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Iron Chef
Entertainment
25 x 60'

The ultimate Japanese cooking sensation reformatted for access prime time.

Teams of eager culinary challengers compete with four resident Iron Chefs in a high-energy cook-off. In each programme, the Iron Chefs take on their challengers in a timed battle and must prepare superlative dishes based on each day's special ingredient, anything from aubergine to octopus. The dishes are then judged by expert food critics, with the winner declared at the end of the show.

In the stripped version, a week of programmes culminates in a grand ‘Friday Final’ where the best contender of the week goes head-to-head with the week’s strongest Iron Chef. And if the challenger wins this final cook-off, they win a cash prize. The competition takes place in an amazing pressure cooker of an arena called ‘Kitchen Stadium’, and the battle presided over by ‘The Chairman’, an enigmatic Japanese ring master who embodies the ancient heritage of the competition. Allez cuisine!

Based on “Iron Chef”: an original programme by Fuji Television Network, Inc

IWC Media (2009)

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Reviews:

"Cooking doesn't get tougher than this...or more fun." (The Times)

"MasterChef meets Gladiators in this British version of a cult Japanese show that is sure to prove a hit over here." (The Times)

(Olly Smith's)...presence alone makes this an early dinner date you can't afford to miss. The cult following starts here. (The Mail On Sunday)

"Perhaps you thought MasterChef was the ultimate heated contest of high-pressure cooking, but the new series Iron Chef UK makes it look positively sedate." (The Mail On Sunday)

"A steroid-pumped beast of a cooking show...ludicrously entertaining..." (The Sunday Times)

"Iron Chef, a martial arts cookery show with backflips, is utterly baffling. And great fun". (The Guardian)

Ratings:
New Channel 4 cookery series Iron Chef UK served up more than million viewers on its debut. Based on a Japanese gladiatorial ‘cook-off ’ format, which has also proved a hit in the US, the British version cooked up an average audience of 920,000 (7.9%) across the 5pm hour. It picked up an additional 108,000 (0.6%) an hour later on C4+1, taking the total audience to 1.03m.