Are Hell’s Kitchen’s terrible chefs cast just for Gordon Ramsay to yell at? Is production setting them up to fail? I asked its executive producer.
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Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior producer Arthur Smith has a new book out, Reach, and in it, tells a story of conflict with Gordon Ramsay during Hell’s Kitchen dinner service.
“This is honestly my favorite season since season five,” Hell’s Kitchen showrunner Kenny Rosen told me. In this interview, read his answers to my questions about everything from casting the show to editing, and also about the show’s move to Las Vegas for season 19.
16 Hell’s Kitchen contestants will return for Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen season 17, the Gordon Ramsay-hosted show’s first-ever all-star season.
Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay’s first Fox show, debuted 10 years ago today, on May 30, 2005. It’s now in its 14th season and has aired more than 200 episodes, and outlived Ramsay’s other show, Kitchen Nightmares, which ended last year but premiered two years after the red team and blue team first faced off in …
Hell’s Kitchen has a long history of not giving its announced prize to its winner, a practice Gordon Ramsay has defended. But season 11 contestant Ja’Nel Witt isn’t taking the prize for a mysterious reason that one tabloid says has to do with cocaine. Production company ITV Studios released this statement last week about her …
Gordon Ramsay has discussed what is obvious and not at all surprising to viewers of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen: the show is stocked with cannon fodder, contestants placed there just for their personalities, there to be torn to shreds by Ramsay. In an Emmy magazine profile, Ramsay refers to “the muppets I have to work with. …