Kitchen Confidential (TV series)
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | David Hemingson |
| Based on |
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain |
| Starring |
Bradley Cooper Nicholas Brendon John Francis Daley Jaime King Bonnie Somerville Owain Yeoman |
| Theme music composer | Mark Walk |
| Composer(s) |
Daniel Licht Mark Killian |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | David Hemingson Jim Rosenthal Darren Star |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hemingson Entertainment Darren Star Productions New Line Television 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 19 – December 5, 2005 |
Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley Cooper played the Anthony Bourdain-inspired lead character, Jack Bourdain.
After the show's first three episodes aired on Fox, the show was put on hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. In November 2005, Fox announced the show would not air during sweeps and that only 13 episodes would be produced as it was only averaging 4 million viewers. The show returned on December 5, 2005, with its fourth episode, but only received 3.38 million viewers. Four days later, Fox announced the cancellation of the series.
On May 22, 2007, 20th Century Fox released Kitchen Confidential: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 2-disc set contains all 13 episodes of the series as well as audio commentaries on the series premiere by Darren Star, David Hemingson and Bradley Cooper, on the series finale by Karine Rosenthal, David Hemingson, Bradley Cooper and Dean Lopata and two featurettes – "A Tour of the Nolita Restaurant" and "A Recipe for Comedy".
In June 2006, all 13 episodes aired on Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK. In March 2006, the series aired on the Seven Network in Australia, but the 13 episodes were aired out of order due to various Easter specials in April. In December 2006, the series aired on TV3 in New Zealand. In February 2007, the series began to air on The Comedy Channel in Australia. In the spring and summer of 2009, the series aired on Kuchnia.tv in Poland (titled Kill Grill). In November 2009, all 13 episodes aired on Fox Life in Japan. The series has also aired in India, the Netherlands, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Italy.
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