Welcome to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 2 recap!

With Chef Gordon Ramsay at the TV shows helm for yet another season, you can bet every episode will be packed with hissy fits, injuries, a screaming British chef and a bunch of whining and crying contestants (yes Aaron, I mean you).

Last weeks season premiere made for a great start to what is gauranteed to be a fantastic season of reality television. There’s just one problem, the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner has already been revealed! Keep in mind nothing is 100% until the shows season finale airs (even though it has already been taped), but if you don’t want to risk possibly spoiling an awesome TV show, don’t click that link.

Now, enough of the chit-chat, on to the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 2 recap, and this time around, I’m going to try a different format to try and tighten things up a bit. Enjoy!

• The show kicks off as both the red and blue teams return to their rooms after Tiffany’s elimination in episode 1.
• Aaron’s pacing around. He’s tired, he hasn’t eaten all day but he’s not hungry. Man do I not like this guy. The very site of him annoys me.
• Both teams are rudely awakened at 5:56am by Chef Gordon Ramsay’s sous chef’s Mary-Ann and Scott slamming pots and pans together. You know what that means? It’s challenge time baby!
• Both teams slowly filter out of their rooms and are greeted in the dining room by Chef Ramsay. Ramsay gives them a hard time for all the food they wasted and tells them they’re going to be catching their own fish, but now how you might think. Ramsay leads the teams outside to a trailer that opens as guys start throwing fish out to the contestants. Eddie steps up and works hard as Aaron whines and cries even more.
• Ramsay brings both teams into the kitchen, Aaron starts to whine and cry and Ramsay tells him to go back and take a few minutes. What a tool!

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According to the reality TV blog Reality Blurred, an online gambling company may be responsible for leaking the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner, and after only one episode has made it to air.

As we all know, Hell’s Kitchen is one of the many reality television shows that is NOT filmed live, in fact production on season 3 of the show wrapped up sometime in February. Reality TV shows employ hundreds of staff and most, if not every all of them, already know the identity of the show’s winner before it ever makes it to air. This is just one of many risks television networks like Fox have to accept in order to produce a show of Hell’s Kitchen 3 quality.

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According to Reality Blurred, the online gambling company noticed irregular betting patterns involving a specific contestant before the airing of Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 1. The company originally opened odds on the show with Rock as a 7/1 favorite, by the time the odds had closed for the airing of episode one they had received enough action to drop Rock’s odds as low as 2/1. According to reports, upon further investigation the company found a number of links between employee’s of the Fox TV network itself and a number of betting accounts responsible for driving Rock’s odds down.

It looks to me like someone that worked on the show for Fox decided to try and make a few extra bucks by betting on the Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner before anyone else. Not a bad idea, when you think about it. That is, of course, until you get caught. Obviously the person(s) behind the leak don’t much care for their job, either that or the risk of getting canned was out weighed by the prospect of winning a lowly $350.

In case you haven’t figured it out by what I have written above, I will come right out and say it. The Hell’s Kitchen 3 Winner is Rock! Not that this will keep me from watching the show. Even with the winner revealed, you still never know what’s going to happen through out the season and there is always a chance that the leak is incorrect. It does sound fairly accurate, but you never know.

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Welcome to the On The Lot Episode 5 recap. Tonight’s episode is the first in the series since Fox television trimmed the shows schedule down to a single 1-hour episode every Tuesday night. So, with that being said, hear’s hoping Fox has found a way to breathe life into what has quickly become a dieing series.

Now let’s get down to business and see what happened in episode 5 of Fox’s On The Lot.

SE01EP05 - June 5, 2007

Episode 5 of On The Lot kicks off with a brief recap of episode four where Phil, Claudia and Carolina got the axe and were cut from the show.

Tonight, only five directors get to show their movies, while the remaining ten kick back in the audience and watch. The judges, Carrie Fisher and Garry Marshall, are joined tonight by Transformers the movie director Michael Bay as guest judge.

Tonight’s five featured directors and films are:

Broken Pipe Dreams by Sam Friedlander

Description: A guy loses his wedding ring down the toilet and has to retreive it, despite having a previous bad experience with toilets. Apparently his fish was flushed down the toilet in the past.
My Thoughts: Dumb idea, poor execution, but a clever and funny ending.
Judges Thoughts: Carrie really liked it, a lot. Guest director Michael Bay of Transformers the movie cared more about the fish than the guy, thought it was too long and repetative. Garry thought he made a toilet a character, excellent film making.

Teri by Trever James

Description: A short film about a guys blind date experience with a girl named Teri.
My Thoughts: Stupid and pointless, only mildly funny.
Judges Thoughts: Carrie thought it was cute, though the acting was over done. Michael Bay thought he’s confident in his directing, but he needs to work on his photography and style. Garry said he liked his comedy short film about golf more than this short.

The First Time I Met The Finkelsteins by Hilary Weisman Graham

Description: A son introduces his new girlfriend to his jewish parents.
My Thoughts: A funny idea, but incredibly poorly executed and terribly filmed.
Judges Thoughts: Carrie likes her writing, doesn’t like her directing. Michael calls it a groaner, says it was uncomfortable and just didn’t work for him. Garry says the filming was way to tight, the writing was good, but she has a lot to learn.

Dough: The Musical by Adam Stein

Description: A romantic comedy about two people who are destin to meet.
My Thoughts: Um, interesting. Some shaky filming, but an interesting idea, definitely original.
Judges Thoughts: Carrie calls it incredibly original and entertaining. Michael says it was a very good job for 5-days work, but he could use a bit more work in the photography department. Garry thought it worked out very well but he needed to work on the chemistry between his actors a bit more.

Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey by Shalini Kantayya

Description: The story of a gay south asian comedian finding and accepting himself for who he is.
My Thoughts: A great idea for a short film that was written, directed and filmed fantastically. The message and story was positive and inspiring and, without a doubt, this was my favorite film of the night.
Judges Thoughts: Carrie thought it was very well made, but the advice was crappy. Michael Bay got a chill, said she did a really, really great job and she has the most digital style of anyoneon stage. Garry doesn’t say much of anything, other than not all films need to be linear. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

Judges picks:
Carrie Fisher - Broken Dreams by Sam Friedlander
Michael Bay - Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey by Shalini Kantayya
Garry Marshall - Dough: The Musical by Adam Stein

Other Contestants Pick:
Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey by Shalini Kantayya

My pick:
Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey by Shalini Kantayya

Of all the night’s short films I thought Shalini’s was the only one that was not only filmed very well, but also written and directed very well. The story was both touching and inspiring, the method in which it was conveyed was fantastic and the entire film came together very well.

Overall, the show wasn’t fantastic. It wasn’t as bad as episode 4 was, not by a long stretch, but it wasn’t fantastic either, though I definitely like format a great deal better then the American Idol style they were following before. Who knows, maybe Fox has managed to find a way to prevent this, what could be a fantastic television show, from imminent doom - here’s hoping!

Join me again on Tuesday, June 12th for On The Lot episode 6 when we will find out which of tonight’s five contestants will be sent packing and which five will be next on the chopping block!

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I don’t recall ever before having watched and loved the first two episodes of a reality TV show as much as I did with On The Lot, and on the same token, I don’t think I’ve ever lost interest in a reality TV show so quickly. It almost hurts me to say it because the first two episodes of the show were fantastic and the show has such promise and potential to be absolutely fantastic.

After watching episode 3 of On The Lot, I still enjoyed the show, but had the feeling it was heading the way of an American Idol show and that had me worried. Being away all last week due to a family emergency, I didn’t get to watch episode 4 until I returned home yesterday and, sure enough, my fears were affirmed. They turned the show into a damn American Idol knock-off! The elimination show was far too long, incredibly bloated and simply dragged out beyond belief. It pains me to say I am disappointed in the television show almost as much as it pained me to watch episode 3. American Idol has had huge success with its format and, because of that success, no other show should or can use the same format and ever hope to have the same success, it just isn’t going to happen.

Luckily the people at Fox television are quick to react when they notice things are going down the drain. Fox has acknowledged the ratings flop that On The Lot has become and is fighting to breathe life back into the TV show.

Fox has retooled the entire season’s schedule and the show will no longer have a 2-hour screening episode on Monday night and a 1-hour elimination show on Tuesday night. Instead, both episodes will be crammed into a single 1-hour episode that will air Tuesdays at 8/7c.

Hopefully cutting the show back to a single 1-hour episode every week will breathe much needed life back into the series and save it from what could be a very early demise. I do love the idea behind the show and I truly believe it could be fantastic if the producers can tear themselves away from the terrible American Idol format. Condensing the television series into a single 1-hour episode every week will force the producers to scale things back drastically and cut out a ton of the bloated content that is dragging it under. I have high hopes and believe me, my fingers are crossed.

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D-Day! That’s right folks, the long awaited day is once again upon us. Tonight marked the season premiere of Fox televisions hit reality TV series, Hell’s Kitchen 3!

The television shows third season is gauranteed to be fantastic and I can’t wait to see what it has in store. As usual, British badass Chef Gordon Ramsay has returned to throw 12 would-be super chefs into the fire and, up for grabs this time around, is the head chef position of the new Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Las Vegas! So, without further adieu, I present to you, the Hell’s Kitchen 3 episode 1 recap. Enjoy!

SE03EP01 - June 4, 2007

The show starts off with a quick fireside chat by Chef Gordon Ramsay as he tells everyone how he won’t scream or swear in this season. Ha! Good thing he was kidding. There’s also a quick update on Hell’s Kitchen season 1 winner Michael, executive chef of TaToU in Los Angeles and season 2 winner Heather, head chef of Terra Rossa in Las Vegas.

Welcome to Hell!

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