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Step aside X-Factor, as Gordon et al are going to rock the season alight

It's coming up to Christmas and it only means one thing - good telly. The X-Factor is back, proving to be even more popular. Strictly is back with even bigger household names with the likes of Gavin Henson and Ann Widdecombe on course to waltz their way to victory.

But it won't be those type of programmes I would be hooked into watching. Another genre which would increase my appertite by just mentioning... food. This week alone, Gordon Ramsay has two shows in completely different programmes. Yesterday (September 13th) saw him on ITV2 with "Hell's Kitchen USA" and now tonight on Channel 4, he'd feature in "Gordon's best restaurant". These shows titles are different to his "Kitchen Nightmares" but he has the same intentions - let's cook good and f***ing proper.

It's mad and it's cocky but in the end of the day, Ramsay has the nack in producing entertainment like no other. Another UK chef has crossed the Atlantic and travels with different intentions. Jamie Oliver's healthy eating scheme has taken Britain by storm and now, starting from last night he went to Huntington, West Virginia.

His challenge however, seems a little more far fetched than Gordon's. Huntington, according to statistics in 2008 is "the most obese city, in the most obese region, in the most obese country in the world". Those words came from a popular Pastor in this troubled town which gives young children pizza or breakfast as it's "giving them their required amount of bread daily".

Many people already don't like Jamie Oliver in the city which he's helping because he's changing the way in which people eat. Yes, everyone loves to have deep fried chocolate doughnuts for breakfast. It may sound yummy but just imagine what it would do to your body. And the "body" is probably one of the most sensitive debates in the current society today. As Oliver rightly put it, "the kids will lose ten to thirteen years of their lives".

This programme is superb and eye-grabbing so if anyone had missed the episode, just take one hour of your free time and watch it online. And also for light-hearted fun, go and watch Gordon's Best Restaurant, see if your restaurant is in it...

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