Gordon Ramsay's Future Food Stars

I really couldn't be bothered who won and who didn't as nobody in this show was someone you would emotionally invest in-there was no journey to go on and see anyone and transform for the better. Bleh.

In spite of all his success Stateside, it seems like GR is pretty anxious to break back into prime-time British TV - this is his second attempt. I like him for that. The BBC, for its part, is desperate for new formats in that 9pm slot. But it's not so easy to come up with ones that work; hence this strange hybrid of Hell's Kitchen and The Apprentice which in more prosperous times - and if it was fronted by anyone else - would have been introduced gently, at teatime on BBC2.

The problem it has is that viewers have such a clear idea what they want from him and from food-related shows. People ask, what has jumping out of helicopters got to do with food? Well, what has directing terrible TV ads, appearing on shopping channels or buying a glass teapot in Marrakesh got to do with being in business? Nobody blenches when these ludicrous tasks are set on The Apprentice. Essentially the premise here is the same, a dozen hopeless eejits squabbling for our entertainment. But because it's Gordon, we feel it really ought to be about the food and so most of what the contestants do seems pointless.

No-one surpasses him at people management, and you see that when he's giving the contestants their feedback. But that's why his best show is Kitchen Nightmares, the old episodes of which are still being endlessly repeated on E4. That's what I'd like to see him back doing.

Gordan Ramsey thinks he's Alan Sugar! It doesn't work Gordan. I think he should go back to the kitchen as this isn't his best. The show is trying to be a food version of apprentice but it's lacking big time.

I've continued watching this but it's hard going, often pretty dull. The main problem is that it's so derivative from The Apprentice but does everything far worse: lacking the tension. Gordon seems like a nice chap but half the fun of the Apprentice is that Lord Sugar comes across as a fierce mogul whom all the candidates fear.

I could go on but tbh I feel like I can't be bothered. And that's the problem. This is really pretty dull.

Edit. Having just watched the latest episode, this is getting worse. I had to skip through sections as it's becoming unwatchable.

So, Gordon wants to find a future food star. So far, so good. Then it's all downhill from there. So how have they done it, and more importantly, how have they done it so badly?

I suppose it's a cocktail. It's a mixture of GR with his claws buffed away, it's the Apprentice format to generate "point and laugh" failures, but even that is not enough. Dear me no.

So what's the final element........it's a food and drink show, but it needs a twist. You might think that simply being chucked into unfamiliar food and drink arenas would be that final twist.....everyone getting a chance to be a fish out of water. You'd be wrong.

Cue Mr Ramsey attempting to channel his inner Ant Middleton. Let's freak them. Let's subject them to some SAS Who Dares Wins frighteners.

So what does that heady mix of badly thought through concepts give us? A mess, that's what. An unmitigated disaster of a programme not worth one penny more of TV licence money.

Thankfully, stuff like this is likely to kill off much of reality TV, so it's not all bad. Series 2 anyone? Hopefully not. This is drivel of the worst kind.