Wednesday, January 30, 2008
World of Wonder
Labels: BBC2, Channel 4, Kylie Minogue, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Wonderland
COOKERY! Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA, Channel 4, 10pm,
KY-ER-LIE! Kylie Video Exclusive, Chanel 4, 11:05pm
We have a sumptuous three course meal for you tonight. People of lowculture, don't say we don't spoil you.
Our appetiser is Wonderland which looks at couples who have formed relationships through Second Life. We're impressed they managed to use that thing at all. We tried it once and couldn't get our heads round it. Although it probably won't be as jaw dropping as My Fake Baby, it could still be intriguing enough to get the chat room fired up, and, if enough alcohol is consumed, maybe even launching an LC group in Second Life that will last, oooh, all of a week til everyone gets bored.
Your main course this evening is Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA. Whilst the show has become incredibly formulaic in the UK, the American version is an altogether more tantalising prospect. The two episodes shown thus far have featured some explosive characters, which has been nice, although the film style camerawork means the full horror of the grotty kitchens is less vivid than the UK version. Which is perhaps no bad thing as we have had to leave meals whilst watching Kitchen Nightmares in the past, so disgusted were we. Tonight's episode sees a restaurant in Long Island that has a debt of $1 million. Ouch.
For dessert tonight, Channel 4 have a very special treat for you. Tucked away after Gordon is the VIDEO EXCLUSIVE! for Kylie's 'Wow' (We'll ignore the fact that it has already leaked on the net). When this was announced as the second single, it caused, well, some ripples. Members of the forum were crying over this being favoured instead of 'In My Arms', 'The One' and 'No More Rain'. However, people have finally been just about won over by it, with Camden Pirate declairing it just about the best thing to ever be played in a nightclub.
It also seems a very long time ago since she performed this on The X Factor and it got added to the playlists of radio stations around the country (which it was). It has been on the chart on downloads alone for several weeks. And it still isn't released as a physical single yet. We only hope all this pre-promotion will give Kylie a bigger hit than 'Two Hearts' and won't backfire because everyone is already sick of the tune.
By the way, 'In My Arms' is the single in other parts of the world, and we thought you might like to see this video while you wait. Even if, as Nurse Dunkley pointed out that 'It's ok, but is let down in parts by Kylie wearing Roisin Murphy's old (and quite hideous) dress, along with the bits where Kylie was probably off playing cards or something and they had to get Gina G in to cover for her'.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Things ain't cooking in my kitchen
SHOUTING! Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Channel 4, 9pm Labels: Channel 4, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
We have to confess, much as we love Channel 4 programmes, we are less than impressed with the way they are treating them. Their website, once a really useful tool, never seems to put previews up these days (in the past few weeks we have failed to find info there about Comedy Connections, Britz and Boy A amongst other things). Their page for Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is no better, containing only recaps of previous weeks and no info whatsoever on tonight's show (luckily for us, we have access to the Radio Times).
They are also treating their 'new' series really badly, with Property Ladder, Location Location Location and this show falling foul of the 'revisit' syndrome, whereby we get some repeats with an extra minute or so tacked on the end - which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't marketed as being part of a new series and parked slap bang in the middle of new episodes (AND they haven't shown any new-to-terrestrial episodes of The Simpsons in about three years, by our reckoning, which makes us really angry then swiped it from the BBC who at least used to show new episodes once a year). We would be much happier if the end of each of these series would feature a proper revisit epiosde (or even two at a push), with merely a few flashbacks to the original episodes being shown and several decent revisits all in the one show. Now that, Channel 4, would be worth our time and effort.
Anyway, ranting aside, this is apparently a completely new episode of Kitchen Nightmares. In it, Gordon travels to Lampeter to visit an ailing fish restaurant. Apparently sparks will fly when Gordon meets the proprietor's wife: according to the non-mysoginist-or-Welshist-at-all Radio Times preview, we will be treated to 'the appalling shouting and screaming of Caron, Mike's fiery Welsh dragon of a wife'.
However, the bit about tonight's show that really intrigues us is that apparently it is as much about Gordon trying to fix their marriage as it is him trying to fix their restaurants. What with this and Triny and Susannah Undress, marriage counselling appears to be the new telly black. And it does leave us wondering who the next person called upon to do a bit of marriage fixing will be. Seeing as You Are What You Eat has been allegedly cancelled, we wouldn't bet against Gillian McKeith coming back with some sort of 'save your marriage through aduki beans' show.
Forget Relate, people, makeover shows are the cure for all of life's ills.
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