\"Kitchen Nightmares\" Picked Up for Second Season

Chef Gordon Ramsay gets a high-five from a New York restaurant owner, Sopranos style. (Courtesy Fox)

"Hell's Kitchen" is over, but Gordon Ramsay is back in a new TV show. Well, not new – "Americanized." The British version of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares sees the fuming chef spending a week at failing restaurants telling owners and chefs in "Gordon Ramsay" fashion (see: brutal) exactly why their restaurants are going under, and then working with them to fix it. Now, take the same ingredients and apply them to Americans. Rather than being met with the polite passivity of the English, Ramsay now finds himself on American soil and his harsh criticisms are countered with aggression, attitude, drama and, yes, even mobsters.

What Ramsay offers these restaurants are a lot of publicity, renovations and kitchen equipment, menu revisions and advice on running the kitchen. What people who sign up to appear on the show might forget is… Gordon Ramsay will insult and humiliate them until they want to crawl away on all fours.

The consensus? The Americans love that shit! More please. Thus, Fox has ordered another helping of "Kitchen Nightmares" and greenlights the show for a second season.

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