MasterChef Australia
The British format remade at far greater length, and for several years the most watched thing on Australian television.
MasterChef Australia kept one opening title sequence, 54 seconds long, across season 2.
At 54 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Network Ten in 2009, when H2O: Just Add Water was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 2
54sFan upload of the 2010 opening title, which is the second season's rather than the first.
More documentary opening titles from the 2000s
1 sequence
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- Season 10
2 sequences
Survivor
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- Season 1
- Season 50
1 sequenceHell's Kitchen
Flames, a skull made of a chef's hat, and Gordon Ramsay shouting — the titles tell you exactly what the hour is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRuPaul's Drag Race
Eighteen seconds that get remade every season — new logo treatment, new track, new set of queens.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Idol
The talent format that ran American primetime for a decade, opening on a spotlight and a logo that spins.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Top Gear
Twenty-one seconds of engine noise and a rock riff — a motoring programme that opens like a trailer for itself.
- Season 1
- Season 23