> I don't know why you'd want to watch Kitchen Nightmares more than once.
> The entertainment wasn't really Ramsey so much as the people running the
> restaurants. The first place was just indescribably awful, Ramsey got food
> poisoning from the sample meal! The kindest thing you can say about the
> owner and the "chef" is that they were both simpletons.
>
> As the show progressed the restaurants actually improved until they got to
> the final place which once been a famous gourmet establishment that
> depended for its success on the passion of the original owners. One of the
> big problems for the new owners, if I remember correctly, was getting
> decent staff to leave London for the provinces. And of course they had to
> get on top of the financials, which Ramsey understands very well.
>
> Ramsey is quite competent as a chef and, I would say, very competent as a
> businessman. He is naturally short tempered and foul mouthed, but I reckon
> he plays to the camera. Rick Stein would never do for a show like this,
> he's too much of a gentleman. (And of course, here we come to the English
> class thing that is the subtext to all their popular entertainment -
> Ramsey's an unashamed oik, which adds to the fun when they let him loose
> on the posh place next to the golf club.) The shows are not what I would
> call food TV, they are reality TV.
>
> Christine

Thanks for all who posted regarding Ramsay's shows. I'd never heard of him.
About the only thing that's on BBC that I would watch similar is Fawlty
Towers. I hope this is amusing. I'm going to be recording tomorrow for
watching later.

I have the Monty Pythons and Absolutely Fabulous DVD sets. I gave away my
Fawlty Towers - pooh on me!
Now that you know what I like, does anyone know of any other classic
nonsense that I might like? - the Silly's that the run on PBS Saturday
nights - or used to?- are not my style. Or know of any other BBC shows on
Dish that you like and would like to recommend?
Thanks,
Dee Dee