MasterChef: The Professionals
MasterChef: The Professionals is a BBC television competitive cooking show which aired on BBC Two from 2008 to 2019, and on BBC One since 2020. It is a spin-off from the main MasterChef series, for professional working chefs. Introduced in 2008, Gregg Wallace and India Fisher reprised their roles as co-judge and voiceover respectively. Michel Roux Jr., a two-Michelin-star chef, assisted, from 2009, by his sous-chef Monica Galetti. Since 2011, Sean Pertwee has taken over Fisher's role as voiceover.
| MasterChef: The Professionals | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cooking |
| Written by | Franc Roddam |
| Judges | Gregg Wallace Monica Galetti (2009–2021, 2023-) Marcus Wareing (2014–) Michel Roux Jr. (2008–14) Anna Haugh (2022) |
| Narrated by | India Fisher (2008–10) Sean Pertwee (2011–) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 292 (inc. 4 specials) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Franc Roddam Elisabeth Murdoch Carla-Maria Lawson |
| Running time | 30–60 minutes |
| Production companies | Shine TV and Ziji Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Two (2008–19) BBC One (2020–) |
| Release | 25 August 2008 – present |
| Related | |
| MasterChef | |
In 2014, Roux Jr left the show due to "a conflict in commercial interests". Marcus Wareing replaced him. In 2022, Galetti announced that she was leaving the show; she was replaced as a judge by Anna Haugh for the 2022 series. On 23 March 2023, it was announced by Galetti on Instagram that she would be returning to the show as a judge for the sixteenth series, and she did so when it was broadcast from 23 October 2023 onwards.