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The Chopping Block: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 11, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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  • Summary: Gordan Ramsey's former boss Marco Pierre White gets into the cooking reality TV business with a team competition to win $250,000 to open a restaurant.
  • Genre(s): Reality

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    70
    Not everyone dreams of opening a fusion bistro or perfecting a vol-au-vent, but many feel that they had a tougher time learning their trade than younger, mollycoddled and overly entitled upstarts. And for those, The Chopping Block cuts just right.
  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    60
    As reality shows go, the concept isn't bad: Two teams with four couples each operate restaurants across the street from one another in New York. But Chopping Block botches the introductions in tonight's premiere.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    The glowering White--with his brooding eyes, tennis shoes and Three Stooges' Larry Fine haircut--is more pretentious and irritating than most.

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  1. RayRay
    10
    I love the show but it doesn't always seem to be on it isn't on tonight 04-01 What gives!? Is it on every week? I can't find it on the NBC schedule! I'm pissed!… Expand
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  2. mitchb
    9
    It's way better than Law and Order! I've had enough of law and stupid cop shows. They are all the same. Why start a show that will have a winner and cancel it 3 episodes in? What's that point in that? At least finish out the season so we see who wins! Bad move by NBC. They ax everything. Freeks and Geeks, great show, they pulled the plug.… Expand
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  3. HoraceH
    0
    Wow. Really awful. It really showed me how good Top Chef really is. I am still shocked at how obnoxious the host and the food critic was, how the couples thing made no sense (why is one a "chef" and one worthless?), and how they were given no time to come up with a concept which gave viewers no time to figure out who/what we liked. Talk about terrible editing. The concept is stolen from Top Chef's "restaurant wars," but I'd rather watch a Top Chef re-run every week than this show ever again.… Expand
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