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Gordon Ramsay ending Kitchen Nightmares

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From his website:
As filming comes to a close on the latest series of Kitchen Nightmares I've decided to stop making the show.

I'm currently filming 4 new episodes, Costa Del Nightmares, for Channel 4 which will be my last. I've had a phenomenal 10 years making 123 episodes, 12 seasons, shot across 2 continents, watched by tens of millions of people and sold to over 150 countries. It’s been a blast but it's time to call it a day.

Starting in 2004 this was the show that really propelled my TV career and I'm very grateful for the amazing team behind the series and for the support from the viewers for almost over a decade! From the first episode which aired in April 2004 with over 5 million viewers we're now 12 seasons later and it's been an amazing journey. In 2007 we took the show to America on Fox and they've just finished airing series 7 this summer. During this time I've visited over 100 restaurants, meeting and trying to help or in some cases failing to help, some of the most weird and wonderful people. Of course Amy's Baking Company is a standout along with Bonaparte's but there were good times too; the lovely sisters at La Galleria and Momma Cherri's to name but two.

I'd like to thank you all for being so supportive. I'm glad I've been able to entertain and hopefully help a few people along the way. It's sad to say goodbye to Kitchen Nightmares but I'll be continuing with my other shows. It's been memorable! Thank you for watching.


FACTS FROM OVER THE YEARS

Kitchen Nightmares ran for 10 years
123 restaurants in 99 cities within 2 countries were visited
If you watched all episodes back-to-back it would run for 6,868 minutes
Episodes sold into 150 territories globally
The Kitchen Nightmares format was produced locally for 30 territories around the world
Swear count – 10,197
The show brought in $37.3 million in ad revenue during the 2012-13 season – more than any other Friday FOX original series that season
The show was the most viewed TV show across networks during the Friday time slot
Tears – 0.4 gallons
Meltdowns - 27
Walkouts - 1
Mice – 1
Meows – 6
First ever episode was watched by 5.7 million people
2 ulcers and 2.3 litres of Pepto Bismol
234 Zantacs consumed
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http://www.gordonramsay.com/news/announcement/

Shut this thread down if old.
 
Shame to see it go, but I can understand why. It's had a really good run and I can imagine he wants to move onto more things.
 
This show has a very simple formula. Restaurant sucks, Ramsay tell the owners it sucks, there is resistance to change, people swear at each other, Ramsay makes the restaurant better.

There is one thing that's interesting about this. There's a bunch of recaps and episodes where he goes back to restaurants to see how they're doing; a surprising number of them saw improvements, but still got sold or closed down because the economy tanked a few years ago.
 
Aw, the wife and I are going to miss this show.

What will FOX air now to give me my weekly (almost daily) Gordon Ramsay fix?
More Hotel Hell episodes?
 
Not that sad, the american ones were pretty awful.

I'll have to check out the Costa Del Nightmares though, if Channel 4 ordered them they might be closer to the original series.
 
What about the most important statistic: Number of Restaurants that are still doing well after Ramsay's golden touch?
 
I liked both of them, but the UK version was so much better. More personal, and played much less for laughs and shocks. Shame there's so little of it compared to the overblown US version.
 
Guess I'll have to settle for Bar Rescue now as my sole restaurant train-wreck show.

I don't blame Gordon really, I would imagine he might want to focus on something else, 10 years is a good run, and I've enjoyed the show, but I can see why he would want to stop.
 
Oh, that sucks. I'll miss the UK version. There was a very personal feel to the show that I didn't think possible coming from Gordon Ramsay (guy who's known for screaming and yelling).

The US version was kind of shitty and fell into my expectations for what I expected the UK version to be though. At least there was that one episode with Amy's Baking Company; I felt there were legitimate issues with the people working there.
 
OneEightZero said:
Wait. Is the British series still airing? I thought that stopped quite some time ago.
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It ended before the US series started, but he's doing one final short series in spain with british ex-pats. Since channel 4 commisioned it, hopefully all the silliness of the last few years will be gone.
 
Dabanton said:
The british version was more serious the US version was hilarious though the amount of OTT 'drama' injected into it.
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That's the problem with most US versions of anything, all the fake drama and "whoos" every 30 seconds.
 
True the British version is the better version, but the US version has had its great bad moments. Aside from Amy's Baking Company, Blackberry's and Sebastians stand out to me as the better episodes of the series.
 
Htown said:
There is one thing that's interesting about this. There's a bunch of recaps and episodes where he goes back to restaurants to see how they're doing; a surprising number of them saw improvements, but still got sold or closed down because the economy tanked a few years ago.
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Yeah, many went up in smoke during the 2009-2011 drop. Which goes to show how volatile a restaurant business is, even when properly run.
 
I really hope he just chills out for a few years, then returns to doing excellent cooking programmes again, something along the lines of his Ultimate Cookery Course.

Too much of his career has focused on American programming where ultimately the cookery takes a back-seat, in favour of trying to make the audience feel something for a bunch of grown ass adults acting like back-stabbing little children.

Masterchef Australia? A bunch of adults who genuinely seem to like each other, working together and trying their hardest to cook the best dishes possible.

Masterchef USA? A bunch of adults who almost always despise each other, bickering and fighting to try to make it look like they don't have the personality of a fruit fly, oh and there's some cooking in there as well.

Same goes for Kitchen Nightmares in the US. Same goes for Hell's Kitchen in the US. All just leaves a sour taste in my mouth especially when the likes of Anthony Bourdain does so well in the States without having to resort to drumming up drama. Hell even Robert Irvine doesn't do it with Restaurant Impossible and he ends up in bigger shit-holes than Ramsay ever has.
 
TitusGroan said:
...how can soup be dry?
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It's amazing how everyone around him becomes an idiot.
 
Htown said:
This show has a very simple formula. Restaurant sucks, Ramsay tell the owners it sucks, there is resistance to change, people swear at each other, Ramsay makes the restaurant better.

There is one thing that's interesting about this. There's a bunch of recaps and episodes where he goes back to restaurants to see how they're doing; a surprising number of them saw improvements, but still got sold or closed down because the economy tanked a few years ago.
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Restaurants are generally a terrible, risky, irrational investment. I read a statistic that basically the vast majority fail.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going to miss it. Even if it had gotten predictable. At least we still have Master Chef and Hell's Kitchen at least.
 
glaringradio said:
If he had any self-respect left he would end MasterChef. And Hell's Kitchen. Then return to actually doing what he's best at.
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I don't think Master Chef is ever going to end, even if Gordon leaves. It's like Top Chef and Iron Chef, but on FOX. I've also heard it's consistently one of their top shows.
 
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