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Top Chef is an American reality competition television series which premiered on March 8, 2006, on Bravo. The show features chefs competing against each other in various culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway.[2]

The show has spawned multiple spinoff series, including Top Chef Masters, featuring established award-winning chefs; and Top Chef: Just Desserts, featuring pastry chefs. Another show, Top Chef Junior, featuring contestants in their early teens, was scheduled for a 2008 debut but never aired.[3] Numerous international adaptations of Top Chef have also been produced.

The series' fourteenth season, which takes place in Charleston, South Carolina, premiered on December 1, 2016.[4] On January 24, 2017, it was announced that Bravo had renewed Top Chef for a fifteenth season