Netflix is restarting ‘Iron Chef’ with Alton Brown, ‘The Chairman’ in 8 bingeable episodes

This summerseason, TELEVISION’s most extreme cooking competitors is returning.

“Iron Chef,” long cherished for pitting chefs in head-to-head, unforeseeable competitors, is getting a reboot on Netflix June 15.

Alton Brown will return as host alongwith beginner Kristen Kish, who you may keepinmind as the Season 10 “Top Chef” winner. And, of course, no “Iron Chef” program would be total without Mark Dacascos, who’ll reprise his function as “The Chairman.”

Before the statement, throughout an interview with USA TODAY about his last “Good Eats” cookbook, Brown spoke about desiring to return to Kitchen Stadium.

“I’d love to make more ‘Iron Chef’ episodes duetothefactthat that was like going to graduate school for me and I’d like to go back for my PhD,” he stated in April.

Brown and Dacascos helmed “Iron Chef America” for 13 seasons on Food Network where Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Jose Garces and Masaharu Morimoto were amongst the Iron Chefs. Like the Netflix variation, it was based on the popular Japanese format established by Fuji Television Network.

Netflix’s reboot, formally called “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” will be a bingeable set of 8, 45-minute episodes that will release weekly. Five yet-to-be-announced Iron Chefs will be pitted versus Challenger Chefs and be “pushed to the limitations of endurance and imagination,” according to a release. The most effective opposition will return in a grand ending fight to be called the veryfirst ever “Iron Legend.”

Netflix likewise prepares to release “Iron Chef Mexico” and “Iron Chef Brazil” this year.

Watch the teaser for Netflix’s “Iron Chef” reboot: