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• Television Without Pity’s weecap
• FOX.com’s recap

Again, like I did last night’s “Big Brother” episode, I’ll be kinda sorta “liveblogging” this. I’ll be writing down what I think as I’m watching it, but I won’t publish this until the morning. So excuse me if the narrative seems a little disjointed.

Anyhow, so we’re back in the finale pretty much where we left off last week. And let me just say that if Rock doesn’t win then this show is a rigged crock of shit because seriously? Bonnie is a NANNY, ya’ll. Just sayin’. We cut in on each contestant talking up their teams. And it seems like everyone (including Julia) is on board to work together, which is nice. Apparently, Bonnie’s menu is a little… different. But what’d you expect from a NANNY? Rock has great command of his team and (so far) they seem to really respect him. Whereas Bonnie seems to be patronizing Julia earning her a few snide comments and dirty looks. She seems like quite the pill to work with, to be honest. Not that Rock is a cup of tea, but whatever.

And can I just say THANK GOD Melissa has her hair tied back? Otherwise, that was going to be distracting as hell.

Just have to say, Bonnie’s truffles? Seriously? That’s not a desert, that’s a snack. Though Rock’s milk and cookies was little better. Meh. I do like Bonnie’s restaurant decoration. Soft and elegant. The reds and browns looks very nice. Rock’s is a little more modern looking, but still warm but maybe a touch less striking than Bonnie’s. I hate to give her the edge in anything though.

It is interesting to see them run the kitchens, however. Everyone seems to be working very hard. And I can see where it’d be hard to take Bonnie seriously because, dude, it’s Bonnie. Josh and Rock are butting heads a bit. I can see where Rock needs to push him though and where Josh needs to shut up and do what he’s told. That’s got to be rough. And Bonnie’s passive aggressive “not listening” thing just reeks. If she even had a chance, she just lost it there. And it just got worse from there. On both sides, admittedly. Josh was a huge detriment to Rock, unfortunately. Eventually Rock just had to lower the boom on the guy. So he switched him. Simple fix, right? Naw. Rock was getting PISSED. And rightfully so because he was falling behind. But it ultimately worked out when Vinnie stepped up. WHEW.

And, shock of all shocks, some of Bonnie’s customers were unhappy with their dishes. Cold, undercooked, etc and so forth. Yeah, that can’t be good. Getting dishes sent back is a big ol’ no no, apparently. And then Julia giving her the attitude. Which, you know, was funny. Inappropriate, but funny. Rock seems to understand the permanence of this service and is willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Meanwhile, Bonnie is falling apart. Both teams pretty much just squeaked over the finish line. But I do feel Rock came out on top.

Ramsay talked up both contestants and had some really nice things to say about both of them. And they both did work really hard and they both did do a really good job. I was actually pretty impressed with how Bonnie stepped up to the plate here at the end of the season because I wouldn’t have expected it of her. (At this point I have to pee pretty bad so I’m just hoping it finishes up and soon.) But I still don’t think she deserves it more than Rock.

And now we’re down to it. They’re standing in front of their doors and the winner is… (commercial!!! damn you, FOX) ROCK!!! Okay, that’s just sweet. And the poor guy is practically sobbing. He deserved it, plain and simple. It was about consistency. He was consistently the better chef on this show. So congratulations, Rock! You did it!

First off, I’m sorry I wasn’t around yesterday.  We were out of town visiting my parents over the weekend and I expected we would bring our wireless router with us.  We did not.  Without it, it was impossible to access the internet from our laptops and trying to use my parents’ computer is akin to banging my head on the desk.  So while I did watch “Big Brother” on Sunday night, I was unable to chime in yesterday with my thoughts on the “goings on” (in a word: pleased, but ultimately worried for Eric).  So I apologize and I hope you were able to find sufficient “Big Brother” goodness on the usual recap sites.

Now, on to “Hell’s Kitchen”.  We got home just shy of 11pm last night, and while I’d forgotten to DVR the show, I knew the satellite had “auto tuned” to FOX so I was able to “rewind” two hours to watch the show.  Didn’t want to miss the finale, after all!  So imagine my surprise when virtually NOTHING happened the ENTIRE episode.  First off, we had virtually 15 minutes of unnecessary recappage.  I think it was actually closer to 8 minutes but it felt like 15.  If you aren’t familiar with the show by now, then you’ve got problems.  And this episode was hardly going to be the one episode that had you riveted to the screen.

So Rock and Bonnie were off to the Green Valley Resort where there was lots of shtick about their potential restaurant and then they had a final challenge where they had to prepare their signature dishes for a group of judges that included both past winners of the show and Robin Leech.  And, Bonnie won.  Inexplicably, you might think.  I think what they’re trying to do is psyche us up because I don’t see any way that Rock CAN’T win this thing.  They threw Bonnie a bone with the challenge, that is all.  Don’t get too comfortable, Bonnie!

The pair return to LA and check on the progress of their “restaurants”.  If you’re familiar with the show, the final two get to decorate the “Hell’s Kitchen” restaurant however they’d like, with a divider running down the middle of the room to indicate the two separate restaurants.  All seems to be well.  Then they bring in the former contestants.  They’re all pretty happy to be there and be reunited.  However, Julia finds herself rather emotional.  Which I can totally understand because she completely rocks and she definitely saw herself in the final two.  But Rock and Bonnie freaked at her breakdown and when it came time to chose teams, Bonnie selected her last which had to do wonders for her ego.  She was worried that Julia might hinder them with her emotional state.  Whatever.

And that was pretty much it.  Yeah, what a disappointment.  Tune in next week for the REAL finale.

Wow, the show is really getting down to the end, isn’t it?  It was alarming to see that there were three left where there had been five the week before.  And the contestants are reeling from the loss of Julia.  She was seen as an inspiration to the other competitors and even Rock gets a little tearful after her departure.  Everyone was sad to see her go, even Gordon.  Heck, he even offered to put her through culinary school.  That’s got to mean something, right?

The first challenge is making a gourmet meal out of an American classic meal.  Jen selected fried chicken, Rock selected spaghetti and meatballs and Bonnie selected franks and beans.  Bonnie tried to dispute the American classic-ness of franks and beans but it’s pretty hard to say hot dogs aren’t American.  They all made really fancy looking dishes from their assignments though.  The judges?  Their mothers!  Plus we got to see Gordon’s mother and it was rather cute that he wouldn’t swear in front of her.  Or let anyone else do it either.  Anyhow, the mothers tasted the dishes without knowing who had made what and they all unanimously agreed on Jen’s chicken.  Her reward was getting to go to lunch with her mom and Gordon and his mom and then getting a $1000 shopping spree at a cooking supply store.  Not too shabby!

Dinner service was going to be an opportunity for each contestant to show their aggression at working “the pass”.  In preparation, Gordon gave each of them some training on how to be obnoxiously rude to their staff.  Which was HILARIOUS.  Bonnie, if you can believe it, was a complete natural.  I mean, she darn near bit Gordon’s head off.  Pretty funny.  Rock was surprisingly lackluster and needed further coaching.  Jen tried a little too hard, swearing every other word but eventually got a good command.  It was just funny watching Gordon play meek for a change and say things like “Yes, chef.” and “Sorry, chef”.  Ha!

So the plan was to sabotage each of the contestants as they worked the pass and Jen was up first.  And, as expected, she didn’t catch that a pasta dish was missing it’s crab and was ready to send it out before Gordon stopped it.  After that, she was vigilant and did pretty darn well.  But now the other contestants knew to look for sabotage and both Rock and Bonnie caught theirs.  Which I didn’t think was entirely fair because they had to learn from Jen’s example and Jen was going into it cold.  But, whatever.  Dinner service went well and Gordon had a touch choice on his hands.

It came down to Bonnie or Jen.  And I thought for sure Bonnie would be going home.  But instead it was Jen.  I think if you took that episode as a measure, then yes, Jen made sense.  But considering the entire competition so far, I thought Bonnie should go.  I felt a better final two would be Rock and Bonnie.  But at least now we know that Rock will win.  Right?  We know that, don’t we?  Because I don’t think a nanny should win “Hell’s Kitchen”.

Last night was an intense episode.  Things are definitely ramping up towards the end of the season and the competition is getting fierce.  Definitely check out these awesome recaps:

• Television without Pity’s recaplet
• The Fox.com official recap

The “reward challenge” (for lack of a better term to describe it) involved the competitors (who have now merged into one team at last) preparing lunch for a bunch of high schoolers.  Then, in grand “Hell’s Kitchen” tradition, the teenagers vote on who made the best food and that person wins.  And that person is?  Julia!  She reveled in her victory and a chance to go spend the night at the Green Valley Resort.  And she got to take a friend!  That friend was Jen and they both had a great time exclaiming over the bidet.  They also got to meet Heather, the winner of last year’s “Hell’s Kitchen”. She gave them some corney, pre-packaged advice and they waxed poetic over her vast knowledge of competing on a Fox reality show.  Whatever, I still think the other gal should have won.

They come back just in time for dinner service and while they’re doing pretty good, there are some notable exceptions.  Julia just can’t seem to get the garnish station down.  She loses things and generally looks pretty clueless for most of the service.  Which is a shame because we know she can do better.  Josh just plain fucks things up royally the entire time.  He’s on the appetizer station and he just cannot seem to get it together.  Gordon reaches the end of his rapidly fraying rope and just busts Josh out of there.  Get out, take off your coat, leave it here and go get a clue.  It was pretty dramatic.  So Josh is gone, leaving just the four of them.  And you think that’d make them pull together but Rock’s temper keeps getting the better of him and he seems to actually want to perpetuate this unhappy atmosphere in the kitchen.

So after the service, I was surprised to see Gordon still wanted to get rid of someone, seeing as how we already lost Josh.  But he did.  He picked Bonnie to select the two to put up before him and she (wisely) chose Julia and Rock.  I was very disappointed to see Julia go because I know she’s an exceptional cook.  But I think it was the best choice Gordon could have made.  So now Julia is gone and it’s down to three.  Dun dun DUN!!!

I didn’t see last night’s episode because we were watching a DVD.  I had plans of watching it after the movie was over but it was rather late by then and I was pretty bushed.  I correctly assumed it’d be something of a throwaway episode and decided to skip it.  But I’m not the sort to just leave you all in the lurch, I’m making sure you have access to a decent wrap-up of the evening.  And believe me, you can’t go wrong with Television without Pity’s fabulous recaplet of last night’s show.  So check it out, I think you’ll find yourself a little surprised by the ending if you (like me) missed last night’s episode.  And apparently next week Rock cries so I definitely won’t be missing that one!

Some of you may be surprised to learn that we actually saw some cooking on the show last night.  A lot of people have been complaining that we see too much drama and not enough chef-ery on the show and it felt like last night’s episode was an answer to that.  Shoot, Ramsay was downright PLEASED with these people half the time.  I know, I had to check the channel a couple times, just to make sure that this was indeed the right show.

We pick up, as always, right where we left off.  The girls call a meeting and Bonnie coldly says, “Not you, bitch” to Melissa.  And you know what?  She deserved that.   They all vow to be best friends forever or something silly like that.  Oh, and the cat comes out of the bag when all the contestants hang out and chat.  Jen isn’t JUST a pastry chef, she’s been flying under the radar so that people won’t expect much of her. It’s a pretty good strategy and Rock is impressed with her “gamesmanship”.

Our challenge today involves the preparation of lobster.  It sounds pretty challenging.   Ramsay wants each team to make three different lobster dishes (from fresh, unbanded lobsters, no less) and he wants to be impressed.  Bonnie looks ill.  She hates killing lobsters (I’m with her there) and tries to get out of it, but no.  But I will admit I looked away when she tossed her “big f’er” in the pot of boiling water.  The competition is actually really close.  Gordon actually likes most of the dishes they prepared and has a hard time selecting the winner.  He eventually settles on the Red Team and they are awarded a photo shoot at In Touch Magazine.  The Blue Team has to sort the recycling.  Rock is PISSED.  I mean, he’s really, really mad.  The rest of his team looks a little scared and I think I would too.

Then, to rub salt in his wounds, he is called to the photo shoot mid-recycle.  For what?  Why, to take the garbage from the photo shoot and recycle that too.  That was WAY harsh.  But maybe it’ll teach him to shut his yap the next time he gets pissed off.  You KNOW that’s why they made him do it.  This show is so cruel.

During dinner service, we actually get to watch these people cook.  And we see the Red Team really shine (that is, until Bonnie nearly burnt down the kitchen).  The Blue team stumbles a touch, mostly due to Melissa being WAY off her game.  To me, it seems like she’s just given up.  It seems that way to pretty much everyone else too.  So it was no surprise when Gordon calls her out at the elimination first thing and just sends her packing.  No fanfare, no sermonizing.  Just “see ya, don’t let the door smack you in the ass on the way out”.  Then, it seems like he’s going to boot either Brad or Josh.  But he tells them this is their last chance and sends them off.  Daaang.

The one overall distracting element on last night’s show was Melissa’s hair.  Her hair has always been distracting, don’t get me wrong, but last night it was the worst it’s ever been.  See, in that picture there it appears to be brushed and somewhat controlled.  Somewhat.  Last night, it looked like a rat’s nest.  And about the best she does to control it during service is to pull it back into a sloppy pony tail.  I think she thinks her hair is beautiful or something but all I see when I look at her is hair getting in the food and that freaks me out.  Didn’t help that she had a raging zit on her chin either, but I’m not really holding that against her as we all know those darned things show up completely unwarranted.  But the HAIR.  OMG.

The woman herself was little better as she barked out ineffectual orders and dragged the Red Team down. Because of her, the Red Team lost the reward challenge and missed out on getting pampered at a spa.  Instead, they had to decorate Hell’s Kitchen for a wedding that they would be serving. I felt bad for the bride and groom already.

The night was mostly focused on Melissa and how much she sucks and how much everyone else hates her.  Even the Blue Team was skeptical of her and they don’t have to deal with her like the Red Team does.  At least, not yet.

The dinner service actually went pretty well.  For the first time ever, all the customers (this time wedding guests) were served.  Ramsay was apparently testing out their ability to properly time foods.  The Blue Team excelled during the service while the Red Team stumbled (mostly due to Melissa, of course) and found themselves the “winners” of the evening.  Jen was selected as the “best of the worst” and in turn nominated both Bonnie and Melissa for elimination.  That’s the choice I would have made, not necessarily wanting Bonnie to go home yet but better than to nominate Julia who does not deserve in any way to be on the chopping block.  No, this was all about getting rid of Melissa.

Color me shocked when Gordon snatched Melissa back from the brink of destruction, however.   For whatever reason he decided to give her another chance to prove herself a decent cook (since until this week, she’d been pretty good) and had her switch to the Blue Team.  The boys looked decidedly unhappy to have her join them, but only Rock griped on camera.  The women looked visibly relieved to have her gone from their team and have Bonnie safe.  Melissa?  She’d better thank her lucky stars.

Damnit, I have a whole ‘nother week to look at that damned hair.

Mere words can’t explain how much I love this show.  It’s just that good.  The contestants are still upset about the horrible dinner service they just endured.  Jen is beating herself up about trying to serve garbage spaghetti (new on the menu at your local roadside diner!) and Vinnie is helping her by really rubbing in how stupid it was.  Thanks, Vinnie.  You’re such a nice guy.  Bonnie comforts her friend though and makes the boo boo all better.  The next day, it’s time for the blind taste test!  That’s always fun and this time is no different.  Basically?  The men couldn’t taste their way out of a paper bag.  Rock thought egg yolk was potato, for pete’s sake. And Vinnie thought seared tuna was pancetta.  Riiiight.  So the girls win their third reward.

The reward is a gourmet dinner with Gordon in absolute darkness.  Eh? Still, it’s a lot better than the punishment which was having to eat a variety of nasty, nasty things like tripe and tongue and liver. GAH.  Meanwhile, the girls are flirting in complete darkness and I swear to you, Gordon started it by tossing bits of roll at the girls.  Seriously!  Is this junior high? It was cute, but pretty blatant.  Fun television, no doubt.

And now we’re on to dinner service that night.  And once again, it’s a nightmare.  No one can seem to cook the chicken properly, or the Wellingtons (again).  The girls seem to serve more customers but the customers aren’t pleased with what they get and many dishes are sent back to the kitchen.  Gordon about has a apoplectic fit over the whole thing and decides that neither the Blue or Red teams won the night that they both suck equally.  But, from each team, Jen and Rock sucked less so they get to pick the nominees.  Except apparently they can’t even do that because Gordon is disgusted with their picks of Melissa and Josh.  He instead picks Vinnie and Bonnie.  Bonnie made more sense since she just about fell apart during the service, crying about how she couldn’t handle the pressure.  Vinnie also made sense because he’s a dick and Gordon has had it out for him since day one.  And, yep, he’s the one to go.  There’s not room enough in “Hell’s Kitchen” for both of those egos, buddy, and Gordon’s takes precedence.

Oh, but as it gets worse, it gets so so so much better.  In light of yesterday’s post about the backslide of reality TV, I think I understand now what the problem is.  Why shows like “Big Brother”, “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Deadliest Catch” do well while “Pirate Master” and “On the Lot” flail and founder.  The former are exciting, titillating, and unpredictable.  The former are so true to formula that nothing “new” or “exciting” ever seems to happen.  People tune in to reality TV to see something scandalous.  It’s voyeurism at it’s best.  We want to see someone get their ass chewed up one side and down the other.  So we watch “Hell’s Kitchen”.  We want to see someone look ACTUAL death in the eye and chuckle so we watch “Deadliest Catch”.  We want to see people have sex on television, so we tune into “Big Brother”.  It’s pretty simple, once you look at it.  “Pirate Master” and “On the Lot” give us nothing new and exciting to watch.  So we don’t watch, simple as that.  Reality TV is only about the competition in the strictest sense.  It’s about the DRAMA first and foremost.  Producers like Mark Burnett would be well off to remember that.

Anyhow, back to “Hell’s Kitchen” which rocks so much I can’t hardly stand it. In light of last night’s absolutely horrid dinner service, Gordon has a bunch of military types go in and bugle “Reveille” and wake the contestants up.  They are to serve breakfast for the army and the navy.  Julia gets props from Gordon for taking charge in the kitchen and the guys, well, the guys try hard.  So the women predictably win and the guys are assigned KP duty.  They literally have to peel about a million potatoes.  The women, on the other hand, get a helicopter ride with their pal Gordon.  Aaron, who has been particularly woeful up to this point, full out faints during the potato peeling extravaganza.  He is actually sent to the hospital where the doctor tells him he cannot return to “Hell’s Kitchen” and Gordon calls to give him the bad news and is kinder than I think I’ve ever seen him be.  Anyhow.

We learn that Julia doesn’t know what a creme brulee is and apparently this is an infraction that most of the red team just simply cannot fathom.  Whatever.  Julia rocks, I just wish she’d get some powder for her forehead because the shine off of it makes me nervous.  Dinner service goes about as well as you’d expect.  Which is to say it doesn’t go well at all.  It’s hard to chose which team does worse, but the women get the dubious honor what with the rancid crab that Joanna tries to serve and the spaghetti from the trash that Jen thinks is fit to serve (thank goodness Julia stopped her in time).   Oh, and Bonnie tries to serve raw scallops and sends Gordon into a fit of apoplectic rage.  It was awesome.

So the women are sent off to chose two people to put up before Gordon.  He can barely stand to look at them.  Hee.  So who do they chose?  Joanna is an easy pick.  The other choice should either be Bonnie or Jen but who do they pick?  JULIA.  Why?  Because she doesn’t know what creme brulee is.  No, I’m serious.  Thankfully, Jen knows that’s a bunch of bullshit and when announcing the nominees to Gordon, throws herself on the sword.  She then tells Gordon about the pasta/trash incident and I think as floored as he is that she would dare do something like that, the fact that she saved Julia and then fessed up won some big time points in his book.  Not that there was any way that Julia would be sent home because Gordon likes her.  So who goes?  Joanna.  A big ol’ duh there (remember?  the competition is actually very little of what these shows are about), but deserved.  Let’s hope the women ramp it up next week or the guys are liable to stomp their butts.

Last night was another entertaining romp into “Hell’s Kitchen” and what it’s like to work for the devil.  Oh Gordon Ramsay, I kid because I love.  After the girls’ thrashing last week, it seemed only fair they get a week off the hot seat.  They won a challenge that involved the teams preparing sole for the dinner service.  The women prepared more “acceptable” sole than the men so they won a fishing and lunch reward with Ramsay himself, who kept a healthy distance from them (and their overspilling cleavage).  During the challenge, Aaron started to fall apart (yes AGAIN and in much the same way as he did last week too) and Ramsay surprisingly let him off pretty easily and he went to “compose himself” for the next 30 minutes to FOUR HOURS or so.  Must be nice!   When he returned to his team, he said he wanted to quit.  I thought, “Great!  Let him go!”  But the guys actually talked him into staying.  SERIOUSLY.  And he did.  It didn’t make any sense.

The dinner went about as you’d expect.  Aaron was selected to debone fish for the diners tableside and that was a nightmare.  The man was about as efficient at deboning as he is at sucking it up and not whimpering all the damn time.  He left many bones behind as well as cold fish since it took him forever.  And yet, when the men predictably lose the evening and Rock is chosen as the “best of the worst”, he does NOT select Aaron to go in front of Ramsay.  WHY??  Everyone seemed to be surprised by this, maybe Aaron was the most surprised.  Even Ramsay looked surprised.  So who was chosen?  Josh and teeny Eddie.  And who went home?  Teeny Eddie.  Whatever.  This show so doesn’t make sense half the time.

Next week, one of the contestants may end up killing a diner.  Excellent!

Oh Gordon Ramsay, how I’ve missed you so.  It’s like a dysfunctional relationship.  I know he’s a big ol’ jerk, but I want to believe in his kind side.  And, I love watching him rip these poor people a new one.  I want to see if a new vein will emerge on his forehead while he’s screaming at someone.  I want to see what new and more inventive ways he can make someone cry.  “Hell’s Kitchen” is back, one of the best things about summer TV as far as I’m concerned.  Last night was the premiere and it was your typical premiere.  The chefs are… interesting.  There are a few standouts, such as Vinnie who apparently has a death wish.  He was challenging Gordon left and right and we all know that’s just NOT a good idea.  I can smell a climax coming here, can’t you?  There was also Aaron who is a rather large Asian cowboy sort who is prone to large amounts of emotion as evidenced by his breakdown partway through the show.  Yeah, he won’t last long.

The dinner service was, well, a disaster.  There were people who left because they didn’t get food.  The whole place got shut down when Gordon had his trademarked aneurysm and even more people were turned away.  The Red (girls) Team had difficulty preparing eggs.  The Blue (boys) Team ran out of food before serving any.  It was chaos and immensely fun to watch.  In the end, the Red Team lost (which I totally agreed with because they were NOT getting along and not talking and not working together AT ALL).  And Gordon ultimately sent Tiffany packing.  She was chief “I can’t cook an egg” person so the firing made sense.

All in all, I think Gordon went easy on them last night.  These people were a MESS.  I was amazed that any of them had any cooking experience at all, considering the troubles and mistakes.  The next several weeks look to be VERY enjoyable though and next week promises to be “shocking”.  I certainly hope so.

Good news for Gordon Ramsay fans out there! The season premiere of “Hell’s Kitchen 3″ will air this spring, instead of this summer like it’s two predecessors. According to The Futon Critic, “will take over for the departing ‘The O.C.’â€? FOX obviously is banking on “Hell’s Kitchen’s” appeal with the viewers by airing it on Thursday nights at 9pm, opposite such powerhouses as “Grey’s Anatomy”, “CSI” and “30 Rock”. No word on if the show has been filmed or has yet to begin production, but the casting for the season took place last Fall so at least that’s covered. I, for one, am excited. I really enjoyed watching the last season over the summer and am looking forward to seeing Gordon flay some new victims.

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I didn’t discover “Hell’s Kitchen” until about halfway through the second season. But from the first moment, I was HOOKED. Watching the strangely enigmatic Ramsay berate and humiliate his chefs was high, high entertainment. Now, we get an another chance to watch him rain on someone’s parade; Fox is coming out with a new reality series called “Kitchen Nightmares” which will follow Ramsay around America to help restaurants who are having problems getting their act together.

According to the article at Reality TV World,

Each Kitchen Nightmares episode will see Ramsay visit a different struggling American food establishment. After arriving at the restaurant in crisis, Ramsay will motivate the owners and bully the kitchen’s brigade in an attempt to reverse the fortunes of each struggling restaurant in just one week. Whether he’ll save them from their current nightmare or just create a new one will depend on how the establishment’s lazy cooks and moody wait staff respond.

That there sounds like some good television to me. “Kitchen Nightmares” goes into production in February and I’m assuming will be airing later on this year. Also, season 3 of “Hell’s Kitchen” will air this spring.

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