Gordon Ramsay

Fox plans its post-soccer summer

When soccer ends and the world goes home, Fox will have Part II of its summer line-up.
In mid-July, it will debut one show, start new seasons of two (including Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares,” shown here in a previous episode) and resume three more.
For now, Fox is obsessing on the World Cub, which brings soccer teams to the U.S., Mexico and Canada, from June 11 to July 19. Every game will be on Fox or Fox Sports1, in addition to Telemundo and streaming on Peacock and Fox One.
To clear the way, the network started many of its summer shows early and will finish three of them early. “Farmer Wants a Wife” and “Bear Grylls is Running Wild” end on June 9, “The Floor” on June 10.
But some others will be back. The plan,announced today (Tuesday) includes: Read more…

Cooking shows rise (or sink) to a new level

As cooking shows fill our TV sets, they offer lots of sleek settings.
“The contestants are always working in these fabulous, million-dollar kitchens,” said Matt Cahoon, a creator of the new “Next Level Chef” on Fox. They have “the best equipment in the world, using the highest-end ingredients that money can buy. And that’s not real life.”
Now real life – or three variations of it – arrives. “Next Level Chef” debuts after football (at about 8 p.m. ET) on Jan. 2, then moves to Wednesdays. It instantly shows its extremes.
“We’ve got these three incredible kitchens, three stories high, 85,000 tons of steel,” said Gordon Ramsay, who produces the show with Cahoon and Lisa Edwards. (The structure is shown here, with Richard Blais, Ramsay and Nyesha Arrington.) Read more…