Optomen to accompany the following programmes: "The F Word", "Great British Menu", "Kitchen Nightmares", "Two Fat Ladies" and "The Naked Chef". The company has won many awards over the years, including an International Emmy, three BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, three Indie awards and two Glenfiddich awards. On 13 August 2010, it was announced that Optomen had been acquired by All3Media in a £40 million takeover. The agreement saw All3Media take control of Optomen along with its New York-based subsidiary Optomen Productions Inc and One Potato Two Potato, which was established as a joint venture with Gordon Ramsay. Optomen Optomen
Gordon Ramsay in television was in two fly-on-the-kitchen-wall documentaries: "Boiling Point" (1998) and "Beyond Boiling Point" (2000), but had appeared previously as a judge on a MasterChef-like series for young catering students in 1997, with his then restaurant partner. Ramsay appeared on series three of "Faking It" in 2001 helping the prospective chef, a burger flipper named Ed Devlin, learn the trade. This episode won the 2001 BAFTA for "Best Factual TV Moment." In 2004, Ramsay appeared in two British television series. "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" aired on Channel 4, and saw the chef troubleshooting failing restaurants over a one-week period. This series