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Hell's Kitchen Season 4
marigold:
--- Quote from: apskip on May 16, 2008, 10:29:38 PM ---I think we had a taste of how Ramsay uses such judges in the HK3 Finale. They are just freaking placehohlders whose job is clearly to make sure the score gets and stays tied so that the heavy hitters can make the real decision. It's all phony baloney. They could hire a monkey to do the same job!
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:funny: OMG that’s funny apskip
I would be perfectly willing to wager the monkey knowing the difference between a nectarine and a pineapple or tofu over real meat for that matter.
marigold:
... an interesting article
Fox will try to “accelerate” Survivor’s demise by airing Moment of Truth, Hell’s Kitchen against it
Next season, Survivor will face a challenge that the show hasn’t seen before, as Fox will air its two biggest non-American Idol reality shows against it. Moment of Truth will face off against Survivor Gabon in the fall and Hell’s Kitchen will air opposite season 18 of the CBS reality series next spring.
The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd reports that “Fox is gunning to finally take down CBS’ ‘Survivor.’ Fox has lined up its second and third-highest rated reality shows to air head-to-head against CBS’ veteran hit.” While “‘Survivor’ has owned its Thursdays at 8 p.m. time period the last couple years,” and networks “keep their more significant reality shows out of its way,” “Thursdays command the highest ad rates” and “Fox routinely comes in fourth place on the richest night of the week.”
Fox executive Peter Liguori told the paper, “Look, it’s eroding! It’s an older show. Its eventually going to give up and were trying to accelerate that.” The network was encouraged to try it because when Survivor aired on Wednesday night, Moment of Truth aired opposite it and won.
I may just be hoping against the downfall of Western civilization, but I can’t imagine Moment of Truth will be successful in unseating CBS’ marquee reality series. For one, it doesn’t have anywhere near the shelf life of Survivor. The show mostly wastes time, and ends right at the most interesting part: when the contestants face consequences for their revelations. While it started strong with 23.2 million viewers, that episode had American Idol as a lead-in, and it lost viewers as its season went on.
By the time Moment of Truth’s season ended, 10.162 million viewers were watching, a huge drop, while Survivor Micronesia had 12.870 million viewers that same week, according to TV by the Numbers. As of May 11, Survivor Micronesia had a season-to-date average of 14,280,000 viewers, while Moment of Truth had 14,172,000, according to TV by the Numbers. That’s not a huge lead for CBS, but it’s still a lead.
I think the bigger problem is Hell’s Kitchen, which will air against Survivor 18 next spring. The two shows couldn’t be more different, of course. One involves strategy and requires some mental engagement on the part of viewers, while the other is basically an excuse to watch man yell at and insult a bunch of incompetent adults for an hour every week. Survivor tends to pull weaker numbers in the spring, and Hell’s Kitchen was watched by 14.01 million people last Tuesday, although it had American Idol as a lead-in, which it won’t on Thursday nights.
The biggest question of all, though, may be whether or not this even matters. Those people with DVRs who want to watch both shows will just record both shows; others may watch one of the two online instead of on TV. For those of us who do watch TV in these newfangled ways, this show vs. show mentality is largely irrelevant, and seems to reflect old thinking about the way people consume television. The scheduling showdown may have an impact because not everyone records shows or watches online, but it seems pretty archaic to assume that scheduling one show against another means that everyone will just abandon one show for the other.
Source: http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_gabon/2008_May_19_fox_survivor_competition
apskip:
Today's paper has a listing for Hell's Kitchen with "chefs try to create 4 dishes using 20 ingredients." This sounds more like TopChef 4 than Hell's Kitchen 4, but it is clearly an important part of a chef's development. This will separate the better chefs from the lesser. Who knows, it may show that Matt is really the best. Chefs with better training like Bobby, Louross, Matt and maybe Petrozza should have the edge with this. Rosann is likely to be in trouble. Christina, Corey and Jen will all be in an intermediate group based on culinary background alone. It will be interesting to see how all chefs fare in this Challenge.
TexasLady:
This sounds like an interesting challenge, and the four you mention should do better. I'm waiting to see Petrozza shine. We saw a glimpse of his abilities when he had to do table side service but not much since. Louross took over the kitchen once and did well, Bobby has ability but he also let his team down in the beginning when he wouldn't help.
I meant to reply to another post but forgot to hit post and lost it. :groan: I think Ramsey pushes people to see how they take the stress and criticism. Some rise and meet or exceed his expectations and some get mad and stop talking or in Jen's case, sulk. I hope she does better this week.
marigold:
--- Quote from: apskip on May 20, 2008, 09:59:04 AM ---Today's paper has a listing for Hell's Kitchen with "chefs try to create 4 dishes using 20 ingredients." This sounds more like TopChef 4 than Hell's Kitchen 4, but it is clearly an important part of a chef's development. This will separate the better chefs from the lesser. Who knows, it may show that Matt is really the best. Chefs with better training like Bobby, Louross, Matt and maybe Petrozza should have the edge with this. Rosann is likely to be in trouble. Christina, Corey and Jen will all be in an intermediate group based on culinary background alone. It will be interesting to see how all chefs fare in this Challenge.
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Nice apskip thanks for sharing this information.
I am so looking forward to tonights episode and let's not forget the loss of Matt's finger tip :ascared
But clearly it's time for Rosann to step it up or get out of the kitchen and back to answering phones.
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