Iron Chef America: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Iron Chef America is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed Iron Chef USA. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original Iron Chef. Like the original Japanese program, the program is a culinary game show. In each episode, a new challenger chef competes against one of the resident "Iron Chefs" in a one-hour cooking competition based on a secret ingredient or ingredients, and sometimes theme.

Series details

• Title: Iron Chef America
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2005-01-16
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-07-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Food Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 8597
• IMDb ID: tt0441718
• TVDB ID: 74325

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2005-01-16; final listed air date 2005-04-03.
• Season 2: premiered 2005-07-10; final listed air date 2006-01-22.
• Season 3: premiered 2006-02-26; final listed air date 2007-01-21.
• Season 4: premiered 2007-02-11; final listed air date 2007-05-27.
• Season 5: premiered 2007-07-29; final listed air date 2008-01-20.
• Season 6: premiered 2008-01-06; final listed air date 2008-09-07.
• Season 7: premiered 2008-10-05; final listed air date 2009-11-29.
• Season 8: premiered 2010-01-01; final listed air date 2010-12-12.
• Season 9: premiered 2011-01-02; final listed air date 2011-11-27.
• Season 10: premiered 2011-01-01; final listed air date 2012-10-14.
• Season 11: premiered 2012-12-30; final listed air date 2013-09-15.
• Season 12: premiered 2013-10-12; final listed air date 2014-09-06; episode order: 11.
• Season 13: premiered 2018-05-16; final listed air date 2018-07-22; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

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