Silver Spring, MD — Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Complete Series Two, the original U.K. series that launched Britain’s most celebrated and colorful chef to international notoriety, debuts on U.S. DVD from Acorn Media on September 1, 2009. The star of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and their U.S. version of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay first brought his vast expertise to TV in this International Emmy®-winning British reality hit seen on BBC America. Kitchen Nightmares U.K. gives Ramsay one week to turn around failing restaurants. He does it with a combination of sound business sense, a perfectly attuned palate, and more than a pinch of profanity. This 3-volume DVD boxed set includes ten episodes: eight restaurant episodes and two Kitchen Nightmares Revisited episodes, in which Ramsay returns to two of these restaurants to see whether his shock treatment worked (DVD 3-Vol., $29.99, www.AcornOnline.com).

There are a million ways to ruin a restaurant, but only one man has the audacity to attempt a rescue in one week: Gordon Ramsay, “the Dr. House of sick restaurants” (NPR Fresh Air). In his storied career, Ramsay has earned 16 Michelin stars, launched culinary successes around the globe, and become a wildly popular TV star. This award-winning series gives him one week to bring foundering restaurants back from the brink of collapse.

Dishing out heaping helpings of truth—liberally peppered with profanity—Ramsay goes eyeball to eyeball with lazy chefs, surly servers, and clueless owners, sharing his unbridled passion for food and hard-won business acumen. And he always returns later to see whether his interventions have worked. Part comedy, part drama, and all reality, these Kitchen Nightmares give a strikingly unglamorous glimpse into the inner workings of restaurants and the people who run them.

After just a few episodes of this award-winning reality series, you’ll never dine out quite the same again. Series Two premiered in the U.S. on BBC America in 2006. From the same producers of Two Fat Ladies, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares U.K. has won an International Emmy® (2006), BAFTAs for best feature (2005 and 2008), and numerous other awards. The series has aired for five seasons in the U.K. on Channel 4. Acorn Media released Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Complete U.K. Series One on DVD in March 2009. Contains strong coarse language

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