Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
| Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares | |
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| Starring | Gordon Ramsay |
| Narrated by | Gordon Ramsay |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 36 (28 originals and 8 revisits) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) (Season 1 & 2) 1080i (HDTV) (Season 3 – Season 7) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 27 April 2004 – 14 October 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Kitchen Nightmares Pesadilla en la cocina |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television program featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004.
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them.
An American adaptation of this show, titled Kitchen Nightmares, debuted 19 September 2007, on Fox. It is broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA.
In October 2009 Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with Kitchen Nightmares and would instead work on his other shows. In June 2014, however, Ramsay announced that the UK version would return for four episodes after a seven-year hiatus. The show has won BAFTA and Emmy awards.
Ramsay quickly identifies the restaurant as having two major issues; firstly, the fine dining menu has no appeal to the mostly working-class locals, and secondly the head chef, 21-year-old Tim Gray is inexperienced and out of his depth, evidenced when he firstly proves unable to make an omelette, and then when he unwittingly serves Ramsay expired scallops which cause him to vomit. Ramsay shows Tim how to buy cheaper produce from the Leeds Kirkgate Market and helps him make a meal for his family, though is still concerned when Tim botches the meal. Despite this, Tim is successfully able to serve a new bistro menu to nearly fifty guests on Valentine's Day, leaving Ramsay hopeful for the restaurant's future.
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