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Telemundo: Second season of MasterChef Latino innovates in all the fronts
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 28 de junio de 2019
Pancho Calvo Telemundo MasterChef Latino
The second season of MasterChef Latino on Telemundo features many innovations: 15 participants (including the first disabled person competing in this format), each judge supervising a group of five people, and shot for the first time in three studios of the modern Telemundo Center with many technological advances.
“Due to the magnitude of the show and the set, we are using three studios, two of which are part of the set and a third where the participants are prepared. One of the things we incorporated this year was that finalists are receiving weekly classes, and we can see their evolution from show number one to 13,” explains Pancho Calvo, executive producer of the Development Area at Telemundo (responsible for the Cisco Suárez team).
Calvo highlighted that there are nearly 220 people involved in the realization of the show. He added that Endemol and Telemundo are responsible for the production, with Calvo as the executive producer on behalf of Telemundo and Tracy Benavides on behalf of Endemol. The supervision of the final content is under the responsibility of Cisco Suárez on behalf of Telemundo and José Lascurain as the representative of Endemol.
Calvo comments that the master control MasterChef Latino was set up in a mobile unit to facilitate the coverage of the challenges that take place outside the studios.
