Masterchef: The Professionals 2014 - the enormously popular, BAFTA-award winning competition for professional chefs - returns to BBC Two on November, 4 for its seventh series.

Across the seven week run, the professional chefs are once again tested, challenged and pushed to the edge of their gastronomic limits, in the hunt for the next culinary superstar.

Marcus Wareing joins Monica Galetti and MasterChef’s seasoned diner Gregg Wallace, together they will search for the chef who has the skills, commitment, palate and style to push them to the top of their demanding industry. Monica Galetti said: “What makes the Professional series so exciting is that for these chefs it's their trade and they want to prove just what they can do, how creative they can be and the extent of their skills set.

"This is their opportunity to really demonstrate the extent of their experience and potential and I expect them to impress me - when they do, the competition gets seriously exciting! Gregg Wallace added: “Mediocrity is no friend of Professional MasterChef. You either go for it or you go home!”

Forty chefs from kitchens all over Britain compete in the heat stages, which run over the first four weeks with only the best making it through to Thursday’s quarter final. Every week, Thursday’s quarter final begins with the six best chefs from the heats battling in an invention test. Failure to impress will cost them; after judging their dishes, Marcus and Monica decide who can continue in the competition and who must go home. The Semi Finals, running across two weeks, begin with the final twelve chefs competing in pairs.

Firstly each pair are sent to one of Britain’s most famous Michelin starred restaurants to cook a busy lunch service under the Head Chef, and then recreate their Michelin-starred signature dish for