Kitchen Confidential (TV series)

"Kitchen Confidential", the television series based on Anthony Bourdain's "New York Times" bestselling book, "", is a sitcom which debuted on September 19, 2005 on the Fox network. Bradley Cooper played the Anthony Bourdain-inspired lead character, Jack Bourdain.

History

The show's first two episodes on Fox in the U.S. did not earn strong ratings, and its run was then interrupted by Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. On November 11, Fox announced only 13 episodes would be produced [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/11/television.shows.reut/index.html] . Four days after the fourth episode aired to dismal ratings on December 5, 2005, Fox cancelled the series outright.

Airings outside the U.S.

In June 2006 the show came to Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK, which aired all 13 episodes, and the network has since been airing the show again in repeats. The series has also been aired on Seven Network in Australia around March 2006, but the thirteen episodes were aired out of order due to various Easter specials in April. In December 2006, TV3 in New Zealand started to air the show to mixed reviews but good ratings. Starting in February 2007, the show began to air on The Comedy Channel in Australia.

Episodes

Season 1: 2005

DVD Release

Trivia

The fourth episode "French Fight" guest-starred actor Michael Vartan as a chef with whom Jack and his colleagues start a feud. Vartan and Cooper had previously worked together on Alias, and paid homage to this in a character in joke whereby Bourdain says: "It's like we worked together before or something."

John Cho was originally supposed to be a regular cast member rather than a recurring character.

Oddly, the names of the characters includes two unexplained literary references: Jack's second-in-command is Stephen Dedalus, while his great rival/lover, a woman chef, is Becky Sharp.

Kitchen Confidential was nominated for an IVy award for worst cancellation; the award went to "Arrested Development"cite web | title=The TV IV| work=IVy award nominees and winners of 2006 |publisher=The TV IV| url=http://tviv.org/The_TV_IV:IVy_Awards/2006/Winners| accessmonthday=March 24 | accessyear=2008] .

In the episode "An Affair to Remember" Stephen is seen wearing a jacket with "Hartlepool" printed across the back.

Cast

* Bradley Cooper as Jack Bourdain
* Nicholas Brendon as Seth Richman
* Owain Yeoman as Stephen Daedalus
* John Francis Daley as Jim
* John Cho as Teddy Wong
* Jaime King as Tanya
* Bonnie Somerville as Mimi
* Sam Pancake as Cameron
* Frank Alvarez as Ramon
* Erinn Hayes as Becky Sharp
* Frank Langella as Pino
* Tessie Santiago as Donna

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.hulu.com/kitchen-confidential Online stream of ALL 13 episodes at hulu.com]
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* [http://www.tv.com/kitchen-confidential/show/33728/summary.html Show: Kitchen Confidential]