Hell's Kitchen

[juboy]

Anyone see this last night? The premise looked interesting and some of the 'celebrities' also appeared worth watching but it all just seemed as much of an unsuccessful mess as most of the meals the trainee chefs dished up.



I think the problem was pacing, they kept flitting about between earlier training and the live action. Sure, Gordon Ramsey swore a lot and seemed to get genuinely annoyed a couple of times but the celebs just didn't seem to give a monkeys, which kind of ruins the whole premise.



The worst thing is that after watching it, I don't really see how it can get any more interesting. In fact, if they all do manage to get their act together it'll just be like watching a normal restaurant do their thing, ie, like watching paint dry.

[Tee .]

I've been watching it and enjoying it! It astounds me that these celebrities have alowed themselves to be made to look like such idiots! They must have known what Ramsey is like, why are some of them acting so surpised when he shouts and screams at them??

[Dimmy]

I've been watching it and enjoying it! It astounds me that these celebrities have alowed themselves to be made to look like such idiots! They must have known what Ramsey is like, why are some of them acting so surpised when he shouts and screams at them??




It's ITV, they'll be whispering to the *Celebrities* "Act shocked when he shouts at you" and they'll be whispering to Ramsey "Shout at them!".



Typical ITV dribble and a prime example of why I don't even bother to tune the channel in on my television anymore, hate it with an absolute passion.

[rOAdeh]

finding it quite dull really.. as juboy says they keep switching between live and past events which just makes the whole program seem unnecessarily long..



'Amazingly a group of 'G' list celebrities can't cook like proper chefs do and as a result everything goes horribly wrong and gordon would rather have people leave out of frustration than serve a bad meal...' serve and repeat for 2 weeks until ratings crash to all time lows.



his channel 4 show was much more entertaining - as it was actually about people who worked in the trade and whose livelihood depended on the success of the restaurant - this just seems to be a quick pr boost to the flailing careers of either complete unknowns or instantly forgotten media figures.

[CarlB]

I agree that the channel 4 programme 'Kitchen Nightmares' was great viewing, but this mess is just too contrived to be enjoyable.



All the complaining celebrities, the returned dinners and closing of the restaurant, it's all just too staged. These are people who can't cook, and yet Gordon has a massively complex menu of the kind he was eschewing in 'Kitchen Nightmares'. If he thought trained chefs in 'Nightmares' couldn't handle that sort of menu then it's obvious a bunch of 'celebrities' with a week of training will fail.



Which, of course, is exactly what ITV wants.



Anyone can see that if he really wanted the restaurant to 'work', you would give someone a station and they would be on that station all week or whatever, then they would at least have a chance of getting good at a dish and turning out some reasonable food. Unfortunately that would probably not make for good TV (as defined by ITV) so we have to suffer the insults to our intelligence that ITV continue to serve up.



Send it back. Overcooked and leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.