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CHANNEL 7 and Channel 9 are taking their TV battle outside the kitchen and into the courtroom.
Seven has lodged papers in the Federal Court demanding Nine’s new series The Hot Plate be taken off air amid claims it is a copycat of Seven’s hugely successful seriesMy Kitchen Rules, the Herald Sun reports.
The legal catfight will be heard on Tuesday, when a judge will decide if Seven has grounds to claim Nine and production company Endemol stole its intellectual property and infringed its copyright.
Seven will claim The Hot Plate used almost identical casting, costuming, sets, music, promotion and judging processes to MKR.
MKR’s Manu Feildel and Pete Evans. Source: Supplied
Tom Parker Bowles and Scott Pickett from The Hot Plate.Source: Supplied
“Channel 9’s on-air promotions for its program had a strange sense of déjà vu,” a Seven spokesman told News Corp.
“We then saw it. We believe Nine has appropriated Seven’s My Kitchen Rulesoriginal format and related production elements and contravened copyright.”
Nine denies the claims, arguing the series will evolve and be different to MKR. In the coming weeks contestants will be given $20,000 to renovate their restaurants whileMKR contestants continue to ‘cook-off’ against each other in a series of studio and location challenges.
The Hot Plate features six existing restaurants competing for $100,000.
While itoutrated Seven’s new cooking series Restaurant Revolution, many viewers took to Twitter calling Nine’s offering a “poor man’s MKR”.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...SF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook
CHANNEL 7 and Channel 9 are taking their TV battle outside the kitchen and into the courtroom.
Seven has lodged papers in the Federal Court demanding Nine’s new series The Hot Plate be taken off air amid claims it is a copycat of Seven’s hugely successful seriesMy Kitchen Rules, the Herald Sun reports.
The legal catfight will be heard on Tuesday, when a judge will decide if Seven has grounds to claim Nine and production company Endemol stole its intellectual property and infringed its copyright.
Seven will claim The Hot Plate used almost identical casting, costuming, sets, music, promotion and judging processes to MKR.
MKR’s Manu Feildel and Pete Evans. Source: Supplied
Tom Parker Bowles and Scott Pickett from The Hot Plate.Source: Supplied
“Channel 9’s on-air promotions for its program had a strange sense of déjà vu,” a Seven spokesman told News Corp.
“We then saw it. We believe Nine has appropriated Seven’s My Kitchen Rulesoriginal format and related production elements and contravened copyright.”
Nine denies the claims, arguing the series will evolve and be different to MKR. In the coming weeks contestants will be given $20,000 to renovate their restaurants whileMKR contestants continue to ‘cook-off’ against each other in a series of studio and location challenges.
The Hot Plate features six existing restaurants competing for $100,000.
While itoutrated Seven’s new cooking series Restaurant Revolution, many viewers took to Twitter calling Nine’s offering a “poor man’s MKR”.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...SF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook
