BBQ Pitmasters is an American reality television series which follows barbecue cooks as they compete for cash and prizes in barbecue cooking competitions. The series premiered on TLC on December 3, The eight-episode first season was filmed in a docu-reality format, as it followed several competing BBQ teams around the country to various BBQ contests. Season two premiered on August 12, , at 10 pm EDT featuring a completely new competition game show-based format.
Challenges included common protein and more exotic meat. On April 4, , it was announced that Season 3 would air on Destination America , which is a rebranded version of the Planet Green channel that launched on May 26, The episode first aired on May 31, This new reality show uses the old docu-reality format of BBQ Pitmasters season 1 many viewers had voiced their preference for this format on the channel's website , in which Myron Mixon is one of the team competitors rather than a BBQ judge.
In this season, three teams compete in each episode. This season features individual regional BBQ style competitions. Each episode crowned a regional champion of the BBQ style for that state. There is no overall BBQ champion at the end of season 4. The last episode has Myron Mixon competing against his son Michael.
This season the BBQ competition returns to the previous elimination format. Three teams from around the country compete in each episode, and the winning teams advance to the finale. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. American reality TV series. Series overview [ edit ]. Season 1 [ edit ]. The teams compete at one of the most difficult competitions of the year, the Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-off, in Murphysboro, Illinois.
Myron and Lee Ann face off in the whole hog competition, while tempers flare between Johnny and one of the local cooks. The teams travel to Decatur, Alabama to the historic Decatur Riverfest. Myron has to compete against his biggest competition on the barbecue competition circuit, Chris Lilly, and Rookie Paul begs for help from barbecue professional, Johnny Trigg.
