Kitchen titans: Gordon Ramsay with Nyesha Arrington, left, and Paul Ainsworth, right
(Picture: ITV)Cookery shows in the UK tend to bed in like regulars in the pub — the same names and faces year in, year out: Masterchef, Great British Menu, Sunday Brunch, Tom Kerridge in various guises, Michel Roux doing something. Chunkz’ Bad Chefs is a welcome outlier, but the Youtube star is kept from the prime slot, and lives on ITV2.
Its bigger sister, ITV, is also welcoming something fresh this year. New — to the UK, at least — is Next Level Chef, an American import that runs for eight episodes on concurrent Wednesday evenings, from January 11. Having started in America, and still on there, the British format is largely similar. Gordon Ramsay leads proceedings, with help from chefs Paul Ainsworth and Nyesha Arrington. The show sees 12 chefs compete in what’s billed as “the world’s toughest cooking competition”.
