Kitchen Confidential
originally aired on FOX
Kitchen Confidential debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book. Bradley Cooper played the lead character, Jack Bourdain, inspired by Bourdain. The show's first three episodes aired on Fox, the show was put on hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs. Fox announced the show would not air during sweeps and that only 13 episodes would be produced because it was averaging 4 million viewers.