BBQ Pitmasters

BBQ Pitmasters is an American reality television series about competitive barbecue, following teams of barbecue cooks as they compete for cash and prizes in cooking contests. It premiered on TLC on December 3, 2009, and its eight-episode first season was filmed in a docu-reality style that followed several competing teams around the country to various barbecue contests. The second season, which premiered on August 12, 2010, switched to a game show style competition in which four teams met each week, with Myron Mixon, Art Smith and Warren Sapp as judges and Kevin Roberts as host. The third season was announced for Destination America, and later seasons returned to an elimination format with a grand champion. A related series, BBQ Pit Wars, previewed on Destination America in May 2014 using the older docu-reality format of the first season, with Myron Mixon as one of the competing teams rather than a judge.