Reality Check: Fox details 'Hell's Kitchen,' 'Crime Scene Kitchen' fall schedules
Fox has announced specifics for its two reality TV shows premiering Sept. 26.
Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen” season 23, at 8 p.m., will feature head chefs only — ranging from those at mom-and-pop shops to those at big establishments commanding sous chefs and line cooks. This will be the first season to shoot at Ramsay’s restaurant at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Immediately following at 9 p.m., “Crime Scene Kitchen” returns for season 3, again hosted by comic Joel McHale and featuring chef Curtis Stone and baker Yolanda Gampp as judges. This season, six pairs of family members and six pairs of friends compete against each other as the duos decipher clues as to which dish was prepared in their kitchen, and then try to recreate it.
A new, not exactly 'dating' show
Netflix has greenlighted the new series “Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark," which the streaming service describes as a “dating experiment show” that “tests a very real phenomenon (a regular late night casual hook up),” and asks, “Is your sneaky link ‘the one’ or are they getting in the way of you finding the one?” Chloe Veitch (“Too Hot To Handle”) hosts, with Spicy Mari, founder of the relationship consulting firm The Spicy Life, as a dating and relationship expert. Ten 40-minute episodes are set to premiere next year.
Finale
The departures of Liz Aust and Nicholas Ducos on “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars” leave a final five to continue on through the season 2 semifinal and final, airing back-to-back from 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Premieres
Early Tuesday on the streamer Hulu, actor and model Kate Upton hosts the new fashion competition “Dress My Tour,” in which 11 aspiring designers create pieces for music stars and chase a $100,000 prize. Costume designer Marina Toybina and director Laurieann Gibson serve as mentors/judges … Then at 8 p.m., MTV’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” is back for a 12th season of highlighting young rappers, with Lil Zane and his wife Ashley joining the cast of more than 20 performers and loved ones … Immediately following from 9:01 to 10:48 p.m., “The Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets” gathers the celebrities Ally Brooke, Josie Canseco, O.T. Genasis, Macy Gray, Chet Hanks, Tyler Posey, Johnny Weir and Kim Zolciak in a Medellin, Colombia, estate and gives them “missions” that “push their limits” so they “divulge their deepest truths” or some such … Early Wednesday on Netflix, comedian Chris Redd hosts as auto experts take beloved old heaps and turn them into “Resurrected Rides” … Then at 10 p.m. Freeform’s new “Wayne Brady: The Family Remix” spotlights the talented multihyphenate and his eccentrically blended family … Early Friday on a new Hulu series, executive producer Megan Thee Stallion takes us to “Playground,” the Los Angeles studio where she and other music stars find top-tier professional dancers looking for their big break … and Friday night from 8 to 9:30, season 5 of WE’s post-prison romance series “Love After Lockup” follows seven couples, including two fan favorites, as they pursue love outside incarceration.
Recaps
Huntington-born Brian Autz, who was raised in Northport and East Northport and now lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, was one of three men Jenn Tran cut from “The Bachelorette,” along with Jahaan Ansari and Marvin Goodly … and on “America’s Got Talent,” Sofía Vergara gave her second Golden Buzzer to the Japanese comedy duo Schumacher.