Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: first airdate!
Update: airdate has changed
Fox has announced the premiere of Kitchen Nightmares USA, a new reality series that will follow sharp-tongued British Hell’s Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay as he travels across America and helps restaurants in crisis.
Kitchen Nightmares, which Fox previously announced would air as part of the network’s Fall 2007 primetime programming line-up, will debut Thursday, September 13 at 9PM ET/PT.
Each one-hour Kitchen Nightmares episode will see Ramsay visit a different struggling American food establishment. After arriving at the restaurant in crisis, Ramsay will motivate the owners and bully the kitchen’s brigade in an attempt to reverse the fortunes of each struggling restaurant in just one week. Whether he’ll save them from their current nightmare or just create a new one will depend on how the establishment’s lazy cooks and moody wait staff respond.
Kitchen Nightmares, which was first announced in January and is an American adaptation of the Hell’s Kitchen star’s British Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares reality series, has already garnered some attention for its format.
Last month, Martin Hyde, the former general manager of Dillons Indian restaurant in Manhattan’s theater district, filed a lawsuit requesting a judge block the broadcast of the episode he appears in due to the negative image Kitchen Nightmares depicts both he and the eatery in. Hyde apparently loses his job in the episode at Ramsay’s request.