Kitchen Nightmares-related stories
Posted Nov 25th 2009 11:03AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, American Idol, The Simpsons, Reality-Free, Glee
It's strange that not only is it almost 2010 but it's the end of the decade.
The end of a year also means that it's time for the midseason shows to make their appearance. We already know that
Chuck and
Lost are coming back (January and February, respectively) and now FOX has announced their midseason schedule. After the jump, full details on when we'll see the return of Jack Bauer, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsay, reality shows, new shows, and special episodes of your favorites.
Continue reading FOX announces midseason schedule
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 Aug 16th 2009 1:16PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
If you think this image of french fries looks delicious and appetizing, this post is for you.
There are so many cooking shows and food competition shows, everything from
Hell's Kitchen to
Top Chef to
Man v. Food, but there's a new one that started up recently that I'm really, really enjoying. Maybe because it's just about the joy of eating! Whatever the reason,
The Best Thing I Ever Ate is a winner.
Continue reading Yummy TV: The Best Thing I Ever Ate
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 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 May 18th 2009 12:59PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Programming, 24, House, The Simpsons, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fringe, Dollhouse
Fox showed some surprising stability in its schedule (our network is growing up) for the 2009-2010 season. But they are bringing in four new comedies, two dramas and a late night Saturday show.
Returning Summer: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, Don't Forget the Lyrics!, So You Think You Can Dance Returning Fall/Winter: 24, American Dad, American Idol, Bones, Dollhouse,, Family Guy, Fringe, House, Kitchen Nightmares, Lie to Me, The Simpsons, 'Til Death (for some reason),
So You Think You Can Dance (yeah, two separate seasons summer and fall)
Gone: Do Not Disturb, King of the Hill (though there's still episodes in the can which will air sometime next year),
Prison Break (a 2-hour film is being produced that may air next year),
Sit Down Shut Up, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles New: Brothers, The Cleveland Show, Glee (sneak peek tomorrow),
Human Target, Past Life, Sons of Tucson, The Wanda Sykes Show (late night Saturdays)
The schedule and some details on the new shows after the jump.
Continue reading The Upfronts: Fox
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 Jan 15th 2009 4:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- At 8:00, the major networks and the news channels will have President Bush's address to the nation.
- The CW has new episodes of Smallville and Supernatural starting at 8.
- Discovery has a new HowStuffWorks at 8.
- Also at 8: TCM has The Naked City.
- At 8:30, NBC has a new episodes of My Name Is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER.
- At 9, ABC has a new Grey's Anatomy, followed by a new Private Practice.
- FOX has a new Kitchen Nightmares at 9.
- Hallmark has the movie Ladies of the House at 9.
- There's a new TNA Impact! on Spike at 9.
- At 9:15, CBS has a new CSI, then a new Eleventh Hour.
- At 10, A&E has the series premiere of The Beast.
- Food Network has a new Ace of Cakes at 10.
- VH-1 has the series premiere of Sober House at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk show s.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Smallville, The Office, Eleventh Hour, The Beast
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 Sep 22nd 2008 2:05AM by Maggie Furlong
Filed under: Entourage, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The name Jordan Belfi might not mean much to you, but if you watch
Entourage, you absolutely know Adam Davies. And, if Belfi's done his job right, you probably really hate the guy.
As the best-dressed nemesis on TV, Davies is the super-agent foil to most of Ari Gold's (Jeremy Piven) plans and schemes. And in a particularly conniving episode (airing Sun., Sept. 21 at 10PM), the Davies/Gold smack down reaches new heights. Or lows, depending on how you see it.
Belfi talked to us about his character's underhanded ways, his most devoted fans and why watching Gordon Ramsay vomit means must-see-TV in his house.
Continue reading Quick chat with Jordan Belfi of Entourage
Posted Sep 12th 2008 2:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Hell's Kitchen
Get ready for more bleeps and blurs on FOX.
FOX is so
impressed with Gordon Ramsay and the ratings for both
Hell's Kitchen and
Kitchen Nightmares that they've given the green light for a third series from the chef. And if I understand the concept for this series, then I think this is the start of Ramsay's demise.
The new show is going to be based on a British show that Ramsay does called
Man Camp, which I've never seen but is described as "a boot camp for men whose ladies are slightly concerned about how feminine they're becoming." Seriously? That's the premise of the show? Maybe if the men are becoming too feminine it's the women who should be sent to the boot camp.
Continue reading Gordon Ramsay to do a third series for FOX
Posted Sep 11th 2008 4:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, FOX has a new Hole in the Wall, then a new Kitchen Nightmares.- CBS has a new Big Brother at 8.
- Discovery has a new Some Assembly Required at 8.
- At 8:30, HGTV has a new Myles of Style.
- At 9, TLC has a new American Chopper.
- Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Island at 9.
- BBC America has a new Dragon's Den at 9.
- At 10, CBS has a new Flashpoint.
- USA has a new Burn Notice at 10.
- Food Network has a new Ace of Cakes at 10.
- Spike has a new TNA Impact at 10.
- Also at 10: MTV has the premiere of Top Pop Group.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Sep 4th 2008 4:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- It's the last night of the Republican National Convention, and the news channels, some PBS stations, and CSPAN will have all-night coverage. The networks join in at 10.
- NBC has football at 7, the Redskins vs. the Giants.
- At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother.
- FOX has the two-hour season premiere of Kitchen Nightmares at 8.
- USA finishes their coverage of the U.S. Open at 8.
- Discovery Channel has two new episodes of Some Assembly Required at 8, then a new Destroyed in Seconds.
- At 10, Comedy Central has a new Gong Show, followed by a new Reality Bites Back.
- Sundance Channel has a new Live From Abbey Road at 10.
- Also at 10: Spike has a new TNA Impact.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Sep 1st 2008 10:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Early Looks
It's rather interesting, when you think about it, that chef Gordon Ramsay has not one but two shows on FOX,
Hell's Kitchen and
Kitchen Nightmares. And this isn't like Rachael Ray having 22 different shows. She has a show that is syndicated to many stations around the county, and her other shows are on a cable station, Food Network, where she is a brand and one of the top stars. FOX is a major network, with not as many time slots as a cable station, so FOX must really believe in Ramsay to give him shows that air year-round, not just in one season.
Fans of the first season are going to be particularly interested in what happens on the very first episode.
Continue reading Kitchen Nightmares season 2 - an early look
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