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| MASTERCHEF
Judge Matt Preston is in Negotiations to Make his Mark as Host of a TV
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While Channel 10, home of MasterChef, has been poring over the fine print in Preston's contract to try to ensure he appears on no other network, Preston has made it known he is keen to try something new. Preston, whose sudden rise to TV stardom saw him win the peer-voted Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at this year's Logies, has been in discussions with Andrew Denton's production company, Zapruder's Other Films, to become a Michael Parkinson-type front man. The yet-to-be-named show would be in addition to Preston's role on MasterChef. It's a show that could further endear Preston, 49, to Australian TV audiences who cannot get enough of him on MasterChef, which nudges two million in the ratings and has transformed itself into a $100 million industry. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.  End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. A 30-second ad spot on the show costs about $70,000, the most for a nightly program by about $30,000. Neither Preston nor Denton responded to calls last night about the negotiations and if the show would screen on Ten. But there's no denying Denton's clout when it comes to successful pitching of TV concepts. The former host of Enough Rope has in recent years produced animated variety series David Tench Tonight for Ten, advertising industry comedy :30 Seconds for Foxtel and Hungry Beast and The Gruen Transfer for the ABC. He is also behind AFP for Channel 9, a soon-to-screen factual series about the Australian Federal Police. A TV source said he was aware Denton had mentioned the Preston chat show in discussions with networks. "A chat show makes perfect sense," the source said. "Matt's a historian, he's academic. He's articulate. He could really make it work." On top of developing the Denton concept, Preston is also gearing up for Junior MasterChef, expected to debut in September. A Channel 10 representative would not comment about Preston's ambitions outside MasterChef. Source: News Australia |
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