The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Export sales for television shows rose 25% last year to a new record of £980m compared with £633m in 2007. This year the trend looks set to continue with ITV dramas Lewis and Midsomer Murders, BBC1's Spooks and Gordon Ramsay's Channel 4 series Kitchen Nightmares proving popular. BBC2's cookery series Masterchef is also building up a following having been sold to the US network Fox and...
iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is in danger of losing two of his highly-rated eateries if he fails to pay his tax debts. U.K.'s HM Revenue and Customs asked the High Court for his restaurants as payment for his back taxes. The 43-year-old TV chef, who owns over 20 diners in the U.S. and U.K., was handed a two-week reprieve to pay his debts relating to his Maze restaurant in Mayfair, London and his Plane...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Gordon Ramsay, who has suffered a run of financial blows this year despite his celebrity chef status, faced further 'kitchen nightmares' yesterday when HM Revenue & Customs…
Accidental Sexiness (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Acclaimed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay held a book signing event today in London for his new book, World Kitchen . Ramsay, known for his outspoken and often foul-mouthed persona on TV shows such as “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Kitchen Nightmares,” took part in…
The TV addict (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
This afternoon FOX unveiled their 2010 midseason schedule. But fair warning — complete with disappointing surprise hiatuses (FRINGE, GLEE), two-night premieres (24, AMERICAN IDOL, HUMAN TARGET) and time slot-shifts (CLEVELAND SHOW, KITCHEN NIGHTMARES) — you’re most definitely going to have to be smarter than a fifth grader to decipher it. But hey, don’t take our [...]
Televisionary (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
FOX today announced their midseason plans for 2009-2010, unveiling a lineup that includes giving reincarnation drama Past Life the post-Bones slot on Thursday evenings (current occupant Fringe will be going on a prolonged hiatus for seven weeks), bringing Kitchen Nightmares back (on Friday nights this time around) and giving the post-Idol slot to new reality series Our Little Genius. MONDAYS: The network...
res pulchrae (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
had a very nice sunday - woke up to giada de laurentiis and alex guarnaschelli on the food network followed by gordon ramsay's kitchen nightmares and mary portas's "mary queen of shops" on bbc america; forgot it was the philadelphia marathon but managed to run my full route anyway, with a few detours; found a patisserie that was actually open on sundays and went later in the day when all...
Toronto Cosmetic Clinic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In a recent interview with the British magazine, Radio Times, Gordon Ramsay admitted that he got his chin fixed with the help of some cosmetic surgery. The fiery tv chef of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares filled out the deep crevices in his chin, caused by playing soccer, with some Restylane injections. Restylane, a hyaluronic acid [...] Gordon Ramsay Got Restylane is a post from: Toronto...
Media Decoder (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Gordon Ramsay, the British chef who already oversees "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares" on Fox, will host a new culinary competition for the network.
TV Envy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
FOX will be dishing out a third series featuring saucy Brit Gordon Ramsay . In addition to his duties at Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares , Ramsay will soon be starring in MasterChef . In the series, non-professional chefs will attempt to create dishes that Ramsay approves - a hard enough task even for the greatest cooks in the world. Expect swearing to ensue. Watch Ramsay destroying a chef...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Fox really loves them some Gordon Ramsay, so much he'll be on the network almost year round! In addition to Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon will be co-producing and starring in a new program titled MasterChef, where nonprofessional cooks compete to create perfect dishes. That can only mean one thing: lots of crying. Yes! Gordon [...]
Kitsch'n'Zinc (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
So last night I settled down in front of the telly to watch Sir Heston attack the dragon that is Little Chef, a chain of run down motorway diners in the UK. `There had been plenty of hype and it seemed a new twist of the Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares series. Would snail porridge find popularity with the motoring public or would they stick to greasy hard fried eggs, stringy bangers and soggy toast washed...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Grub Street reader Jeff Morton wrote in last week wondering if we knew anything about a show called Masterchef . "I checked out a couple of snippets of the show on YouTube over the weekend. It looks interesting and the cooking seems to be on a higher scale than some of the American shows. Also, those chefs can make some fabulous desserts. They don't have a Top Chef attitude towards them."...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Fox has ordered up "Master Chef," a new reality show that will pit amateur cooks against one another in a battle for culinary supremacy. Gordon Ramsay, star of the network's other food-centric hours, "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares," will co-produce...
Word of Mouth (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Gordon Ramsay returns tonight on Channel 4 - but has the sweary chef passed his TV sell-by date? Lucky us. Guess who's back tonight, swearing away on prime-time Channel 4 and generally being his usual shy and retiring self? Ramsay, of course. Oh Gordon, how we've missed you. Except actually, we haven't. The return of the F-Word (9pm) is less a cause for celebration, than an opportunity to ponder when...
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