Hell's Kitchen - Everything You Want To Know
June 3, 2007
Hell's Kitchen is a cooking-based reality show. It is based on the original Hell's Kitchen, broadcast in the UK on ITV1 in 2004, featuring chef Gordon Ramsay.
The first American season aired in the United States on FOX in 2005, while the second season started with two back-to-back episodes on June 12, 2006. The third season of the US version is scheduled to premiere on June 4, 2007. The UK also airs the American version of Hell's Kitchen on ITV 2.
The US version of Hell's Kitchen, also starring Gordon Ramsay, is broadcast on the FOX television network. In Canada, the show is simulcast on Citytv, in Sweden aired on TV3, and in Australia, on LifeStyle Food. The first season of the show, shown during the summer of 2005, featured 12 ordinary people (some with chef and restaurant experience, some without) competing to own a "million-dollar restaurant" of their own.
Chef Gordon Ramsay
The show was taped at KCOP - UPN 13 (now My13), a converted former television broadcast facility (which previously hosted the Barry & Enright game shows The Joker's Wild & Tic-Tac-Dough in the late '70's to the mid 80's) located at 915 North La Brea Avenue at the corner of Willoughby Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
The format of the program was the same as the UK version, with a red team and a blue team competing in various cooking challenges. The restaurant's Belgian maitre d’, Jean Philippe Susilovic, came from Petrus, one of Ramsay's London restaurants. Jean Phillipe was also the maitre d’ for the first UK series of Hell's Kitchen. Each team also had the services of one of two sous-chefs: Scott Leibfried and Mary Ann Salcedo.
Diners are recruited by producers to "try a new restaurant." Diners must sign the usual TV-related non-disclosure agreements. Diners do not pay for dinner; on the contrary, each diner receives $50 for their evening.
Critical Reception
Reality television journalist, Andy Dehnart has called Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen television series a boot camp for aspiring chefs and has stated that the show is mostly about humiliation. However, Dehnart finds the humiliation entertaining and often funny. To cite an example, he writes that Ramsay replied to a customer who asked for more pumpkin by saying, "Right. Well, I’ll get you more pumpkin and I’ll ram it right up your fucking arse! Would you like it whole or diced?" Also, after a chef, Gabe, misheard an order, forcing Chef Ramsey to repeat it, Ramsey yelled, "Would you like me to e-mail that to your fucking BlackBerry? Move your arse!"
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