Looks like FOX likes food, reality shows, and people who swear a lot.
The network has ordered another season of the Gordon Ramsay restaurant show Kitchen Nightmares. The show is in its first season right now, and is actually doing rather well considering it has been up against the hype of the new Bionic Woman, Criminal Minds, and the Grey's Anatomy spinoff Private Practice. This means we'll see a lot of Ramsay on FOX in the future, since Hell's Kitchen is on the network and does well in the ratings too.
I stopped watching Kitchen Nightmares after I saw the first two episodes before the show started. Wednesday nights are rather crowded (along with Monday and Thursday and...) and I just haven't recorded the show to watch later. But I really should get back into it. There are so many cooking reality shows on right now, and somehow The Next Iron Chef has gotten me hooked.
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10-17-2007 @ 2:16PM
Alexander Sernick said...
LOOOOOOOOOVE this show! Great news to start a Tuesday
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10-17-2007 @ 2:35PM
kevjohn said...
I've been flipping to this show during Bionic Woman commercial breaks. Even catching only small bits and pieces of this I know I've been watching the wrong show. This has more 'action' in each episode than B.W. has had all season.
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10-17-2007 @ 3:02PM
EbonyDad said...
My DVR is running full throttle on Wednesday at 8 pm. It is using both tuners. One for Bionic Woman and the other one for Kitchen Nightmares.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't have a DVR.
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10-17-2007 @ 3:07PM
David Talazs said...
Th show is nice, but as good as the BBC version, which is 10x's better. The Fox show has oo much BS, the "added in after the taping comments" aren't needed. Also, the BBC show doesn't have a narrator trying over dramatize things. Ramsey narrates on BBC and you learn so much more about the business and what should or shouldn't be done. Fox took a great show and made it worse. It's watchable, but a drop-off from the original.
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10-17-2007 @ 3:08PM
David Talazs said...
Bionic Woman, didn't we learn from the first one?...lol
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10-17-2007 @ 4:01PM
Ariff said...
I agree--this show is pathetic compared to the BBC version. It isn't even a reality show. Everything is put in place by the producers in advance and Gordon does just what he is told to do. In the BBC one, you feel like Gordon is making the decisions. This one feels like he is following the producers script. I stopped watching it.
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10-17-2007 @ 3:46PM
Sorceressss said...
I agree with the last two comments. The Fox version of this show cannot compare to the UK version. The voice over and the "drama" are horrible. Though Gordon gets upset in the UK version and does his fair share of swearing, I feel like the UK version is still calmer, more intimate and smarter than the Fox version.
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10-17-2007 @ 4:17PM
saint libido said...
i love this show. one of the only ones i'll watch week in and week out.
also been taping the new PRICE IS RIGHT and loving that also. I loved BOB BARKER but I never taped his shows...so that's my compliment to Drew!!!!
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10-17-2007 @ 4:08PM
ratphink said...
For those with DVR conflicts, Sci-Fi is now running the same Bionic Woman episode on Friday's, so I just record it then.
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10-17-2007 @ 4:14PM
Cody said...
I Tivo this one. Last Wednesday, the episode began at 9:00PM, and proceeded to have 4 minutes of "previously on Kitchen Nightmares", then 2 minutes of credits, the 2 minutes of "here's what will happen tonight". Then after a commercial break the actual show itself started at around 9:12PM. I was laughing so hard that they put that much filler crap into it.
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10-17-2007 @ 7:11PM
Oreo said...
This show makes me not to ever go out and eat again. :)
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11-09-2007 @ 12:40AM
DIRTY DOUG said...
K. nightmares is the only show I plan to watch. The BBC show was a bit dry and unseasoned.
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2-17-2008 @ 12:28AM
CHEESE CUTTER said...
David Talazs, Sorceressss.Cody, & Oreo ARE ALL QUEER AS TUNA FISH. i MEANT TRUMAN CAPOTE'S TUNA FISH. ALTHOUGH, WHEN TRUMAN CAPOTE DIED HE LEFT MOST OF HIS TUNA FISH TO HOMO David Talazs.
THANK YOU
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10-18-2007 @ 7:28AM
TV addict said...
This show was a major disappointment for me since I love the BBC version. The Fox version seems like a contrived makeover show, while in the BBC one, Gordon is actually making the management turnaround. I don't think there was a single giveaway in the BBC version, but in the Fox one Gordon gave one restaurant a new brand new stove, steam cleaned another one, and redid the decor on 2 others. Seems too easy!!
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10-18-2007 @ 9:43AM
midwich said...
The UK's Kitchen Nightmares was indeed excellent - but was shown on Channel 4, NOT the BBC.
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10-18-2007 @ 1:45PM
gt said...
i do like this show a lot
however, after watching 2 ep's, it does just seem like "Restaurant Makeover (now w/ cursing)"
my wife also noticed that the show editing is all over the place...for instance one scene he is about to eat his dinner, the flip to the kitchen and back and now he is sitting on the other side of the table (they had mirrored the video for some reason, as you could tell by the menu being backward). and in the past 2 ep's, at the end when they are celebrating, it is in the restaurants with the old decor, so it's like they're celebrating before he changes anything! really weird
i agree with the other poster that it makes me not want to eat out.
i'll have to give the bbc version a try if it's on bbca
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10-19-2007 @ 5:40PM
Cody said...
suddenly i'm in the mood for tuna fish
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10-20-2007 @ 3:35PM
Sylvia said...
I love kitchen nightmares and hells kitchen. I watch chef ramsey and record criminal minds on the dvr.
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