CJ E&M Renews Chef in Your Ear

SINGAPORE: In a deal with Bomanbridge Media, CJ E&M has renewed the cooking competition format Chef in Your Ear for a second season.

Korea-based CJ E&M currently airs season one of Chef in Your Ear, locally titled Avatar Chef. The format sees two professional chefs guide novice cooks in creating a restaurant-quality dish without entering the kitchen. Instead, the professional chefs look on and advise the amateurs through an earpiece. The format was created by Justin Scroggie and developed by Ricardo Larrivée, Michel Rodrigue, Lee Herberman and Henry Less.

“Bomanbridge is thrilled to represent the exciting and entertaining format, Chef in Your Ear for Asia and are so pleased to renew our format sale to our trusted partners, CJ E&M, for a second season,” said Gyeong Min Moon, the director of distribution and business development for South Korea at Bomanbridge Media. “We are known in Asia for licensing great formats which give channels high performance ratings. CJ E&M will enjoy great viewership with this show.”  

“CJ E&M is delighted to renew Chef in Your Ear for a second season,” stated Jang-Ho Seo, the head of international sales and acquisitions at CJ E&M. “The show is proving very popular to our audiences in the early stages of season one. CJ E&M has been building its reputation for producing and creating the best formats in the world and CIYE is a great addition to our portfolio.”

“The Format People are pleased that Bomanbridge Media, one of Asia’s top distributors, has taken Chef in Your Ear into Asia, first to Mongolia and now expanding in Korea with CJ E&M," said Rodrigue, the CEO of The Format People, which created Chef in Your Ear. "The format has proven highly successful on Food Network Canada. Justin and I are confident that the Asian versions will be just as successful."