My Kitchen Rules is back for a new season in 2024.
The cooking show, which has suffered a ratings decline, announced a casting call for next year’s series on Instagram with a link to the application page.
Applicants need to be Australian citizens or permanent residents, and apply together with their team mate as the contestants compete in teams of two.
Both team members need to have an existing relationship and are required to submit a series of pictures together or a three-minute video.
The application page also gives some suggestions about what questions to address in the video submission, including ‘what do you love about cooking?’ and ‘why should you, as a team, be part of the show?’
My Kitchen Rules is back for a new season in 2024. The cooking show, announced a casting call for next year’s series. Pictured left to right: 2023 judges Manu Feildel, Nigella Lawson, Colin Fasnidge
Applicants need to be Australian citizens or permanent residents, and apply together with their team mate. Both team members need to have an existing relationship and are required to submit a series of pictures together or a three-minute video
Back in September the premiere of the cooking competition’s 13th season managed to draw in just 470,000 viewers in the major capitals.
MKR did not even finish in the top ten most-watched programs overnight, a far cry from its ratings heyday a decade ago when it would pull in well over a million viewers an episode.
MKR returned to Channel Seven in 2022, two years after it was axed.
Debuting to just 500,000 viewers, the show has continued to shed fans in the metro centres.
Channel Seven axed My Kitchen Rules: The Rivals from Sunday night’s programming back in 2020.
The struggling cooking show was replaced by a ‘rushed-to-air’ documentary about koalas being rescued during the recent bushfires.
The application page also gives some suggestions about what questions to address in the video submission, including ‘what do you love about cooking?’ and ‘why should you, as a team, be part of the show?’ Pictured: contestants from 2023 series of My Kitchen Rules
MKR returned to Channel Seven in 2022, two years after it was axed
MKR’s Sunday episodes struggled to compete with the likes of Married At First Sight, Dancing with the Stars and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
The show’s ratings, which plunged to a record low, were said to be untenable and Seven executives were ‘pushing’ to cancel it in 2020.
A source told the magazine: ‘MKR is no longer safe. There are people in power pushing to end the show for good.’
However, it returned in 2022, but has continued to struggle in the ratings.
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