GordonRamsay-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 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 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,
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Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:15AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Cancellations
It cannot come as a big surprise that NBC's reality series
The Chopping Block has been chopped after three episodes. The show started poorly in the ratings and have sunk lower in the subsequent two broadcasts.
Ratings alone aren't the reason for
The Chopping Block being sent back to the kitchen, or thrown down the garbage disposal, or any other food euphemism you might want to suggest.
The Chopping Block was dumped and deservedly so because it was not a good reality competition show.
Continue reading No surprise...NBC axes The Chopping Block
Posted Mar 16th 2009 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, TV Squad Lists
When it comes to cooking competition shows, the two that consistently make the grade are Bravo's
Top Chef and Fox's
Hell's Kitchen. But while the two shows are ostensibly both about aspiring chefs competing for a prime position -- to beat the competition and emerge as number one -- there are really more things about the shows that separate them.
In terms of quality competition, food expertise and cooking skills,
Top Chef is superior to
Hell's Kitchen. They're both fun to watch, and I have followed every season of each of them. But the main thing they have in common is the kitchen. Read my five reasons and see if you don't agree with me that
Top Chef has it all over
Hell's Kitchen.
Continue reading Five reasons why Top Chef tops Hell's Kitchen
Posted Mar 6th 2009 3:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Software, Reality-Free
If you're a wobbly-kneed, amateur chef with a tendency to wet your pants anytime someone's voice goes a few decibels higher in your direction, a good version of the
Hell's Kitchen video game should make you wish you put on your rubber pants before you started playing.
Unfortunately, the real version isn't even worth shelling out for the price of a pair of extra-large Depends.
The game lacks in just about every area imaginable, from gameplay to ambiance, most notably and disappointingly from the angry chef himself, whose mean stare can make puppies cry and anger spittle can burn a hole in your face like hot alien acid.
Continue reading Hell's Kitchen - video game review
Posted Jan 29th 2009 5:05PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities
I love British chef Gordon Ramsay. I love watching him on TV, whether it's his Fox shows --
Hell's Kitchen or
Kitchen Nightmares -- or the ones that have turned up on BBC America like
Ramsay's Boiling Point and the most recent show,
The F Word. The F stands for food, by the way. Much as I love him, though, I don't think I want him as a teacher.
Well, that's what he's going to be doing next. The Simon Cowell of cooking is plotting something new for the network.
Ramsay's doing a special cooking show for Fox in the Julia Child tradition, teaching how to do what he does. The idea is for Gordon to create a three-course dinner while giving home viewers instructions about how to do it with him.
Continue reading Gordon Ramsay plans another Fox food program
Posted Nov 27th 2008 11:35AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Episode Reviews
(S05E03) Three episodes in and while
Top Chef has been fun with really good challenges and interesting food, something is missing. Or maybe it just hasn't simmered to the surface yet. I'm talking about conflict, drama, hatred. Everybody is just too damn happy with each other.
I mean, last night the only nasty interaction was one chef flipping a finger at the other -- which Bravo actually blurred out, give me a break -- and Jamie commenting that she's fed up with Dave. Compared to previous seasons, that's pretty tame. Turn up the heat, guys and gals. Let's see that "too many cooks spoil the broth" energy.
Continue reading Top Chef: Foo Fighters
Posted Nov 13th 2008 11:29AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Late Night, The Shield, How I Met Your Mother, Celebrities, Dexter, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Mad Men, The Big Bang Theory
I was reading AOL TV's "
TV's 50 Hottest Hunks - Ever," and I was struck by two thoughts: "Ugh, can people really use the term, 'hunk' without shuddering?" and, "
David Boreanaz? Seriously?"
I get it. Television is populated with pretty people and there are just some guys who are objectively hot (
hellooooo,
Jon Hamm). Generally speaking though, I'm not drawn to the
Luke Perrys and
Mario Lopezes of the world. I like quirky guys, and so while most of the dudes on this list aren't going to make it into the
People magazine "Sexiest Man Alive" issue, they keep me tuning in every week (heh, that sounded totally dirty).
Follow me after the jump for the undercover hotties: ten guys on TV I secretly love.
Continue reading Undercover hotties: ten guys on TV I secretly love
Posted Aug 12th 2008 5:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Hell's Kitchen
You know why
Rachael Ray is smiling all the time? She's the richest food star in the world. According to the latest
Forbes list of top-earning celebrity chefs, Rachael Ray leads the pack. In fact, of the top 10 names, all but two are TV stars.
Therefore, you better believe that all that exposure on Food Network, Bravo, Travel Channel, Fine Living, BBC America, and Fox -- not to mention syndication and appearances on talk shows and demonstrations on the
Today Show -- makes a big difference.
Continue reading TV stars dominate Forbes's list of top-earning celeb chefs
Posted Jul 30th 2008 8:02AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Celebrities
Prickly, acerbic TV chef
Gordon Ramsay has probably racked up his share of enemies. However, I doubt that even he would have guessed that the one that would nearly lead to his demise would be the great and powerful ... uh, puffin. That is exactly what happened however, as Ramsay had a very close call while in Iceland shooting scenes for his British series,
The F Word.
Ramsay was out hunting puffins when he fell into icy water as he was making a 280 foot descent. His crew threw in a line after he failed to surface after 45 seconds. The experience had Ramsay thinking he was a "goner," saying,
"My boots and my waterproofs were dragging me down. I'm an extremely good swimmer, but I couldn't get to the surface. I was panicking and my lungs were filling with water. When I got to the top after getting my boots off I was dazed and my head was totally numb."Continue reading Puffin: 1 Gordon Ramsay: 0
Posted Jul 1st 2008 2:05PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Casting
Well, she's making over America one salon at a time. The former
Shear Genius contestant will be saving America's hair stylists in
Tabatha's Salon Takeover. She'll visit salons on both coasts that are in dire need of her direction. Coffey has just a week to work her magic.
This is the "hair version" of
Kitchen Nightmares. The press release goes on to say that her comments are mean and jarring. The salon owners and employees probably won't like her at first. But they'll realize that it's her passion and intensity that "drives her sincere quest to turn these salons around." After one week with Coffey, who started as a salon assistant when she was 14-years-old, we'll see dramatic results. Coffey will also recommend people to be fired and tell some of the better stylists that they should raise their rates.
Kitchen Nightmares, right? I'm not saying I wouldn't give this a try though. I like
Kitchen Nightmares.
Tabatha's Salon Takeover premieres Thursday August 21st at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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