Monday, 11th January at 9pm on ITV2.

Season 6 begins. It was filmed only a matter of a week or so after Season 5 ended, so Gordon may be grumpier than usual...

Expect lots of drama, a couple of familiar faces returning and although the voice-over says it every week, you will not believe what happens at the end of the second episode. (Though you will have to wait a week for that) :)

Thankyou KA.

I will be watching.

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I wonder why they film one series straight after another.

It is one of the biggest shows on American TV and I think Fox wanted to cash-in by making two series per year. (Another two are already commissioned.) I imagine it would just be more convenient for both Fox and Ramsay to shoot the two series back to back.

Great television.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it, more than most stuff that I have viewed these last few weeks.

Robert's return was a surprise. I found him quite vicious the first time round. However, he deserves a second chance. He is a good chef.

I loved Lovely and her 45 minute 'drink' break. Hahaha. How she survived not being one of the two offered up by the girls' team for the sack, I do not know. I would have liked to have seen a bit more of that discussion, it was far too short. It always is.

The girl who mistakenly put the salmon in the freezer deserved another chance. Yes, it was a really stupid thing for her to do and caused massive inconvenience, but it was a mistake. it can happen. I am pleased that Gordon Ramsey was fair enough to see that.

KA, the man that was kicked out of Hell's kitchen mid-service, do you recall what he did wrong? It all happened so fast that I did not register it.

Just loved it all.

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:unworthy:

Agree it was good to see. The first episode is always a train wreck but this bunch took the collective biscuit. Louis was kicked out because having failed to provide a single piece of acceptable lamb, Gordon went to his station to discover he had wasted what appeared to be about several sheep's worth of food. A bit like Melinda with her pasta.
Melinda was truly hilarious. She looked "zonked" the whole evening.
Lovely was lucky, OK if she felt unwell but just to wander off for such a long time is not really acceptable.

Thanks KA for the reminder.

And now, we have to wait a whole week for the next episode. Shame, I want more now.

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If you really want to Eddy, the whole series is available on YT.
It is of course censored so there are many "bleeps" not only because of Gordon, but the contestants are a mouthy bunch too. (Well a few of them are.) The "provider" (I don't know what you call the people who upload videos) you should look for is called Quickuploader who is the only person that I know to show the entire series. Do not read the comments however as there are "spoilers" everywhere. I promise not to give anything away, but next week is "explosive" (though not literally.) :D

I may give You Tube a go.

Though in the past I haven't enjoyed watching TV on You Tube.

I am really looking forward to this evening.

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:o

That has to be one of the most infuriating endings to any programme that I have ever seen.

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What was wrong with Joseph? He had done quite well and was not in the firing-line, so what was his problem.

I can only assume that perhaps he was not in favour of the 2 chosen by the team and did not want to articulate the reasons given for them being chosen. Or was he embarassed because he did not remember the reasons? Or was it just that GR ridiculed and embarassed him by drawing everyone's attention to his not being able to understand what was required of him?

Whatever it was, threatening violence is unacceptable. Clearly he will not be continuing in Hell's Kitchen which means that the 2 boys' team members nominated for eviction will be spared.

As for the girls' team plus Robert, I am really disappointed that those 2 face the chop. I like them both. Lovely's mistake was a serious one, but she was not alone in under-cooking food. That's quite common in HK.

Loving Robert's superior attitude just before he failed to deliver.

My other favourite funny bit was the 'chicken nugget' incident. Of course he chopped up the chicken in that manner to make up for time, but I can't imagine how he thought that would get past GR.

Another excellent episode.

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It was a bizarre one. Joseph had a bad attitude from day one and even having won the challenge he was very ungracious with the reward.
It was very annoying that they cut it off there but it makes sure you tune in next week. :)
One thing that I didn't like was when Van had his argument with Jean-Phillipe, Gordon should have backed JP more. They have worked together for at least 16 years, he has known Van a few days.
Robert is acting a bit high and mighty for my tastes, yes he did well last time but he cannot just bask in former glory.
More excitement next week with a couple of potentially damaging injuries...

I couldn't help but believe that was scripted and planned by GR and JP.

GR knows he needs to make the show interesting and nothing helps more than some controversy and lots of shouting and conflict.

It is the only explanation as there is no way that JP would have been spoken to and treated like that after years of service.

I can agree that the bust up between JP and Van may have been planned, but I suspect it is the programme makers (ultimately Fox TV) who decide these things. That is why to begin with we get a handful of genuine cooks/chefs plus a bunch of wannabees some of whom have never actually worked in a proper kitchen before. Obviously the novices will not be able to handle the pressure of a "fine-dining" service and Gordon will get frustrated and the Yank audience gets the drama it (apparently) craves. Having said that Britain is little better, Jedward couldn't win a talent contest at Butlin's but reach the final stages of X-Factor?

Just popping in during the commercial break.

I am just shocked at the conclusion of the Joseph incident. Silly boy. Fancy throwing away a chance like that for nothing.

What was really funny was Ramsay's reaction. Challenging Joseph whilst 2 huge bouncers were standing next to him on either side.

:lol:

As I said before, I think Joseph had "issues" from day one.
I find a lot of this batch unlikeable. Van is just too loud, Robert still seems to be living on his previous success. For the women Tennille has a terrible shouty voice that grates and Lovely while being a nice person is just well, not very good. In the kitchen or in the dining room she just ambles along at her own, pretty slow pace. Looking forward to next week because I have forgotten what happens. :)

After all the drama things had to calm down...if only a little. Robert was acting like a total jerk the whole show and after getting a couple of things right in previous episodes, Suzanne is growing big-headed. I think Lovely just had to go. Her third time on the chopping block in four weeks and she just didn't seem to have anything to offer.

I am sorry, though not at all surprised, to see the lovely Lovely go.

I liked her laid back attitude and the fact that she would say that she was at her best and how could she move faster, when she was moving so fast anyway. Then there was her indignation when receiving much merited criticism.

All in all Lovely is a real character, in a show with too many dullards, but the truth is I am at a loss as to why she was selected in the first place. That applies to a few of the others as well. Do they pick a few useless ones so that they can easily get rid of them, leaving the better candidates to shine?

I still like robert but I can see through his theatrics. He has learned a few tricks from GR and is very obviously playing to the cameras to get more TV coverage. He has been on this TV show before and he knows what it takes. After all, his friends and family are watching as are future employers and other TV producers.

Agree about Suzanne's big head. Also annoying is that Texan guy with his annoying never-enjding smile.

I am still absolutely loving this programme.

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That must have been one of the most one-sided dinner services ever.
Although Jim had a tricky start with his steaks he got the back up from Kevin and managed to pull through. Tek had a similar disaster but the women chose the "too many cooks" approach and sadly she wasn't vocal enough to tell them to back off. I am not keen on shouty Tennille but she was right, the women should not have picked her for possible elimination,
although I think no matter who else was up there, Tek was a goner.
I don't think you have to be loud to survive, but you do need confidence and Tek seemed lacking in that department.

Another great episode.

The boys team really humiliated the girls team by doing so much better in that dinner service. An amazing contrast.

Not too sure why the girls are doing so badly. They do not seem at all willing to help each other when a team mate is in difficulty. They seem quite content to stand back and watch a fellow team player's kitchen effort go pear-shaped.

The girls team members are positioning themselves to survive before they have even won or lost the dinner service. They also seem to have a ruling gang which is protecting certain members and picking on others like Tennille.

Last night Tek panicked when GR started to put pressure on her. All she needed was some moral support and a helping hand. At first the others were content to just sneer at her, then they all stepped in whivh just made for further chaos.

I felt sorry for Tek. It was painful watching her performance during that dinner service. Not to sure why she was chosen to take part in all this. she was very weak and was the obvious choice to go.

As for Tennille, she was right to stick-up for herself and protest to GR at her being selected for eviction. GR knew she was right and was being picked upon. GR was right not to accept her nomination.

An excellent programme in one of the best series. I can't wait for the new episode.

Next week's preview looked very exciting.

The exchanges between GR and Tennille looked interesting to say the least. I think they were calling each other crap or something like that.

Where to begin? The women did well in the challenge but cannot seem to pull off a dinner service. I am growing weary of Tennille. First she thinks her own team are picking on her and now it is Ramsay. This is series six woman, you should have noticed by now Ramsay shouts at a lot of people.
Having said that, following her confrontation she did seem to get her head back in the game. The men...what a contrast to last week. Even the normally solid Dave seemed to lose it for a while. I didn't care for their tactic of trying to nominate Robert in his absence but a bit like Tennille he has annoyed his own team with his big mouth. Andy's excuse that he didn't know "the system" seemed pretty lame, I think that is code for I am not normally this busy. I just don't know if Jim deserved to go ahead of Andy, frankly they both looked several levels out of their depth.

Another excellent episode in this ace series.

I liked Tennille earlier in the series and had a lot of time for her last week when she challenged the fact that her team had nominated for possible 'eviction'.

Not so sure now. Basically it was her pride that led her to call GR 'crap'. She misses the point. GR uses expletives all the time. It is the way he expreses himself. Afterwards he forgets about them and bears no grudges. Personally, I would not like it. But if you chose to go into Hells Kitchen you know what to expect.

Jim was the right one to go. Look, he wasn't even bothered about going. He had no passion as GR correctly pointed out. Andy at least wanted to stay. Also I feel that GR felt he was being honest when he said he was put off because he was scared of him.

The boys were lost without Robert. I do think that he has made all the difference to that team.

Irritating at times, often arrogant and sneers too much. Yet I like Robert and was delighted to see him back. Regrettably, I really feel Robert can't cope with actually winning. His health related issues will make it almost impossible for him to run a top restaurant's kitchen.

I wish they would double-up the episodes, one never seems enough. At least the ITV network are broadcasting it at a decent time.

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Figs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What on earth made him think of that? I was dumbfounded and could not imagine, not in a 1000 years, that they would pull it off. Yet they did. Very well done to the boys' team.

Of course the boys' effort was helped by the girls' team and their awful garlic sauce. Tennille was right of course. She often is right. But no matter what she does she is largely ignored by the other girls.

I am not really liking the girls' team right now. Nothing their that I can support with good heart. I actually think Tennille is the nicest.

I have always liked Robert and was pleased when GR gave him another go. I still like him but his conduct towards Andy was a disgrace. It did no favours nd must have left a bad taste in the mouths of many people watching the show.

Robert had to go because of his poor health. He must have known that. GR certainly did and jumped at the chance when it came along. GR was right about Robert's experience of service on Hell's Litchen. His lamb was a disgrace and i think that was down to the fact that he was tired.

Good to see that smug Zac get his nose out of joint. Serving the cooked plastic with the meat was a huge boo boo boo, one that will not be
forgotten. But Zac will stay at least until after Andy is out.

Excellent episode.

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Tonight was just a hoot. :D Quite often when a team wins the challenge, they lose the next dinner service. It is as if being a way from the kitchen they lose focus. Robert had been away a bit longer, he certainly wasn't relaxing and his team 'blanked' him when he came back. I think all that contributed to his awful service but he had no cause to mouth off like that at Andy. Best all round that GR let him go. The chef's table in the men's kitchen was brilliant. Firstly Dave just decides they will have risotto then the mouthy Texan (Van, isn't it?) asks what y'all havin'? "What do you have? the bemused chefs reply. Van trying to explain his fish dishes was classic, "the cod, it ain't that great" and so on. :lol: The men did pull the challenge out of the fire after Dave's inexplicable choice of figs.

The women are an odd bunch. Suzanne likes to be in control, Ariel might be good but can be over confident. I would like Tennille a whole lot more if she would just stop shouting! The other two seem to drift in and out, they need to make a mark soon. Best episode yet. :D

The name is cetainly Van and not Zac as I suggested.

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Don't worry Eddy, I was struggling to remember the names of the two women I had not mentioned. I think it is Sabrina and Amanda but I cannot swear to it. Assuming there will be more series (supposedly two more have been commissioned) I really hope they do the 'chef's table' again. For me, that was the highlight of the show.

I am pretty certain the names are Amanda and Sabrina.

The chefs' table was a great idea. I found it very funny when the boys completely forgot about their chefs' table.

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Eddy, I think you put your last post in Kitchen Nightmares rather than Hell's Kitchen...

I agree it is difficult to like Suzanne, but she is one of the stronger cooks on the women's team. I also agree it is silly of the others simply to gang up and turn against her. You cannot harp on about teamwork and disown one of your own team at the same time. I have a feeling GR spots the weak and strong chefs fairly early on and he knew Suzanne was stronger than Amanda.

The men seem to have a problem with Andy, though I don't think he was so much worse tonight although his mistake with the potatoes running out could have cost them dear. By jumping in and simply making a fresh batch, Dave proved he has his wits about him and he is willing to work for the team, not just stand back and moan.

Boiled coconut.

:P

Another excellent episode. Full of excitement.

Suzanne had it coming. How the mighty fall and all that. She really did set herself with her arrogance and her continual brown nosing of GR.

Sabrina was right, Suzanne did not give her chance to cook the meat so it was ready with the fish. Suzanne claimed that she was merely pushing things along but she is not stupid. It was deliberate.

I felt sorry for Sabrina, especially as she tried to eat the under-cooked lamb. Sabrina's failure was a small one and I am pleased she stayed on. Love her vendetta.

I can understand why the other women do not want Suzanne but I really do not like the conspiracy against her. That is not the way to go. It's the cooking and the dinner service that matter and they very nearly proved their point tonight.

Amanda was the weakest and GR was right to pick her out and let her go.

I loved the smug Tennille. well done to Tennille for turning her game around so well.

As for the boys, I think David (the mash potato saviour) is head shoulders above the rest. In fact, I am beginning to think that he will win. He seems to be a cut above all the others, male and female.

Andy is lucky to still be in there. I really do hope that he is not seriously injured next week.

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I have corrected it.

Moved it above.

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3, quite rightly, kicked out of the kitchen. Great episode.

For a moment I thought that andy may have turned the corner with those crepes of his, but it was not to be.

Andy could not sustain the quality. His hand injury ensured that he continued to fail to deliver. Though i am at a loss to understand how he can blame the ridiculous salad dressing on his accident.

The truth is that Andy is a nice guy and the other lads have been very kind to him for some weeks now. He was criticised but there were bigger players that had to be taken care of.

Andy had to go and GR made the right decision.

Sabrina and Suzanne ... :D . They are not bad chefs and clearly nerves and the time factor got the better of them tonight. However, their plight tonight has given Ariel and Tennille a huge advantage.

Tennille seems to have become the main commentator. I get the feeling that the final may be one between her and David, the mashed potato king, that's if he manages to stay in the competition following the accident seen in the next episode's preview.

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Thank goodness ITV2 has a +1 channel otherwise I would have missed most of that. :) Last week I tried to give Andy the benefit of the doubt but tonight he really did ruin everything he touched. His finger injury is surely no worse than Dave's arm, I wonder if after a while he just mentally gave up. I agree it was right he should go.

It was painful watching Suzanne tonight. After her team laid into her last week she really did over-compensate. Trying to be Miss helpful during the challenge she just came across as annoying. She too seemed to mentally crack. Early on she did seem to be a strong cook. Sabrina I am less sure of. I don't think she has ever truly shone and as the weaker cooks leave and the likes of Tennille improve she just plods along. She is good in the challenges, but on the line in service I am less sure.

Not exactly unlikeable, I find a few of these people annoying.
The red team down to three members vow to work together as a tight-knit unit. Come the challenge Ariel and Tennille then choose to ignore Sabrina.
Then comes the great lamb/venison incident. Ariel and Tennille are convinced it is lamb (despite there being another piece of lamb there!) Sabrina knows it is venison but having been snubbed earlier she chooses to say nothing. This is hardly teamwork and no Suzanne to blame this time. Then as Van splutters away trying to describe his own dish his rival Sabrina bails him out. I just don't get it.
Blue team are better, Suzanne wisely kept her head down, Van is a permanent buffoon but possibly/probably/maybe deserved to stay ahead of Sabrina.

Another thoroughly good episode.

The girls' team just seem to implode. IMO this had a lot to do with the absence of Suzanne, their common enemy.

They came across as three unpleasant young women, particularly Sabrina who was quite clearly willing to do some serious damage to her own team over the 'lamb or venison' incident.

I am pleased that Tennille managed to get herself out of that situation (eventually) because Sabrina was being outrageous. Ok, they should have listened to her earlier but that does not mean that you ruin the task in front of GR. That is just not on.

Ariel is interesting. I think that she is a possible finalist. At least she will make the final three. Not brilliant, but never awful. Consistently average which means she is quite good when her record is compared to the spectacular failures of many of the others.

Van was lucky last night. He failed and failed and failed. He has been lucky to have found himself on the winning side so many times. His kitchen skills dictate that he would have gone long ago. He spectacularly let down the boy's team.

I really think that Van is next on GR's hit list. Talking of hitting, I thought that Van might try and thump GR last night when he was rep
eatedly being told by him to look at his eyes.

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Despite his shortcomings I like Van. Not sure why. I suppose it's because he is not coming across as being particularly malicious or unpleasant.

Pleased to see David carry on last night. He is a little full of himself but he is basically an ok man. I think David has already won this.

This continues to be an excellent series and programme.

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I will half agree and half disagree on this one. :)
I agree Sabrina should have told the others it was venison, but for two aspiring 'head chefs' not to recognise that huge lump of meat was embarrassing. Sabrina was more annoying when they were trying to pick their own menu. She dismissed most of Tennille's ideas but didn't offer much herself.
Van I cannot take to. For my taste he is too much bluster. I just don't like people who are constantly loud. He contradicted himself by saying in the "confessional" that he worked constantly with halibut but he told Gordon that halibut was not really something he cooked too often.

One thing that makes this series really stand out is the amount of uncooked and under-cooked leaving the kitchen during a service. Raw meat as opposed to cooked food that has just gone cold.

I am appalled.

Perhaps this does not matter so much early on in the series, but at this stage of the contest it does.

Ok, give everybody one chance, but more than once and GR should take firm action. Shouting at them is really not enough.

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Excellent, yet again.

Almost felt sorry for GR tonight after his walk out.

I am not surprised Van went. What went wrong for him? Having been told so many times, I would have thought that he would check, and check again, to make sure that blooming fish was cooked. Serving raw food is just not acceptable. Once is more than enough but Van just went on doing it.

I do not think it can be explained as Van's nerves getting the better of him. Sure, he knows how to cook fish. It's just that he cannot cook it under pressure and to such a strict timetable. That is why he embarassingly broke out in a sweat.

A nice guy but he wouyld have gone weeks ago had he not been protected by what was the old boys' team.

Tennille has really turned this around for herself. She must now be considered as a possible winner. I suspect that this goes quite a way to understanding David's animosity as witnessed at the end of tonight's episode and in the preview of next week's programme.

That is not to say that Tennile wasn't wrong in backing down from supporting Ariel and Suzanne for eviction. She made David and Kevin look like fools, particularly the former. But I understand where she is coming from, when it came down to it she just could not be dishonest.

Suzanne has lost it. She would have been out had Van not been so bad. She is now just there to make up numbers. She has no chance of being the winner.

Good to meet Christine again.



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It was a great episode with Tennille really rising to the top.
I did however get really annoyed by all three of the good cooks who saved the day because initially at least they all chose to nominate Ariel ahead of Van. Ariel burned some lettuce by accident and an already frustrated GR lashed out. That threw her a bit but from then on the only thing she did wrong was to fail to keep to the pace that Tennille was dictating. Van was a mess from the very start. In truth Van has been a mess for a few weeks now. He was the obvious choice to go. One question. When Gordon and Scott went outside what happened to the other sous chef Heather? She could have 'plated up' and ran the pass but apparently she was withdrawn too. Perhaps it was some sort of test to see who exactly would take command?

If this show was taking place in Europe, the kitchen would have had to close for health and safety reasons, in the absence of a designated, fully-qualified person.

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For the record, I think GR was staging it for dramatic effect. That is OK as the outcome could not be scripted and it was verey interesting watching the response.

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It was a shame for Dave but kinda funny to watch as he struggled to describe his dish to the magazine editors. Even in the "confessional" he couldn't work out what he had called it. :D Dave and Tennille's feud is really quite petty. For the final five, they made quite a hash of dinner service. Kevin who was not perfect himself is becoming more cocky, it seems any station that he isn't on is "the easiest in the kitchen."
So they have to decide. "Let's take a simple vote" declares Kevin which is fair enough, accept when someone nominates an instant argument breaks out. In the end I think Suzanne going was inevitable, but on that service most of them had a case to answer.