Kitchen Confidential (TV series)

Kitchen Confidential
Intertitle
Created by	David Hemingson
Starring	Bradley Cooper Nicholas Brendon John Francis Daley Jaime King Bonnie Somerville Owain Yeoman
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	David Hemingson Jim Rosenthal Darren Star
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 19 – December 5, 2005 (2005-12-05)

Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which debuted on September 19, 2005 on the Fox network. Bradley Cooper played the Anthony Bourdain-inspired lead character, Jack Bourdain.

History

The show's first two episodes on Fox in the U.S. did not earn strong ratings, and its run was then interrupted by Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. On November 11, Fox announced only 13 episodes would be produced. Four days after the fourth episode aired to dismal ratings on December 5, 2005, Fox cancelled the series outright. Currently all 13 episodes of the first season are available via Hulu, and also air outside the U.S.

Cast

Main cast

• Bradley Cooper as Jack Bourdain – executive chef
• Nicholas Brendon as Seth Richman – pastry chef
• John Francis Daley as Jim – rookie chef
• Jaime King as Tanya – maître d'
• Bonnie Somerville as Mimi – head waitress
• Owain Yeoman as Steven Daedalus – sous chef

The cast of Kitchen Confidential

Recurring cast

• John Cho as Teddy Wong – seafood chef
• Frank Langella as Pino – Nolita's owner
• Sam Pancake as Cameron – waiter
• Tessie Santiago as Donna – waitress
• Erinn Hayes as Becky Sharp – chef
• Frank Alvarez as Ramon – dishwasher

Episodes

Main article: List of Kitchen Confidential episodes

DVD release

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 and finale by Karine Rosenthal, Dave Hemingson, Bradley Cooper and Dean Lopata and two featurettes – "A Tour of the Nolita Restaurant" and "A Recipe for Comedy".

Airings outside the U.S.

In June 2006 the show came to Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK, which aired all 13 episodes, and the network has since been airing the show again in repeats. The series has also been aired on Seven Network in Australia around March 2006, but the 13 episodes were aired out of order due to various Easter specials in April. In December 2006, TV3 in New Zealand started to air the show to mixed reviews but good ratings. Starting in February 2007, the show began to air on The Comedy Channel in Australia.

Kitchen Confidential was shown in Poland (titled: Kill Grill) in the spring and summer of 2009 on the cooking channel KUCHNIA.TV. It has also aired in India, the Netherlands, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey (at CNBC-e) and Italy (at 6 AM).

Trivia

• The fourth episode "French Fight" guest-starred actor Michael Vartan as a chef with whom Jack and his colleagues start a feud. Vartan and Cooper had previously worked together on Alias, and paid homage to this in a character in joke whereby Bourdain says: "It's like we worked together before or something."
• John Cho was originally supposed to be a regular cast member rather than a recurring character.
• Oddly, the names of the characters includes two unexplained literary references: Jack's second-in-command is Stephen Dedalus, while his great rival/lover, a woman chef, is Becky Sharp.
• Kitchen Confidential was nominated for an IVy award for worst cancellation; the award went to Arrested Development.
• In the episode "An Affair to Remember" Stephen is seen wearing a jacket with "Hartlepool" printed across the back.
• In "The Robbery", the music in which the Party Bunny is dancing to is changed in the DVD version.
• The theme song was ghostwritten by Mark Walk of the band Skinny Puppy.

External links

• Kitchen Confidential at IMDb
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