The new commissions were announced today by Fiona Campbell, Controller BBC Three during a session at Edinburgh TV Festival.

Hungry For It is an 8 x 60 new competitive food format from BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions that gives ten aspiring cooks from across the UK, who are looking to carve out a career in the food industry the chance to skill up and put their talent to the test to win a life changing prize. Whilst Chatterbox will deliver ten more episodes of Meet the Khans following the knockout success of the first series on BBC Three.

Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC Three says: “We’re really excited that we have the Khans back for more and that we’re introducing a new food format to BBC Three. At its heart, Hungry For It is a show about the hospitality industry, a major source of employment and professional progression for our audience group. It’s an ambitious new format that has all the ingredients we love where aspiring competitors are given the opportunity to show they have what it takes to make it in the business - teamwork, flexibility and understanding customers as well as amazing food! Meet The Khans really brought something new to the channel and series one was really popular with the audience. Faryal and Amir are both stars in their own right and we’re really glad that they are opening up their doors to us for more.”

Hungry For It

BBC Three has commissioned an 8 x 60’ series, Hungry For It, an ambitious new competitive food format. The series gives 10 aspiring cooks from all over the UK, all desperate to carve out a career in the food industry, a chance to skill up and put their talent to the test, with one amateur cook winning a life changing prize. The chefs will live together in a house, whilst competing and creating amazing dishes, in an attempt to impress industry experts and mentors.

This exciting new competition plays out in two distinct spaces – a restaurant and a street-food inspired pop-up.

The series will be hosted by Stacey Dooley alongside two industry mentors who'll be judging - chef and rapper, Big Zuu, and personal chef to the stars, Kayla Greer.

It will be the mentors who decide who moves between the restaurant and the pop-up, based on their skills and performance in the challenges. During the course of the series our mentors will arm these novice chefs with an all-round skill set that should allow them to flourish in the industry, but Big Zuu and Kayla will also decide who isn’t cutting it in the kitchen, and who will face the head to head eliminator challenge.

Hungry For It brings captivating reality-style storytelling and intense competition together to deliver a distinctive new food competition for the BBC Three audience.

Stacey Dooley, says: "Just THRILLED to be presenting this series. I’ve always been delighted to be able to celebrate and showcase talent, particularly when those involved are given such incredible opportunities. Let's go! (Also, I’ve nominated myself HEAD TASTER).

Big Zuu, says: "Obviously I'm gassed to be working with BBC Three, doing something different with food. I'm excited to get into the programme and I'm happy to step out of my comfort zone and start a new challenge. Hopefully the people like it!"

Kayla, says: “I’ve been through it all in this industry - from starting with nothing and diving headfirst into culinary school to forming and growing my own successful company to being a sought-after personal chef to the stars, so I’m excited to be able to lend my experiences to the contestants to do their best work and see who comes out on top.”

Hungry For It (8x60’) for BBC Three and iPlayer is made by BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions. It was commissioned by Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three and Catherine Catton, Head of Commissioning, Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment. The Executive Producer is Mark Saben, Creative Director, Kat Lennox and Series Produced by Sue Agyeman and Tim Hancock. The Commissioning Editor is Ricky Cooper.

Meet the Khans
The first series of Meet The Khans had 6 million requests on BBC iPlayer and took the audience into the world of Olympic medallist and boxing World Champion Amir Khan and his fashion and beauty influencer wife, Faryal Makhdoom as they juggled parenthood, marriage and business.

The entertaining reality series proved a success and BBC Three has commissioned ten more thirty-minute episodes.

The next chapter of the story explores their wider sphere and the audience will be introduced to more of the couple’s family and friends as Amir ponders what’s next for him in sport, Faryal celebrates a milestone birthday and launches a new enterprise.

Amir and Faryal say: "We're excited about the new series - you'll have to wait and see what's next for us!"

Meet the Khans: Big In Bolton is an 10 x30' series made by Chatterbox. It was commissioned by Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three and Catherine Catton, Head of Commissioning, Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment. The Commissioning Editor for Popular Factual is Nasfim Haque, the Executive Producers are Nav Raman and Ali Quirk.