Gordon Ramsay's disguise fetish has scored a new TV show

Tragically, all of the material in the sneak peek trailer released today appears to have been created specifically for the promo, with an eye toward making Ramsay look like his own private definition of cool, so we don’t get to see how the show’s “food spy” conceit works in the real world. (Note: Gordon Ramsay’s definition of cool appears to still be firmly stuck in 1996.) The actual conceit of the series sounds pretty much like Ramsay’s other shows where he yells at people for how messy their kitchens are, with the added trick of having undercover workers spying on their co-workers on his behalf. (Also, he intends to sneak in after-hours with a black light, which should scratch that gross itch that these shows primarily exist to service.)

Or, in Ramsay’s own words: “With undercover help and cutting-edge technology, I get to go full on ‘MI6’ with these restaurants — and they’ll never see it coming.” (We’re pretty sure that doesn’t mean watching a Michelin-starred chef exercise a license to kill on someone trying to serve him out-of-date clams, but hey, we could always get lucky.)