Sky Italia, ESG enrol in Cook Academy

Sky Uno in Italy has commissioned a new six-part culinary competition format from Endemol Shine Group.

Chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo in Cook Academy

Endemol Shine Italy is producing Cook Academy, in which 10 aspiring chefs follow an intensive training course that tests both their professional and personal skills in order to prove worthy of a place in the kitchen of one of the most exclusive restaurants in Italy: Villa Crespi.

The 6×60’ format is being hosted by renowned chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo, who will set the tasks in each episode.

At the end of each test the chefs will be assigned a score, the sum of which will determine their final classification and the contestant who scores the least points will be forced to leave the Academy.

Endemol Shine Group’s cooking format portfolio also includes MasterChef, which has more than 60 adaptations on air around the world, and Ready Steady Cook.

The latter has been Italy’s number one cooking show for two decades and is returning to the UK, after a 10-year hiatus, and to Finland.

Endemol Shine also numbers the formats to Family Food Fight and Kitchen Impossible plus finished-tape series My Greatest Dishes and Britain’s Best Cook amongst its line-up.