Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares series on BBC has been co-opted by Fox, which will be airing a US version to start Fall of this year.
If it remains even vaguely true to the BBC version, this will be a wildly entertaining show for anyone interested in restaurant life, without the contest aspect of so many train-wreck reality shows.
It's scheduled for 9pm on Thursdays, which sucks. Opposite all those major network big-hitters Nightmares will probably find little traction and quick-trigger Fox will undoubtedly pull the plug halfway through the season. We should start a letter-writing campaign now.
This article appears in May 23-29, 2007.