Gordon Behind Bars — Season 1
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay thinks it's time Britain's prisoners paid their way. There are 88,000 prisoners in the UK and it costs the taxpayer 38,000 pounds to keep each of them locked up for a year
About this season
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay thinks it's time Britain's prisoners paid their way. There are 88,000 prisoners in the UK and it costs the taxpayer 38,000 pounds to keep each of them locked up for a year. Gordon's given himself six months to set up a successful food business behind bars. His aim: to get prisoners cooking food on the inside to sell on the outside.
Episodes (4)
1. Episode 1
Aired 26 June 2012 • 47 min
Gordon arrives at the notorious HM Prison Brixton, in the hopes of taking non working prisoners and molding them into working cooks. Can Ramsay deal with offenders from murders to a man who was found with a shotgun under his bed?
2. Episode 2
Aired 3 July 2012 • 47 min
Now narrowed down to twelve prisoners, Gordon must try to get the pilot prison food program off the ground with members who in thirty seconds could destroy half the team.
3. Episode 3
Aired 10 July 2012 • 47 min
After two months of success, Gordon now wants to expand the prisoner's food selections and go commercial. Meanwhile the team has dwindled down yet again.
4. Episode 4
Aired 17 July 2012 • 47 min
The six months are up, the team is now even smaller, and everything is now on the line. Can it all be a success? Can lives be turned around? Will the program be allowed to continued?