Isn’t it time for the tricks – I don’t know what else you’d call them – of factual entertainment to be made as transparent in the UK as in the US?

The Guardian’s media diary notes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA:

We would have liked the Granada America show even more had it not been followed by two qualifications in the closing credits telling viewers that events may have happened in a different order to the one that was shown on screen, and that diners may have had their bill paid for by the producers.

The UK version of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (also on Channel 4) often appears to be edited out of sequence, with rows being separated out for dramatic purposes – most glaringly in the past series on an episode featuring restaurant-owner Allan Love in Brighton.

Enterprising media reporters might want to check back editions of the UK version to see if the Ramsay MO – “good honest cooking” – is repeated in the show’s production process…