Rat in the Kitchen will not be cooking up a second season. TBS has ended the show, which has been described as a cross between The Masked Singer and Hell’s Kitchen, after one season.
It premiered in March 2022. Kathleen Finch, Chairman and Chief Content Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery’s U.S. Networks Group, revealed the show had been canceled during her Deadline-moderated keynote session at Realscreen in Austin, Texas.
She was talking about the second season of The Cube, which has been pushed to later in the year, and has more episodes of Wipeout.
But she added, “We decided not to do more Rat in the Kitchen. It is a great show, but we now have Food Network and Cooking Channel in the family, so it doesn’t really make sense to spread the peanut butter so thin from a content perspective.” Asked about the difference in terms of budgets between the Turner networks and Discovery channels, including the old Scripps networks, she added, “We do a lot of competition shows on Food Network for a much better price point and we make them in a way that that enables them to repeat.
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