Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a critically-acclaimed television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The BAFTA and Emmy Award winning programme debuted on Channel 4 in 2004.
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them.
An American adaptation of this show, titled Kitchen Nightmares, debuted September 19, 2007, on FOX. A German version of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, called , debuted September 11, 2005, on RTL, although featuring a much more toned-down approach.
In addition to finishing filming a fifth series, which started airing on October 30, 2007, Ramsay has announced he plans to extend the show's concept to carrying out a "culinary makeover" for an entire town, to be chosen by Channel 4 viewers.
