Gastronomes may disagree about the merits of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants, but there can be little doubt that on television, Ramsay reigns supreme. Since 2001 he has won three Baftas for programmes from Faking It, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word. His next series, Ramsay’s Best Restaurant – “the X Factor for restaurants,” he calls it – has all the ingredients of another hit. It takes two national obsessions, talent shows and food, and puts them together under the stewardship of probably the only man on TV with the professional credentials and the on-camera wherewithal to be both kingmaker and king.

Over in America, meanwhile, Ramsay has gone interstellar. He is the front man for their version of MasterChef, which launched last month as the Fox network’s biggest ever summer debut. It follows Hell’s Kitchen on a Tuesday night, also hosted by Ramsay, and in case Americans feel starved of Gordon at other times of the year Fox also screen versions of Kitchen Nightmares and a live Cookalong that goes out during the Super Bowl. Ramsay’s production company, One Potato, Two Potato, makes all of these shows – he has every claim to be the Simon Cowell of cookery.

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