British TV series
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
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Starring
| Gordon Ramsay
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Narrated by
| Gordon Ramsay
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Country of origin
| United Kingdom
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Original language
| English
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No.
of series
| 7
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No.
of episodes
| 35 (27 originals and 8 revisits)
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Running time
| 47?49 minutes
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Network
| Channel 4
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Release
| 27 April 2004
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2004-04-27
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14 October 2014
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2014-10-14
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Kitchen Nightmares
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef
Gordon Ramsay
first broadcast on
Channel 4
in 2004.
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a
troubleshooter
to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited
; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them.
An American adaptation of this show, titled
Kitchen Nightmares
, debuted 19 September 2007 on
Fox
. It is broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA
to avoid confusion with the original title. Its run ended on 12 September 2014.
[1]
In October 2009, Ramsay announced that after his four-year
contract
expired in 2011 he would not continue with
Kitchen Nightmares
and would instead work on his other shows.
[2]
Despite this, the show returned for one last series in 2014 (retitled as
Ramsay's Costa del Nightmares
) where Ramsay visited and helped failing restaurants owned by Britons abroad. The final series also coincided with the ending of the US version after seven seasons (which was later revived for an eighth season in 2023). The show has won
BAFTA
and
Emmy
awards.
Series overview
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Episodes
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Series 1
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Series 2
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Series 3
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Series 4
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Series 5
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Ramsay's Great British Nightmare
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A one-off, two-hour special entitled
Ramsay's Great British Nightmare
was broadcast on 30 January 2009 as part of The Great British Food Fight, a two-week series of food-related programming on Channel 4. In the programme, Ramsay campaigned for viewers to start supporting local restaurants, especially in a bad economy.
Ramsay's Costa del Nightmares
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Libel
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In June 2006, Ramsay won a
High Court
case against the
Evening Standard
, which had alleged that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant had been faked for the first episode of
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
. These allegations followed reports from the previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs.
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Ramsay said at the time: "I won't let people write anything they want to about me. We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way."
Reception
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The programme received favourable reviews for its in-depth look into the restaurant industry. Jane Redfem of
Off the Telly
commented that the show "could have been cynically designed to exploit Ramsay's foul-mouthed reputation... But watch, listen and think about what he is saying, and his genuine commitment to his profession in general, and the task at hand become abundantly evident."
[4]
Lorna Martin of
The Observer
said "
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
is compulsive viewing ? packed with excitement, emotion and entertainment."
[5]
Slate's
Sara Dickerman was impressed by the show's "economic realism" in the tired food television genre. She wrote, "There is something refreshing about a show that doesn't promise a ticket to ride (a surgical makeover, a million dollars,
Richard Branson
's job) but instead offers restaurant owners the hope?if they seriously reform their establishments?that they might, just might, break even for the next few months."
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
was named Best Feature at the
2005
[7]
and
2008 BAFTA
awards.
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It also earned the 2006
International Emmy
for best non-scripted entertainment.
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DVD releases
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United States
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On 3 March 2009,
Acorn Media
released series 1 of
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
on DVD in the US. Series 2 was released on 1 September 2009.
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares DVD news: Box Art for Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - The Complete Series 2 | TVShowsOnDVD.com
Name
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Ep#
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Release Date
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Season One
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8
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3 March 2009
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Season Two
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10
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1 September 2009
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Canada
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For the Canadian market,
Visual Entertainment
has released the first three series of
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
on DVD in two volume sets.
Name
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Ep#
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Release Date
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Volume 1
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8
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16 October 2007
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Volume 2
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10
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7 October 2008
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International versions
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Currently airing
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New season coming
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No longer in production
References
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"Scoop: Kitchen Nightmares - *Season Finale* on Fox - Friday, September 12, 2014"
.
BroadwayWorld.com
. Retrieved
20 October
2021
.
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Weinstein, Shelli (23 June 2014).
"Gordon Ramsay to End 'Kitchen Nightmares' Series in U.S. and U.K."
Variety.com
. Retrieved
8 September
2018
.
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"Chef Ramsay wins £75,000 damages"
.
BBC News
. 20 June 2006.
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"Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares"
.
Off the Telly
. 14 April 2004. Archived from
the original
on 28 November 2011
. Retrieved
19 September
2010
.
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Martin, Lorna (9 May 2004).
"What happened after Gordon said goodbye?"
.
The Observer
. London
. Retrieved
21 September
2007
.
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"Bloody Hell's Kitchen"
.
Slate
. 5 January 2005
. Retrieved
21 September
2007
.
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a
b
"Fox announces Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' will air this fall"
.
Reality TV World
. 17 May 2007
. Retrieved
21 September
2007
.
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"Bafta TV Awards 2008: The winners"
.
BBC News
. 21 April 2008
. Retrieved
21 April
2008
.
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"DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic"
.
www.metacritic.com
. Archived from
the original
on 4 February 2013
. Retrieved
26 February
2021
.
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"DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic"
.
www.metacritic.com
. Archived from
the original
on 4 February 2013
. Retrieved
26 February
2021
.
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Knox, David (13 February 2022).
"Seven sets the table for Kitchen Nightmares"
.
TV Tonight
. Retrieved
22 February
2022
.
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Knox, David (27 September 2022).
"Airdate: Kitchen Nightmares Australia"
.
TV Tonight
. Retrieved
27 September
2022
.
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"Novo programa de Erick Jacquin na Band estreia em Janeiro"
(in Portuguese). 21 November 2016
. Retrieved
21 November
2016
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"Pesadilla en la cocina"
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
27 April
2016
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"Jezikova juha"
(in Croatian)
. Retrieved
21 May
2013
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"Ano, ?efe!"
(in Czech)
. Retrieved
31 July
2013
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"Med kniven for struben"
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TV3
(in Danish)
. Retrieved
28 April
2013
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"Koogikubjas"
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Kanal2
(in Estonian)
. Retrieved
18 April
2013
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"Kuppilat kuntoon, Jyrki Sukula!"
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Nelonen
(in Finnish)
. Retrieved
19 April
2021
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"Kuppilat kuntoon, Hans Valimaki!"
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Nelonen
(in Finnish)
. Retrieved
19 April
2021
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"Cauchemar en cuisine sans Ramsay, ce serait comme C'est pas sorcier sans Jamy"
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L'Express Culture
(in French). 30 May 2012
. Retrieved
11 October
2012
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"Rach, der Restauranttester"
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rtl.de
(in German)
. Retrieved
7 July
2013
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"Steffen Henssler ist der neue RTL-"Restauranttester"
"
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express.de
(in German)
. Retrieved
13 July
2015
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"Rosins Restaurants"
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kabeleins.de
(in German). 9 June 2022
. Retrieved
20 August
2022
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"Alpha TV - ΕΦΙΑΛΤΗΣ! ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΥΖΙΝΑ"
. Archived from
the original
on 29 September 2013
. Retrieved
24 March
2016
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"Israel's top chef talks food and fame"
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Timesofisrael.com
. Retrieved
8 September
2018
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"Cucine da incubo ? ogni mercoledi alle 21.55"
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Foxlife.it
(in Italian). Archived from
the original
on 6 June 2013
. Retrieved
20 May
2013
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"Fikk Hellstrøm pa beøsøk -- Kjærligheten blomstrer"
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vg.no
(in Norwegian). September 2011
. Retrieved
7 August
2017
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"Kuchenne rewolucje"
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TVN
(in Polish)
. Retrieved
29 May
2013
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"Pesadelo na Conzinhela - informacao comercial"
(PDF)
(in Portuguese).
TVI
. 20 May 2016.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on 12 August 2016
. Retrieved
30 June
2017
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На ножах
.
Pyatnitsa!
(in Russian)
. Retrieved
15 December
2019
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"Paklena kuhinja"
(in Serbian)
. Retrieved
4 October
2015
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"Ano, ?efe!"
(in Slovak)
. Retrieved
9 February
2014
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Mediaboom.sk (5 November 2022).
"Markiza prebrala Jojke dlhoro?ny format: Navrat na obrazovky hlasi kultova reality ?ou!"
.
Mediaboom.sk
(in Slovak)
. Retrieved
5 November
2022
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"Pesadilla en la cocina"
.
laSexta
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
16 October
2012
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"Kniven mot strupen"
.
TV3
(in Swedish). Archived from
the original
on 13 April 2013
. Retrieved
8 February
2013
.
- ^
"Nach 101 Sendungen hat Bumann ausgeschmaust: "Ich wollte mich so geben, wie ich bin, nicht bereit, alle Probleme schonzureden"
"
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LuzernerZeitung/CHMedia
(in German)
. Retrieved
29 September
2023
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"Bumann, der Restauranttester"
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3plus
(in German)
. Retrieved
31 October
2013
.
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На ножах
.
1+1
(in Ukrainian)
. Retrieved
29 May
2013
.
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