Founder of Battle of the Chefs, Joseph Bunga told us recently that they had secured the funding in recent months and have since produced the second season of the show.
The show is currently screenly weekly on ZBC but you can also watch it on YouTube here. The concept of Battle of the Chefs is similar to MasterChef or South Africa’s Ultimate Braai Master – revenues are based on an advertising model.
Before the funding, Bunga says they bootstrapped their way to producing the first season, were running out of money by the time they finished production. The first season also aired on ZBC TV last year. That first season had some 13 episodes. After it started airing they got an offer from Multichoice to have Battle of the Chefs screen on the Zambezi Magic regional pay TV channel but he says they had to turn it down because the offer was too low.
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