Top Chef Masters

In case you haven't heard, Top Chef is mixing things up a little bit to follow up on what I found to be a pretty disappointing sixth season. Looks like this next season is going to feature already established chefs (many of whom have appeared in previous seasons as guest judges) competing for the title of Master Top Chef. My first reaction is to be pretty skeptical- usually when "celebrities" compete in reality shows (see: "The Apprentice", "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here", etc) they don't really try that hard. I guess it will depend on what Bravo's offering the winner. A lot of these guys are probably egomaniacs, so that will help, but I think Bravo's going to have to do a little better than 10,000 bucks to the winner's favorite charity.

Update: To everyone's relief, Ted Allen will not be a judge. I guess he was too busy being a waste of space on literally every other food/fashion/design show on television