Singapore’s Mediacorp and Motion Content Group are returning “MasterChef” for a fourth season in August 2023, the companies confirmed today.

The 10-episode local version of the Banijay Rights property, which will be produced again by Beach House Pictures, also returns judges Audra Morrice, Bjorn Shen and Damian D’Silva.

“MasterChef Singapore” season three, which aired in May-July this year, was the top local English-language variety series on Channel 5 in 2022, reaching more than 1.2 million viewers on the free TV broadcast network, streaming platform meWatch and the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube channel from 1 May to 22 September, Mediacorp said today.

“MasterChef “pretty much flies the flag for formats in Singapore, which has never been among the region’s leading formats markets.

Out of the 169 formats adaptations commissioned/under way or on air from January to the end of June 2022, Singapore had only one title – ”MasterChef Singapore” S3 (10 x 60 mins), which aired from 1 May to 3 July 2022 at 9.30pm.

If no other formats deals are signed this year, the country will end 2022 with just those two adaptations commissioned or on air.

The eight-episode “MasterChef Singapore” season one aired from 2 September to 21 October 2018, followed by the 10-episode season two from 21 February to 25 April 2021.