First off...Gordon Ramsey is an absolute boss. He's like the Bruce Lee of cooking. The show can be so hilarious at times. Gordon always manages to produce these epic comebacks during heated arguments.
shareI much preferred the Uk version of this show. It didn't seem as staged, and the owners didn't seem like such jerks.
shareI've watched the UK version and it's, well, a UK version in that its people are very much British as opposed to their American counterparts. Jerks as you say is kind of how Americans come across in general LOL
shareI think it's just different producers editing in a different way. Most likely for the desires of audiences. But like in the UK version, Ramsay didn't always spit out the food he was trying, and from what I remember there were rarely health violations. The American version seemed so scripted as to what was going to happen with each episode, and Ramsey himself was much more of an ass.
shareHave you watched British Reality Television lately? The UK version was better simply because Reality Television was still in its infancy in 2004 ("The Simple Life" with Paris and Nicole had just premiered a few months before Kitchen Nightmares OG version did) and hadn't become the sort of standardized, commodified, degeneracy which it eventually evolved in to. By the time the American version of Kitchen Nightmares came out there were "Reality TV Directors" with years of experience and marketers had figured out which b.s. plotlines garnered the most clicks and highest ratings. And the British Film and TV Industry takes every wretched "innovation" introduced by America and amplifies it x100. British TV is far more "woke", far more vulgar, and far more sexualized, and far more degenerate in every way than even American TV. And American TV is horrific enough!
So no, it is not a UK vs USA thing. Is one series which was filmed and aired between 2004-2007 and another that ran between 2007-2014.
oh huh. had no idea. that's a hell of an observation.
I thought it was a UK vs USA thing cause the comparisons I already know seemed to correlate with that. (The Office, Shark Tank/Dragon's Den). It just seemed like US programs were just zanier.
Reality TV programming goes as far back as the 1950s. Paris and Nicole didn't Pioneer a fucking thing. That's like saying Kim Kardassian innovated the leaked Sex Tape genre 🤮
shareKim Kardashian was the first celebrity to produce and market a sex tape. Previous sex tapes had been leaks. So you aren't even right about that. As far as Reality TV goes, The Simple Life is what popularized the genre. Reality TV shows had been made before (MTV's Real World, for exampe) but The Simple Life proved it could work on network TV and after The Simple Life's success Reality TV began to completely take over television so that by the time the US version of Gordon's show started up there was template set up that all the shows of that type follow.
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