# Is Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back a 24 reboot?

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**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gordon-ramsays-24-hours-to-hell-and-back-a-24-reboot/830522 "2019-03-04T10:55:22Z")\
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After the lackluster reception 24: Legacy received, I had heard a rumor that Fox was looking to reboot the show. One silly concept I heard was a legal drama, which would at least turn the typical formula on its head (“Adjourned for six weeks while the motion is considered? Dammit, that’s way too much time!”) but would be way too contrived. However, it occurred to me that 24 may have actually had a soft reboot already, in the form of Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. As I originally put it:

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> I just watched a new episode of 24. It had a battle-scarred veteran going undercover and then revealing himself to go into combat. There were threats and hostage situations and torture and some really gory scenes. There was family drama and a betrayal by a lieutenant. There was a truckload of elite commandos with state of the art gear. There was even a couple of people who were blindfolded and driven into the woods to be shown a shocking secret that changed their lives.
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> I am of course referring to the new series Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. It is bizarre how much it resembled an episode of 24. It even had split screens and the beep boop beep as the clock ticked down. I hope I’m not the only one who noticed this show is 24 set in a random restaurant except instead of a dirty bomb the threat is a dirty walk-in freezer.

Now I only watched the first episode so I am not sure if this new GR series took on a life of its own but to me it was a reality show version of 24 with the exact same plot holes (Jack Bauer and Gordon Ramsay both apparently never need to sleep). Did anyone else notice similarities between the two?