Conviction Kitchen is latest show to fire up for Seven
Seven’s dream start to the ratings year has continued with Conviction Kitchen rising to above 1m viewers on its fourth outing.
After debuting with 825,000 viewers in the Tuesday 9.30pm timeslot, followed by 757,000 a week later, Conviction Kitchen was moved into Monday at 8.30pm last week where it delivered 942,000.
Last night, the show – featuring convicted criminals seeking redemption through cooking – was up again to 1.033m, seventh for the night, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
More like exploitation kitchen, was disgusted to flick across to it to see them cashing in on the situation of a woman being beaten by her abusive ex-boyfriend. Absolutely shameless.
The concept is vile. Its food. Fuel of life. To be prepared by scum. Its hard enough to attract quality people to this industry. Why not have conviction kindergarden? If the people aren’t safe with your children they aren’t safe with your food either.
cheffy you are right what absolute garbage Iam in the industry I didn’t watch it because the adverts were enough to make me dry reach Jeez 7 produces some crap
I don’t understand why they are “promoting” convicts. It could encourage kids to go to jail with the chance of being on Conviction Kitchen when they get out. A second chance for the convicts? I think there are other misfortunate people in Australia that they can put on this show – I could suggest the victim of their crimes??
very watchable – but wrong
I agree with the above but the question has be to be asked why are so many watching this garbage.
Count yourselves lucky.
When the Channel 7 guys were throwing around ideas for this, they also considered the following:
Bitchin’ Kitchen.
Australian rappers and their bitchin’ hoes cook in their pimped-up kitchens. Bitchin’ hoes wear micro-shorts and tiny midriff-exposing aprons.
Minchin’s Kitchen.
Senator Nick Minchin cooks his favourite casseroles and roasts, while explaining the pro’s and con’s of joint military exercises between Australia and our Northern neighbors.
Lynchin’ Kitchen.
Radio shock-jocks cook their favourite meals (bile on toast, bile soup, stir-fried bile) while turning their lynch-mob invective onto a different easy target every week. Refugees and Muslims will feature heavily.
Hitchin’ Kitchen.
Three chefs (female) one diner (male). Whichever meal the guy prefers, he marries the chef who made it.
Stitchin’ Kitchen.
Hapless diners must chow down on rare steak, steak tartare and various offal delights while watching explicit footage of highly invasive surgery. The last to vomit wins.
I’m right with you Sep… what about a second chance at a normal existence for those people that have been subjected to these idiots..
Rubbish show.
You dont get 8 years in jail for a minor crime.
And what about the Victims of these crimes? anyone spare a thought for the 7 Network cashing in on this?
If only this fell under the proceeds of crime law.
I am disgusted at the comments on this story!! What kind of privileged existence have you high paid execs been subject to and for how long, such that you have forgotten how to have empathy and see the good that is coming from teaching these “drains on society” how to lead a meaningful existence? Let’s not forget the viewers who have come from similar backgrounds being inspired by the show.
Incapacitation and retribution are only one part of crime punishment. That takes the baddies off the streets, keeps us safe in the short term and matches their crime with a punishment. At some point, these people have to come back and fit into society. These people need skills so that they can earn an honest living – otherwise they will just go back to what they know. You might think it is a cop-out but I would prefer that someone taught ‘the guy who robbed me’ how to do good for others and earn a wage rather than come back to steal my money.
There are some who are convicted cooks and there are some cooks that should be convicted.
I think the show is a great way for them all to get the SECOND CHANCE that no one else would give them good on ya channel seven. Its not as if they have murdered any one, so why not give them that chance to get there life back on track.
It is called rehabilitation. Not that different from Jamie Olivers 15 concept.
Not everyone is given examples to lead them throgh life – this sort of thing can do that. The shame is that it is somewhat exploitative in the process in filming it for our viewing entertainment – but a solid idea none the less.
My issue is not with giving criminals a second chance, its exploiting the situations that arise (like taking advantage of a real woman getting really beaten by her abusive boyfriend to create drama on the show)
I’d rather see a show where they boiled all these failures into a large stew and fed it to some hungry dogs
wow you moderators are nazis. too bad, this blog looked good. seeya.
The funny thing is…
All these people who don’t like the show probably work and know people may even have some as friends who’ve been in jail or done stuff and don’t know anything as they are never told just for the reasons the people say on this page.
Being DUI can get you put into jail for 2-3 years.
I wonder if the people above have been busted for DUI or even their kids being busted for DUI or drugs etc and end up in jail I guess they probably shun their own kid and never hear or see them again?
congratulations, very good program, good luck to all convicts. Work hard, thinks twice, do whatever you can do to improove, challenge your better future. People does not like those who was against the law, but all of you can change that and show that not everyone are the bad people.