged that it was normal, but the same thing should not have happened in the house because of what Barakaldo’s recounted. Come on, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

If there were already bad vibes when there were 16 applicants, imagine with 30. The MasterChef house must be like a cricket cage. 30 people living together for more than 3 months and each one of her father and her mother. Luckily they have Fray Marcos, a Dominican priest, to make peace. Yes, for the first time in the history of Masterchef they have found a priest who, apparently, cooks well, and who is going to bless every step that MasterChef 11 takes. In fact, last night, Tamara Falcó was delighted when the Marquise of Griñón, Catholic, Apostolic and Romanesque, was aware that there was a priest in MasterChef.

Among all the taunts towards her future husband, a little heavenly love never hurts. Yes, Jordi Cruz and also Pepe Rodríguez, they did not cut their hair short when referring to Íñigo Onieva. The first was Jordi Cruz, with whom Tamara Falcó had an imaginary affair when she participated in MasterChef Celebrity, the one who without mincing words told Tamara Falcó that she had never liked Íñigo for her. And the second was Pepe Rodríguez who very slyly told the marquise that Íñigo was a liar. Come on, Tamara Falcó’s return to the MasterChef kitchens 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 ones, the penalties are less thought.

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. His name is Luka, he has more than 600,000 followers and became a phenomenon on social networks when he uploaded the video in which his mother gives him an iPhone. It is expressiveness at its maximum power. And he is not the only famous one, in MasterChef 11 there is an Italian actress, Claudia, who, note what a coincidence, is part of the cast of actors in the Bosé series, also produced by Shine Iberia. Everything stays at home, although she is still with one foot out and one in, as the MasterChef judges handed out seven black aprons to the seven applicants who did not fully convince them.

It will probably be tonight in the outdoor test and the elimination test that the future of these aprons will be decided. To enter, 30 applicants have to enter, so most of the black aprons will pass the test and some will say goodbye to the talent kitchens.

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 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 the partner of her mother, a polydrug addict and prostitute, subjected him, it was her previous partner, Oriol, who took care of the little one. 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, that’s enough for me. And you must not cook badly, although that remains to be seen.

In short, tonight we have an outdoor test, to see how they do it to cook 30 applicants in the street, and a new elimination test. And, of course, another three hours of program. And it is no longer the premiere, it is already MasterChef 11 in all its splendor.

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