I'm seriously beginning to worry - this 'last in series' stamp is beginning to really take over the schedules. What are they going to replace all these programmes with in the new year? Back to back reality programmes? Go down the BBC3 route of finding a hole and filling it with Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps?
Among the programmes ending tonight is Spooks (BBC 1, 9pm) which, quite frankly, I'm not fussed about. I've not enjoyed this series at all. The new format - one long series based around one story - hasn't worked.
Expect a big bang end, and a cliff-hanger ready to cue up series six. Not something I'm really looking forward to.
Unlike Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmates (C4, 9pm) which has stuck to the same old formula and works a treat as a result.
What is utterly frightening is the fact that a) so many crap restaurants actually exist to justify a new series and b) the owners of so many crap restaurants actually agree to appear on the programme. Does anything good ever come of it? In the short-term maybe, but long-term, I'm not so sure (there's a great 'Where are they now' series in Gordon's past victims, perhaps that could fill one of the many 'last in series' gaps in January).
Anyway, to the The Granary in Hampshire, a 200-seat upmarket restaurant which is failing to impress the locals.
This is the venue for Gordon Ramsay's final round of constructive criticism in this series. Nigel Nieddu opened the restaurant four years ago but, despite a substantial refit, the enterprise is still losing money and Gordon must come up with some radical improvements to reduce the chaos, as well as instilling some discipline into the kitchen staff.
There's nothing better than watching Gordon in someone else's last chance saloon. As doesn't the gobby chef know it.
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