Hell's Kitchen is a British cookery reality show, aired on ITV, which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize.

Series 1 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast from 23 May to 6 June 2004, airing live nightly for two weeks.

The format was overhauled as the show was turned into a competition between two kitchens run by "celebrity chefs" Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novelli.

The contestants who took part were: Series 3 was due to begin in mid-2006, with Jean-Christophe Novelli as the sole head chef; however, ITV made the decision to take a break from producing Hell's Kitchen.

The celebrities who took part were: Most countries adapt to the American version, airing pre recorded weekly instead of airing live daily, no presenter and just a voiceover, a challenge with the winner earning a reward and the loser doing a punishment, the customers being mostly from the public instead of celebrities with their loved ones and eliminations made by the head chef and not through viewer voting.

The Australian, German and Spanish versions were modeled after the British series, where the contestants are celebrities with no professional culinary backgrounds, many may also be complete novices in cooking in general.