Channel 10 reveals air date for MasterChef 2023

The beloved cooking show is set to return with some big changes, as Channel 10 revealed its premiere date alongside a promo trailer.

MasterChef is just weeks away from returning to screens for the 2023 season.

Channel 10 revealed the long-running cooking series will premiere on May 1, with its 15th season, titled MasterChef Australia: Secrets & Surprises, serving up some changes on previous years.

Alongside the air date, the network also dropped a one-minute promo trailer for the show, which featured a magic garden-themed set-up starring judges Melissa Leong, Jock Zonfrillo and Andy Allen.

MasterChef has revealed its air date, with the show set to premiere on May 1.

Melissa Leong, Andy Allen and Jock Zonfrillo return as judges.

The trio, as well as several unnamed contestants, can be seen navigating their way around a maze as Somewhere Only We Know plays, before finding themselves in the centre where a feast awaits.

The trio began their judging roles in 2021.

The popular cooking series has undergone some shake-ups this year, and will have a much shorter run time than usual. MasterChef has traditionally stretched out its run over two months with episodes airing four nights a week.

But this year, the decision was made for it to be more compact a bid to maintain audience engagement.

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The series will follow I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, which premieres on April 2.

It comes after Ten revealed its jam-packed 2023 programming line-up in Sydney last year, and perhaps the most exciting news was for MasterChef fans, with a sweet spin-off titled Dessert Masters set to premiere this year.

“This short and sweet series is all about – as the name suggests – desserts, with 10 masters of their art battling for the inaugural title of Dessert Master,” a Ten press release reads.

The series will be filmed in the MasterChef kitchen in Melbourne, and will be judged by Leong and Amaury Guichon.