Gordon Ramsay

From Channel 4's website: In January 2009 we're bringing you The Great British Food Fight, a season of food programmes featuring four of the country's most renowned chefs Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay will be celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films.

Also check out the Channel 4's The Great British Food Fight webpage for more information. (Synopsi below are edited versions from Channel 4's page.)

The new season kicks off with Big Chef, Little Chef, in which Michelin-starred chef and 4Food new boy, Heston Blumenthal, attempts to breathe fresh life into the menu of the classic British roadside eatery, Little Chef. Can the maverick chef really bring his passion for excellence and innovation to the iconic but struggling British institution?

Jamie caused a stir with his shock tactic dinner party on Jamie's Fowl Dinners serving up some home truths about the way chickens are raised for consumption. Now he's back and turning his attention to the pig-farming industry with Jamie Saves Our Bacon. Jamie will examine why Britain's pig farmers are going out of business and what can be done to support them. The programme will show exactly how pigs live and die to put pork, ham and bacon on our plates and aims to help consumers make better-informed choices.

While Jamie tackles pigs, fellow campaigner, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, is continuing his campaign to get us eating free range chicken. In Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too, Hugh takes on Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco, which is still reluctant to join Hugh's free range chicken revolution to improve animal welfare. The programme follows Hugh as he becomes a Tesco shareholder and tries to convince fellow shareholders to help him put his case to Tesco's board of directors.

Gordon Ramsay will be back on our screens bringing his restaurant running experience to the aid of local eateries who are struggling to keep going as the credit crunch hits hard. In Ramsay's Great British Nightmare, Gordon will be campaigning to get viewers back into eating out and passing on tips to restaurant owners on how best to cope with the credit crunch.

In Too Fat Too Young, Gok Wan talks to teenagers who have been severely affected by food addiction and explores the frightening extent of Britain's teenage obesity crisis. He meets the experts, discovers some of the reasons behind the complex issue and finds out how and why the problem is growing so rapidly in the UK. Is it worse for young people than ever before?

As the credit crunch bites, thousands of families are cutting back by swapping expensive premium-range food for cheaper budget lines- but at what cost? Food critic and author, Jay Rayner, examines what goes into these budget products and asks why, too often, low cost means low quality. Supermarkets are promoting their cheaper food lines as an answer to tighter household budgets, but how exactly are these foods produced?