Serving up broadcast solutions for Hells Kitchen
Having Marco Pierre White back New presenter Claudia Winkleman hosted the live show nightly from the Hell’s Kitchen
in the kitchen with a group of
restaurant in East London when it returned for its fourth series and having just one
unsuspecting celebrities
kitchen shared between the competitors instead of two, the show certainly provided a
determined to face the heat,
few frazzled moments for the celebrity chefs. With only two weeks to learn how to
cook to Marco’s exacting culinary standards, TV presenter Anthea Turner; model
2009’s series of Hells Kitchen
Danielle Bux; singer Ms Dynamite; actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson; former
performed well for ITV1 with Liverpool goalie Bruce Grobbelaar; entrepreneur Grant Bovey; actor Jody Latham and
viewing figures reaching a high
actress Linda Evans all strived to win the coveted prize of becoming Hells Kitchen
of 5.2m for the finale.
2009 winning chef.
Presteigne Charter was brought in to facilitate all the transmission and reality set-ups
required by ITV for the 14 day live broadcast, televised in April of this year.
In addition to providing video routers, audio desks, cameras and VTRs, Presteigne
Charter also provided custom built equipment for receiving radio microphones and
radio cameras. Presteigne Charter’s Head of Audio, Paul Murray created a complete
RF antenna system in order that the celebrities’ microphones could be received in both
studios. Furthermore, the RF camera department also designed and built a system
that included autocue being returned to the RF cameras and a portable RF monitor for
host Claudia to view and comment on. With such a large audio requirement
Presteigne Charter’s challenge was to keep the audio moving around the system
without using miles of copper. However utilising Madi down fiber and channelling
everything through the LAWO mainframe easily resolved this.
With ex-Dynasty star Linda Evans winning Hells Kitchen 2009, the show was
considered an overall success. As Roy Callow, Presteigne Charter’s Unit Manager
commented: “Hells Kitchen changed both technically and as a show format this time
around. The technology Presteigne Charter employed was chosen to push this type of
reality television forward, whilst simultaneously trying to save time during the rig
periods. Not forgetting keeping the project as cost effective for the client as possible.”
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