Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back

This show seems hastily produced and rushed. I understand the 24 hours thing but Kitchen Nightmares and Robert Irvine's 'Restaurant Impossibe' were much better. I hope this gets better because my wife and I love to watch Ramsey on Hell's Kitchen.

Yes Chef!

Ramsay takes on more nightmare restaurants in a tv sensational series as he swears his way through the hours.

He shows. Tenderness while slapping his palm against the back of his hand, simplifying every menu in black T-shirt and whites as he is in the kitchen.

It's the same formula as nightmares and the other shows as he swears his way across an hour, if you have seen one chef Ramsay story, you have seen them all.

It makes you wonder what is the motivation for restaurants wanting to appear on the show? Is it to get a free makeover or to appear on a reality show for some free publicity and a makeover done quickly and cheaply- like a Vegas hotel that will collapse if knocked, the knock test being the gold standard of quality.

Being a huge Gordon Ramsay show of course I watched 24 Hours to Hell and Back. Was it my favourite format for one of his shows? No, it wasn't?

Was it still enjoyable? Of course it was.

The whole show was exhausting just watching it.

I'm not sure if its all that believable. Are you legally allowed to work your staff that long? Isn't it dangerous under those conditions?

Did they sign some kind of waiver to do so?

The mind actually boogles.

I'd be curled up in a corner under a chair after 10 hours regardless of if Gordon was going to come yell and scream at me, actually the idea of that excites me. Lol.

Unlike Kitchen Nightmares, its not a show I would bother rewatching.

It was not horrible, nor was it great, but it seemed more of the same as it was basically, "Kitchen Nightmares" but with the lame twist of having only 24 hours to revamp an eatery. Things seemed rushed, people MUST have been very tired doing this overnight. The set up of the show is that a failing eatery is supposedly being filmed for renovation, but unknown to them, Gordon Ramsay, is really doing his typical Kitchen Nighmare show instead. When they revealed it was actually Gordon, there was not much surprise shown, and the entire show seemed a bit set up and fake in some ways. Maybe the idea is just getting old, or maybe it never was all that real to begin with, but the drama seems way over the top, and everything comes together too well in most of these shows. Not a lot of finesse and just comes off seeming staged a bit.

I've enjoyed Kitchen Nightmares since the earliest British episodes (that was a very different show, GR much calmer and more constructive); and the format tweaks in the new series represent a considerable 'improvement for the worse'. The false jeopardy of doing the shows in 24 hours makes the whole thing seem frantic, and there is no chance to assess what has happened - for either the restaurant or the viewer. Visiting the restaurant in disguise is a stupid gimmick; it's not as though restaurants in previous series had been able to deceive GR about the quality of the food! I'm only thankful he didn't try to do the accent.

I feel as Coke fans probably felt when they changed the formula: something I thought I could rely on has let me down.