MasterChef: The Professionals
| MasterChef: The Professionals | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cooking |
| Written by | Franc Roddam |
| Judges | Gregg Wallace (2008–24) Monica Galetti (2009–2021, 2023–) Marcus Wareing (2014–) Michel Roux Jr. (2008–14) Anna Haugh (2022) John Torode (2025–) |
| Narrated by | India Fisher (2008–10) Sean Pertwee (2011–) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 16 |
| 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 | |
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 was a judge, assisted, from 2009, by his sous-chef Monica Galetti. Since 2011 Sean Pertwee has held the voiceover role.
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 15) season. 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.