Gordon Ramsay's TV Deal

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Jun 8th 2006 @ 12:42PM

Celeb British Chef Gordon Ramsay has signed a mega deal worth at least £5m to stay with Channel 4 for another four years, thwarting attempts by ITV to lure him away. This deal will see the star stay on the channel until at least July 2011 and will make him one of the best paid celebs on TV.

The 39-year-old Scot will film a number of new shows for Channel 4 in addition to more series of existing favourites Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word. Hell's Kitchen could also be rerun. A fourth series of Kitchen Nightmares is currently in production, but Ramsay will also develop new programmes with the 'queen of food programming', Pat Llewellyn of Optomen Television, who discovered Jamie Oliver in The Naked Chef and produced the Two Fat Ladies.

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6-08-2006 @2:54PM Brian said... I really wish someone could explain the allure to me. I'm already a bit slighted against reality tv, but I live in a major city, if I want to see people fly off the handle at other people for no reason at all, I can go downtown and watch homeless people, or rush hour traffic.

Where was I when someone was handing out contracts to get paid all that money to go apesh*t on television on a regular basis?
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6-09-2006 @5:50AM Chris said... Brian, it's because, like him or not, he's the finest British chef we have, kooks making snail porridge aside...

I've know quite a few people who have worked for Ransey in various guises and they'd all throw themselves under a bus for him, even though some of them got fired! You see the fireworks, but the coaching, encouragement and training doesn't make good TV, and so it doesn't make it onto the show. Chefs also come out of his kitchen far, far better than they went in. I guess it's a question of what do you want from youw TV chefs, Ainsley Harriet with "Percy Pepper", or Gordon Ramsey doing his thing. I love kitchen nightmares, in the ones I have seen you really see his coaching and nurturing side. The Glass House episode of the first series was an excellent example of just what he can do. All in all, it's fantastic TV. I'll be watching it for sure, but maybe I'm just a sadist...
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