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Kitchen Confidential (2005)
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Kitchen Confidential (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley Cooper played the Anthony Bourdain-inspired lead character, Jack Bourdain. After the show's first three episodes aired on Fox, the show was put on hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. In November 2005, Fox announced the show would not air during sweeps and that only 13 episodes would be produced as it was only averaging 4 million viewers. The show returned on December 5, 2005, with its fourth episode, but only received 3.38 million viewers. Four days later, Fox announced the cancellation of the series.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
Plot: chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, comeback, coworker, lifestyle, lifestyle change, workplace situations, one more chance, success, friendship, starting over, workplace, hopes, character change, life changing experience, supportive friend, workplace humor, waiter, friends, career, dating, staff, career change ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city

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Alice (1976)
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Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: USA
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TV show
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TV show
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TV show
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Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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36%