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MasterChef Australia celebrates a decade of feeding the souls of fans
MUMBAI: MasterChef Australia has transcended from being a reality TV show to becoming a beacon of inspiration to millions of people around the globe. Over the course of the past decade, the show has not only influenced dining habits and cooking techniques but, more importantly,has also helped people believe in themselves! Celebrating a milestone, MasterChef Australia launches its 10th season onMonday and will air weeknights at 9 PM only on Star World.
Holding a torch for the legacy that the show has created in India, Star World, has devised a unique campaign to showcase how the series has revolutionized the way Indians perceive life and food. Through the campaign ‘#10YearsOfGourmet’, the channel focuses on how people haven’t changed over the past decade but the way we express ourselves through food certainly has gourmet’d up!
With the 10th season, the series is geared up to push boundaries not only by intensifying the competition but also by bringing the world’sbiggest culinary icons on one platform. From Britain’s Nigella Lawson and Heston Blumenthal to America’s Gordon Ramsay, India’s butter chicken mavenSaraanshGoila, Australia’s Curtis Stone, Kirsten Tibballs and many more, the season will showcase globally renowned food experts– chefs who have become increasingly popular for even Indians due to the popularity of MasterChef Australia!
Helmed by judges – Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston who have been instrumental making the show what it is, MasterChef Australia’s season 10 promises to provide its viewers with gripping challenges, mouth-watering cuisines, the largest panel of global chefs and an emotional rollercoaster like never before!
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
