Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast 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
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares this show, titled "Kitchen Nightmares", debuted September 19 2007 on Fox. It is broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA". Its run ended on September 12, 2014. In October 2009 Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with "Kitchen Nightmares" and would instead work on his other shows. In June 2014, however, Ramsay announced that the UK version would return for four episodes after a seven-year hiatus. The show has won BAFTA and Emmy awards. A one-off special entitled "Ramsay's Great British Nightmare" aired on Channel 4 on