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| Hell's Kitchen | |
|---|---|
 Title Card for Hell's Kitchen | |
| Created by | Gordon Ramsay |
| Starring | Gordon Ramsay Scott Leibfried Mary Ann Salcedo (seasons 1-3) Gloria Felix (season 4-) Jean-Philippe Susilovic |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 47 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Granada America; A. Smith & Co. |
| Running time | Approx. 42 minutes (60 minutes with commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | FOX |
| Release | May 30, 2005 – present |
| Related | |
| Hell's Kitchen (UK) | |
Hell's Kitchen is an American reality-television cooking competition, based on a series of the same name, broadcast in the UK.
The program's first season debuted in May 2005 with subsequent seasons debuting in June 2006, June 2007, April 2008 and January 2009.
On September 11, 2008, FOX announced that Hell's Kitchen would return for a sixth and seventh season, along with the fifth announced earlier in the year. FOX also renewed Chef Ramsay's other series, Kitchen Nightmares, for a third season; as well as picked up a new Gordon Ramsay series.[1]
Format
The format of the program is similar to the UK version, with a red team and a blue team competing in various cooking challenges for most of the season; once the number of remaining contestants is reduced to five (or six in Season 4), the two teams combine to become a single black team and compete individually.
Each episode begins with a team or individual challenge; the winning chef or player may get a reward, while the losing team or players are required to perform some form of manual labor, usually consisting of kitchen duty in preparation for the dinner service. During dinner service, teams are responsible for preparing food to Chef Gordon Ramsay's very demanding taste and appearance requirements as well as within a limited time frame. Ramsay may throw away an entire plate of food due to one element being off and usually sends a barrage of insults and obscenities to the responsible player or team and requiring the team to re-prepare this dish or the entire table if necessary. If Ramsay sees failure in the kitchen, he may force one player to take over for another. If the entire kitchen is in a debacle, Ramsay may shut down the dinner service prematurely, often using his catchphrase "Shut it down!" After the dinner service, Ramsay will select the winning team who may get an additional reward, and then will select the best player on the losing team to make a decision about which two fellow teammates to nominate for elimination. Alternatively, if the service is exceptionally bad (or good), Ramsay may declare no team the winner, or no specific player on the losing team as the best, requiring the team(s) to nominate someone for elimination. When the game is down to a single team but still more than three people, the winning player will select the two to be nominated. Each nominated player has a chance to plead their case to Ramsay, but he makes the final decision, at which point the eliminated player hands over their chef's jacket. On rare occasions, if one player's performance is especially bad, Ramsay may even eliminate them in the middle of the service.
When the competition is down to the final two players, Ramsay splits Hell's Kitchen dining area into two sections, and each of the two final contestants runs their own restaurant; each contestant is allowed to choose the decoration, style, and menu for his or her restaurant. Six previously eliminated contestants return to help the two finalists to prepare the meals. Ramsay will use his observations of how the finalists work in the kitchen and with their teams, as well as feedback from the patrons of each restaurant, to select the ultimate winner of the show.
Main cast
The show is narrated by Jason Thompson. The restaurant's Belgian maître d', Jean-Philippe Susilovic, comes from Petrus, one of Chef Ramsay's London restaurants. Jean-Phillipe was also the maître d' for the first UK series of Hell's Kitchen.
Each team also has the services of one of two sous-chefs. For seasons 1-3, they were Scott Leibfried and MaryAnn Salcedo. In Season 4, MaryAnn was replaced by Gloria Felix.
Broadcasting
The theme song of the show is "Fire" by the Ohio Players.
Profanity by Chef Ramsay at the chefs, and sometimes even at the customers, is quite frequent on the show. Due to regulations in the United States regarding profanity and broadcasting, the episodes as aired in the United States employ bleep censoring and pixelization to mask the profanity.
In Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Finland, Korea, Netherlands, Ireland, Mexico and Brazil, all the profane language is transmitted uncensored.[citation needed] After the season is complete it is aired in the UK a few months later, as Hell's Kitchen USA. It airs after the UK 9pm watershed and therefore all profanity is also transmitted uncensored. However, it is often repeated at around 8pm a couple of days later, and that version is censored.[2]
In Poland, the fourth season is currently broadcast by TVN Style. The channel also broadcasted season three. The first and second season were broadcast in Poland by Polsat and kuchnia.tv.
In Australia it was axed after only about 3 weeks on the Nine Network in June 2007, supposedly due to the very foul profanity, losing viewers to major rival Seven Network. However, in April 2008, Channel Nine began broadcasting the first season from the beginning, in conjunction with the UK-based Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Seasons 1-3 were screened on the 'Lifestyle Food' network (via pay TV) in early 2008, and season 4 started on the 19th Sept 2008, also on Lifestyle Food.
In Canada, it is aired on CityTV, simulcast with the FOX network, and is censored. Reruns air on the Canadian Food Network; originally broadcast uncensored, more recently the bleeped FOX version has been shown.
Hell's Kitchen is also being shown in Malaysia on ntv7, every Sunday at 10:45p.m.
In Bulgaria it is aired on Nova+ and Nova Television.
Seasons
Season 1: 2005
The first season premiered on May 30, 2005 and concluded on August 1, 2005. The winner was Michael Wray; he accepted an offer to work with Ramsay in London, but later chose not to go. Wray was formerly the head chef at Tatou in Los Angeles, CA.[3]
Season 2: 2006
The second season premiered on June 12, 2006 and concluded on August 14, 2006. Beginning this season, the teams were divided by gender. The winner was Heather West; she was named senior chef of Terra Rossa at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino. Her contract has currently expired and she is now a chef at the Broadway Grill in Seattle, Washington.
Season 3: 2007
The third season premiered on June 4, 2007 and concluded on August 13, 2007. The winner of this season was Rahman "Rock" Harper; he was named head chef of Green Valley Ranch's Terra Verde. Currently, he is no longer a day-to-day chef with the restaurant, and is instead handling public relations for Terra Verde and the Green Valley Ranch Resort.
Season 4: 2008
The fourth season premiered on April 1, 2008, an earlier start due to scheduling for the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. This season has fifteen contestants, rather than the usual twelve. The grand prize was Executive chef under Gordon Ramsay at the London in West Hollywood with a $250,000 salary.[4][5] The season finale episodes of this season aired July 1, 2008 and July 8, 2008. This season's winner was Christina Machamer, a 25 year-old culinary student from St. Louis, Missouri.
Season 5: 2009
The fifth season premiered on January 29, 2009. There are 16 chefs.[6] This season was filmed back-to-back in 2008 with season 4.[citation needed] The winner will be employed at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey with a $250,000 salary.
DVD releases
On April 8, 2008, Visual Entertainment released Season 1 of Hell's Kitchen on DVD in Region 1. [1]
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
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| Hell's Kitchen: Season 1 | 10 | April 8, 2008 |
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Video games based on the series
| Hells Kitchen: The Game | |
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| Developer(s) | Ubisoft |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, Wii, Windows |
| Release | September 11, 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Sim |
On September 11, 2008, Ubisoft released "Hell's Kitchen: The Game" for the Nintendo DS, Windows and Wii, which features the likeness of Chef Ramsay, and the many important tasks shown in the U.S. version of the show. [citation needed]
References
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992083.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
- ^ http://www.itv.com/TVGuide/TextOnly/default.html?tvgPageNumber=1&tvgChannelName=ITV%202&tvgDayOffset=3 See 20.00
- ^ Eater LA: Tatou: Where's Michael Wray?
- ^ Scattergood, Amy (2008-05-01). "Gordon Ramsay L.A. reservation line is open!". LA Times. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Gordon Ramsay opens news restaurant in West Hollywood". Yahoo. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Hell's Kitchen season 5 premieres Jan. 29". Fans of Reality TV. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
External links
- Official Website at FOX.com
- Hell's Kitchen (U.S.) at IMDb
- Template:Tv.com
- Hell's Kitchen USA at itv.com
- Hell's Kitchen: The Game - official website