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Kitchen Nightmares on FOX

2007, TV Show

Kitchen Nightmares: TV Guide News

A reality series following chef Gordon Ramsay's attempts to turn around troubled restaurants. Based on the popular British show.

November Sweeps for Dummies: Fox Edition | Today's News: Our Take | 11/3/2008

Herewith, a condensed version of Fox's November sweeps calendar. See what's coming up on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison Break, House, Bones and, yes, 24.
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Ratings: Bigger Brother, Hot Flashpoint and More | Today's News: Our Take | 9/12/2008
Thursday's ratings highlights:• The penultimate installment of Big Brother 10 delivered 7.93 million total viewers, a week-to-week gain of 24 percent. • An audience of 5.37 million squeezed Hole in the Wall into their schedule, a slight improvement on the gamer's most recent sneak peek.• Kitchen Nightmares' regular time-period premiere ruled the 9 pm demos and trailed only a CSI repeat in total viewers (with 6.14 million).• Flashpoint, long-benched by this convention and that one, returned to an audience of 8.55 million — an 18 percent increase over its previous outing and a series high.Next week: Smallville and Supernatural return to the mix. (I just got the SPN premiere, cannot wait to pop it in!) — Matt Mitovich read more be the first to leave a comment
Ratings: Criminal Minds Leaves Addison Hanging | Today's News: Our Take | 11/15/2007
Lots to talk about with this Wednesday's ratings, so let's jump into it!8 pm/ETPushing Daisies topped the hour in total viewers (8.88 million) and demos, growing 300 thou from its last fresh entry. Kid Nation (7.53 mil, up 380K) placed second, followed by Fox's Back to You (7.3 mil) and 'Til Death (7.36 mil), each of which gained about 900K. Behind Phenomenon, Top Model (5.35 mil) added 280 thou and hit a season high in demos.9 pmCriminal Minds surged 1.16 mil to deliver its largest audience (15.7 mil) since Feb. 7, as well as top Private Practice (11.45 mi, up 220K) for the first time ever in the demos. Kitchen Nightmares drew a series high of 6.98 mil, followed by Bionic Woman (6.3 mil, down another 140 thou). Gossip Girl (2.93 mil) gained 430 thou to enjoy its best outing since the premiere.10 pmCSI: NY inched up 170K, to 13.04 mil, and won the demos. Dirty Sexy Money (8.2 mil) dipped 180 thou, while NBC's Life came to life with a 530K increase. read more
Fox's Nightmares Continues as One of the CW's Ends | Today's News: Our Take | 10/18/2007
Your favorite local eatery has been warned. Fox has placed its order for a second season of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, which in its freshman run has improved on its time slot's year-ago delivery by 21 percent in key demos.Conversely, The CW has given the hook to Online Nation. The "what's hot on this Internet thing" series has been drawing roughly the population of the last Mitovich family reunion. Its Sundays-at-7:30 pm slot will be filled with encores of Aliens in America. read more
I decided to give Fox's ... | Matt Roush | 10/1/2007
Question: I decided to give Fox's Kitchen Nightmares a try. I knew coming into the show that Gordon Ramsay's conversations were going to be mostly shrouded in bleeps, but after watching the show, I think that more words were bleeped out than actually made it through. I understand that we want to keep reality shows, well, real. But I think TV in general needs to come up with a better solution. The music/radio industry, for example, kindly removes the words as if they were never there. Yet on TV, we get this loud, obnoxious sound that can be heard above all other noises in the house, as if to draw attention to the fact that something bad has just been said. Do you think that the TV industry will ever do away with the bleeps and just have a muted line instead? Or at the very least, make that stupid "beep" about a quarter of the volume that we are currently subjected to? Answer: So it's the bleeps you're objecting to, not Ramsay's profligate swearing? Clearly, he and Fox and most of ... read more