High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kitchen Nightmares is an American reality television series broadcast on the Fox network, in which Chef Gordon Ramsay spends a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. It is based on the British show Ramsay`s Kitchen Nightmares. The show is produced by ITV Studios America and Optomen, in association with A. Smith Co. Productions, with Arthur Smith, Kent Weed and Patricia Llewellyn serving as executive producers.