Gordon Ramsay-related stories
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 4:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, OpEd
Fox's master foodie is at it again.
Gordon Ramsay has conjured up a new show called MasterChef, only it's not really his idea. See, it's already been done in England and Australia, but Gordon will put his spin on this show. So for all intents and purposes, it's another Gordon Ramsay project. (Like the Alan Parsons Project without Alan Parsons and a small 'p').
In
MasterChef, amateur chefs will compete to master the perfect dish. These will be everyday people, not sous chefs or short order cooks, but backyard grillers and homemakers who have a specialty at which they excel. Sounds to me a bit like the
Food Network Challenge shows in which people try to make the best chili or the definitive hamburger.
Continue reading Gordon Ramsay cooks up new show
Posted Oct 14th 2009 1:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Watercooler Talk
I haven't watched this season of
Hell's Kitchen since the second episode. But I have them all recorded just in case I wanted to get back into it and maybe I'll take one of these weekend days and do a marathon. Of course, since I'm writing this post I already know who won, but it won't ruin the season for me. It's all about the journey (and a chef yelling at people).
So were you surprised by who won?
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Posted Sep 26th 2009 4:26PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Celebrities, Casting
As if
Hell's Kitchen and
Kitchen Nightmares weren't enough, Gordon Ramsay will be hosting another television show called
Gordon Ramsay, At Your Service. Only this time, the show
will be stop-motion animation by the same team that brought you
Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV, Cuppa Coffee Studios.
This idea is reminiscent of those Saturday morning cartoons that would involve a fictional world surrounding a particular celebrity, usually Jackie Chan or Mr. T. or someone like that. Will Gordon Ramsay moonlight as a chef by day and solve crimes at night? Will he fight food-based super-villains? Will his kitchen be his high-tech headquarters where everything is operated by ladle? Will he face down with other celebrity chefs like Emeril or Rachael Ray?
Given his penchant for strong language, I suspect either this will be shopped to one of the channels of more adult content (HBO, Showtime, etc.) or every word coming out of Ramsay's clay mouth would be a beep.
Posted Sep 19th 2009 12:24AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Talk Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Yesterday, Leno mocked "Cash for Clunkers" by mocking up a "Cash for Flunkers" video. Tonight he tapped the same well with a "Cash for Chunkers" joke. I guess that's common in the late night arena, but I've never been a fan of using the same exact set-up on different nights to get a different joke. Unless you acknowledge how weak it is when you do it.
Tonight's correspondent was
The Hangover's Rachael Harris, who came on to show us the lost art of bartering in this tough economic times. Like most of the other correspondent segments, it had some funny moments, but it just seemed to go on forever.
Continue reading The Jay Leno Show: Drew Barrymore
Posted Sep 16th 2009 4:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- ESPN2 has WNBA Basketball Playoffs all night.
- At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by new episodes of Crash Course and Primetime: The Outsiders.
- NBC has a new, two-hour America's Got Talent at 8, then a new Jay Leno Show.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, followed by a new Glee.
- The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8, then the series premiere of The Beautiful Life.
- There's a new Live From Lincoln Center on PBS at 8, with the New York Philharmonic.
- Spike has a new, two-hour UFC Fight Night at 8, followed by a new Ultimate Fighter.
- Cartoon Network has a new Bobb'e Says at 8, then a new Dude, What Would Happen?
- At 9, TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.
- Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, followed by a new Destination Truth.
- History Channel has a new Nostradamus Effect at 9, then a new MysteryQuest.
- BBC America has a new Gordon Ramsay's F Word at 9.
- At 10, TNT has the season finale of Dark Blue.
- Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas at 10.
- MTV has a new Real World at 10.
- Travel Channel has a new Man vs. Food at 10.
- TruTV has a new Black Gold at 10.
- Also at 10: Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Crash Course, The Beautiful Life, Top Chef, Black Gold
Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Video
Remember when Tek was voted off of
Hell's Kitchen a few weeks ago? Then what the hell was she doing working in the kitchen on this week's episode?
This wasn't one of those deals where a former contestant comes back to help the remaining contestants for some reason, this was... odd. They didn't interview her or point her out and Ramsay didn't say "Tek, what the hell are you doing here, you donkey?! Didn't I kick you out? And how did you get your chef's jacket back? Jean-Philippe, what's going on?"
Continue reading Is Hell's Kitchen doing some creative editing?
Posted Aug 19th 2009 4:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.- FOX has Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage at 8.
- NBC has two new episodes of America's Got Talent at 8.
- Nickelodeon has another new Glenn Martin, DDS at 8.
- Cartoon Network has a new Bobb'e Says, then new episodes of Dude What Would Happen? and The Othersiders.
- At 9, Bravo has the season premiere of Top Chef: Las Vegas, followed by the season finale of Top Chef Masters.
- TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns at 9.
- TNT has a new Leverage at 9, then a new Dark Blue.
- Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
- There's a new Dog The Bounty Hunter on A&E at 9, followed by a new Criss Angel Mindfreak.
- History Channel has a new MonsterQuest at 9.
- BBC America has a new Gordon Ramsay's F Word at 9.
- Also at 9: Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters.
- At 10, MTV has a new episode of The Real World.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Michael & Michael Have Issues.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Top Chef, Leverage, Ghost Hunters, Meet the Browns
Posted Aug 11th 2009 2:30PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Talk Show, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free, Mad Men, TV Squad Ten
As usual, I've come back from the TCA press tour with a voice recorder full of great interviews and a brain made of mush. Because of the mush-brain part, I'm sure I'll go back and listen to some of the interviews and find that the ones I thought were full of golden nuggets of wit turn out to be full of nothing but platitudes.
That's okay, though; the tour was a lot of fun and I got to talk to a lot of interesting people. I mean, where else can you talk to Maria from
Sesame Street, Alan Alda, Norman Lear, and Patti Smith.... all in the same day? It's amazing who you feel empowered to talk to when you have a press credential around your neck and a voice recorder in your hand.
But I also learned a bunch of other things during the tour, mostly about the upcoming season, but also a few other things as well:
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Things I learned at the TCAs
Posted Aug 7th 2009 10:00AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
While reading
Joel's account of the Fox media panel, I was curious about the announcement of a
new special called Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live. It sounds like a variation on Food Network's
Emeril Live or
Paula's Party, but hopefully, it'll be a lot better. And perhaps we'll get to see the
Gordon Ramsay Fox has not revealed up to now.
Unless you've been living in a cave the past five years or so, you know that celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has emerged as one of the biggest stars on TV. But if you only watch Gordon on his Fox TV shows --
Hell's Kitchen and
Kitchen Nightmares -- you've only seen one side of the bellicose chef. On those shows, he's a screaming, cursing, demanding, hard-driving taskmaster. He's compelling, but you wouldn't want to be on the other side of one of his verbal tongue-lashings.
Continue reading Will Fox let us see the other Gordon Ramsay?
Posted Aug 6th 2009 12:15PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: The Simpsons, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
It's Fox day, at the TCAs, and they've started the day by giving us some announcements:
- Guest voices on the 21st season of The Simpsons will include: Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Anne Hathaway, Chris Martin, Sarah Silverman, Angela Bassett, Chuck Liddell, Jackie Mason, Neve Campbell, Eli and Payton Manning, Bob Costas, and the late Eartha Kitt.
- From November 9 through November 15, Fox will hold a Simpsons "scavenger hunt" with clues scattered through their programming.
- Gordon Ramsay will conduct a live one-hour cooking demonstration on December 15 at 9 ET. The show is called Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live.
- Finally, Britney Spears will receive the "Ultimate Choice" award at the Teen Choice Awards.
More stuff to come during the day. Of course, for the latest,
follow our Twitter feed.
Posted Aug 5th 2009 11:55AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Watercooler Talk
I'm not even sure I want to watch this show anymore. I will because I'm kinda invested in it, but I'm getting sick of the formula and Ramsay's screaming (and the screaming of others) just seems half for show, half real. Last night he yelled at Bobby for swearing and yelling in the kitchen in front of customers. Yeah chef, we wouldn't want to have any of
that in Hell's Kitchen.
What did everyone else think?
Posted Jul 29th 2009 8:02AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Watercooler Talk
As it turns out, Joseph really
is a bitch.
So last night we had the big resolution of the Ramsay/Joseph confrontation. Kind of an anti-climax, really, though. Fans who thought that Joseph would stay around in some way might be disappointed.
But is this show getting too crazy, too predictable, too "reality show-ish?" I don't want to see swearing and yelling just to have some swearing and yelling, and most of these cooks just seem too immature. I'm actually thinking about not watching it anymore. Next week is going to have to impress me.
Posted Jul 27th 2009 11:05AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY
One thing I'd like to see on certain TV shows are follow-ups to stories. Specifically I'm talking about real-life shows like
Cops or design shows. Another show I'd add to the list is
Kitchen Nightmares, the FOX (and Channel 4) show that has Gordon Ramsay going into restaurants and helping them get their act together.
Some episodes of the show feature Ramsay visiting the place weeks or a few months later, but I'd like to see the restaurants a year or two later, to see if they're still doing things Ramsay's way or not (and if they're still in business).
Continue reading Some Kitchen Nightmares restaurants survive, some don't
Posted Jul 24th 2009 4:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Subtle Subtitles, Reality-Free
If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption!
Last week's winner is ac with this caption:
"Now I remember why I never watched C-SPAN."This week's photo is from this week's
Hell's Kitchen, the end-of-the-second-episode confrontation between Chef Ramsay and contestant Joseph:
Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:02AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Watercooler Talk
"I'm not no bitch!" - Joseph
Yeah, me not no bitch either. Me talk good! This might be the oddest bunch of
Hell's Kitchen contestants yet. So much food sent out raw. Why? You know that Chef Ramsay is just going to send it back and you'll have to redo it so you're not hurrying up the process and getting food served. Everyone is arguing, and there are more threats of violence in this episode than in other seasons (including one to Ramsay - cliffhanger!).
The show seems to be a lot of BS now (Ramsay swearing because that's his thing, contestants picked because of controversy or lack of skills, the editing, etc) but it's still entertaining. What did you think? (Video of the cliffhanger after the jump.)
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