FACTOID # 92: One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.
 
 Home   Encyclopedia   Statistics   Countries A-Z   Flags   Maps   Education   Forum   FAQ   About 
 
WHAT'S NEW
RECENT ARTICLES
More Recent Articles »
 

FACTS & STATISTICS    Simple view

  1. Select countries to view: (hold down Control key and click to select several)

     

     

    Compare:

     

     

  1. Select fact or statistic: (* = graphable)

     

     

     

  2. (OPTIONAL) Compare to statistic: (both need to be graphable)

     

     

     

  3. View result as:

     

       
(OR) SEARCH ALL encyclopedia, stats & forums:   

Encyclopedia > Hell's Kitchen (US TV series)
Hell's Kitchen
Genre Reality
Created by Gordon Ramsay
Starring Gordon Ramsay
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 30
Production
Running time Approx. 42 minutes (60 minutes with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel FOX
Original run May 30, 2005 – Present
Chronology
Related shows Hell's Kitchen (UK TV series)
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Hell's Kitchen is the name of a cooking-based reality show. It is based on the original Hell's Kitchen, broadcast in the UK on ITV in 2004, featuring Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay. Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ... Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hells Kitchen (UK) is a British cookery-based ITV reality show starring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and presented by Angus Deayton. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... Hells Kitchen (UK) is a British cookery-based ITV reality show starring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and presented by Angus Deayton. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scottish can refer to: Look up Scottish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary (as an adjective) things to do with Scotland (see also Scots and Scotch) (as a noun) the Scottish people. ... Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ...


The show debuted its first season in May 2005 and has since debuted a new season in June of every year. FOX is currently casting contestants for the next season, the show's fourth.[1]

Contents

Format

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. It also airs across the world, in Finland on MTV3 ,Sweden on TV3, in the UK on ITV2, in Hong Kong on TVB Pearl, in Norway on ZTV, in Australia on LifeStyle Food, in Brazil on GloboSat GNT, and in the Netherlands on SBS 6. 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. Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Citytv is a Canadian English language privately owned television system owned by CHUM Limited. ... TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Modern Times Group (MTG). ... ITV2 is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ... TVB Pearl (無綫電視明珠台) is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. ... LifeStyle FOOD presents some of the hottest programs from here and around the world, all in one place, 24 hours a day every day of the week. ... Satellite Business Systems, abbreviated as SBS, was a company founded by IBM, Aetna, Comsat (and later purchased by MCI), that provided private professional satellite communications through its SBS fleet of geosynchronous satellites, and was the first company to do so. ...


The show was taped in Los Angeles at KCOP, in a converted former television broadcast facility that previously hosted shows such as The Joker's Wild and Tic-Tac-Dough in the late '70s to the mid '80s. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... // The Jokers Wild was an American game show of the 1970s and 1980s, billed as the game where knowledge is king and lady luck is queen. ... Tic Tac Dough, billed as everybodys game of strategy, knowledge and fun, was an American television game show where contestants answered trivia questions to earn squares on a tic tac toe board. ...


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 for most of the season; once the number of remaining players are small enough, they become a single black team and compete individually. The restaurant's Belgian maître d’, Jean-Philippe Susilovic, came from Petrus, one of Ramsay's London restaurants. Jean-Phillipe was also the maître 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. The maître dhôtel, literally master of the hall, in a suitably staffed restaurant, is the person in charge of assigning customers to tables in the establishment, and dividing the dining area into areas of responsibility for the various waiters on duty. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A sous chef is a chef ranking just below an executive chef or chef de cuisine. ...


Each episode includes 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 kitchen duty in preparation for the dinner service. During dinner service, teams are responsible for preparing food to Ramsay's very demanding taste and appearance requirements as well as within a limited time frame. Ramsay may throw away a complete dish due to one element being off, requiring the team to reprepare this dish. If Ramsey 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 completely shut down the dinner service prematurely. 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 so bad, 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 Ramsay makes the final decision, at which point the eliminated player hands over their chef's jacket.


When the competition is down to the final two players, Ramsay will split Hell's Kitchen into two sections, each their own separate restaurant, with each contestant allowed to choose the decoration, style, and menu for their restaurant. Six previously eliminated contestants return to help the two finalists to prepare the meals. Ramsay will use his observations of how the finalists worked 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.


The theme song of the show is "Fire" by the Ohio Players.


Seasons

Season 1: 2005

Main article: Hell's Kitchen (season 1)

The first season premiered on May 30, 2005 and was completed on August 1, 2005. The winner of this season was Michael Wray, while the runner-up was Ralph Pagano. This article contains contestant information and episode summaries from Season 1 of the American competitive reality television series Hells Kitchen. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


Season 2: 2006

Main article: Hell's Kitchen (season 2)

The second season premiered on June 12, 2006 and was completed on August 14, 2006. Starting this season, teams were divided by gender. The winner of this season was Heather West, while the runner-up was Virginia Dalbeck. This article contains contestant information and episode summaries from Season 2 of the American competitive reality television series Hells Kitchen. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Heather Marie West[1] is a chef working at the Terra Rossa Restaurant in the luxurious Red Rock Resort and Spa in Las Vegas. ...


Season 3: 2007

Main article: Hell's Kitchen (season 3)

The third season premiered on June 4, 2007 and was completed on August 13, 2007. The resturaunt got a makeover since last season. The winner of this season was Rock Harper, while the runner-up was Bonnie Muirhead. This article contains contestant information and episode summaries from Season 3 of the American competitive reality television series Hells Kitchen. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...


Profanity

Chef Ramsay yelling during a dinner service

Profanity by Ramsay, at the chefs, and sometimes 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. Image File history File links HK_Gordon. ... Image File history File links HK_Gordon. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The US Bill of Rights guarantees the rights of citizens to speak and publish freely. ... A bleep censor is used to filter out inappropriate audio content during a live United States the Federal Communications Commission has the constitutional right to regulate indecent broadcasts. ... Pixelization is a video- and image-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution. ...


In Australia and in the Netherlands, all the profane language is transmitted uncensored. After the season is complete it is aired in the UK a few months later. It airs after the UK 9pm watershed and therefore all profanity is also transmitted uncensored.


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, he finds the humiliation entertaining and often funny. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Andy Dehnart. ... Boot Camp is a software assistant made available by Apple Inc. ...


To cite an example, Dehnart writes that Ramsay replied to a rude 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?" Another example is when a chef misheard an order, forcing Chef Ramsay to repeat it. Ramsay yelled, "Would you like me to fucking email that to your BlackBerry? Move your arse!"[2] The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ...


References

The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ...

External links



 

COMMENTARY     


Share your thoughts, questions and commentary here
Your name
Your comments
Please enter the 5-letter protection code

Want to know more?
Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums:

 


Lesson Plans | Student Area | Student FAQ | Reviews | Press Releases |  Feeds | Contact
The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL.
Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.
All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved.
Usage implies agreement with terms.