Trivia / My Kitchen Rules

• Dueling Shows: With Network Ten's MasterChef Australia, from which it borrows a lot of inspiration.
• Follow the Leader: Considering the popularity of cooking shows in Australia, this is quite inevitable.
  • As previously noted, My Kitchen Rules is Channel 7's response to Channel 10's Master Chef Australia, debuting a year after the latter.
  • Channel 9 tried to follow MKR's footsteps with its own version of cooking show, "Hotplate". However, it got into a legal dispute with Seven, and the show was canned after a mere season.
• Franchise Killer: Barely averted. Season 10's controversies caused a significant drop in ratings the following year, leading to the cancellation of sister series House Rules in addition to the possible shelving of Apartment Rules. When MKR returned in 2022, it was significantly shorter than previous seasons (not even a month long) and the ratings remained just as middling. Downplayed in that the spin-offs, My Kitchen Rules NZ (New-Zealand) and My Kitchen Rules SA (South-Africa) are still running to this day.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In conjunction with his many alternative diet-related controversies and for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, Season 11's record-low ratings prompted Channel 7 to end their contract with Pete Evans. He was replaced by MasterChef AU Matt Preston and Nigella Lawson after the network renewed MKR in late 2021.