THE 12 months has simply bought higher for cooking present aficionados as MasterChef: The Professionals continues on our screens.
Followers had been anxious that the hit cooking competitors could be interrupted because of the pandemic, however Marcus Wareing, Monica Galetti and Gregg Wallace are firmly again within the MasterChef kitchen.
Marcus, Monica and Gregg are again within the MasterChef kitchenCredit score: BBC Footage
The place was MasterChef: The Professionals filmed?
3 Mills Studios
MasterChef: The Professionals is filmed at 3 Mills Studios in LondonCredit score: Alamy
MasterChef: The Professionals is filmed at 3 Mills Studios.
3 Mills Studios is an iconic British filming location in East London.
With 9 filming levels, 11 theatre areas and over 75,000 sq. ft. of filming house, it has been used for numerous movies and TV exhibits.
In addition to being the house to the kitchens for all the MasterChef franchises, it has supplied the filming location for Hell’s Kitchen, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Killing Eve season two, Our Girl and The Third Day.
Three Mills studios is the house to the kitchens for all the MasterChef franchisesCredit score: BBC Footage
From 2005-2011, MasterChef was filmed at Metropolis College’s Halls of Residence on Bastwick Avenue in London.
For the next three years, filming moved to the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, earlier than discovering a house at 3 Mills in 2014.
Filming for this sequence of the present kicked off again in July, regardless of all of the issues that coronavirus posed to the TV {industry}.
In July 2020, a MasterChef spokeswoman mentioned : “We’re guaranteeing that every one Covid-19 filming protocols are being adhered to as set out in industry-wide filming tips printed final week.”
The producers needed to comply with social distancing tips whereas filming Credit score: BBC Footage
Gregg defined how this 12 months has been completely different with social distancing guidelines in pressure: “Me, Marcus and Monica used to elbow one another out the best way around the plate, now we go up like a buffet and we take a bit out of every plate.
“The cooks cook dinner, then with clear cutlery we take a bit off after which take it away. Barely completely different however not majorly completely different.”
Filming of the present has now wrapped up, and contestants are sworn to secrecy about who the champion is.
When is MasterChef on BBC and what number of episodes are there?
MasterChef: The Professionals sequence 12 kicked off on November 5 at 8pm on BBC Two.
The present runs for seven weeks and episodes normally air on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on the identical time every week, with the ultimate being on December 24.
You possibly can watch episodes and catch up on-line through the BBC iPlayer here.
