"Americanized" reality shows all follow same suit

First, Pop Idol turned into American Idol. Britain's Got Talent eventually became America's Got Talent. NOW, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares serves as the latest in reality television debauchery. Originating in Europe, Chef Gordon Ramsay travelled all over the United Kingdom helping struggling restaurant owners turn their business around to keep them from closing it.

Today, like many other shows originating in the UK, Kitchen Nightmares made its way to the United States as Ramsay attempts to help struggling American restaurant owners.

The show encompasses the common theme of American-made television, that is, to have a foreign personality (in this case British) exhibit this hard-fought, tough-love, a**hole personality! Don't believe me? Look at this type of television with British personalities and notice that with the exception of Sharon Osborne, they ALL possess that character persona of being hard-nosed and "stand-offish". Since Anne from The Weakest Link, there have been many shows that utilize this brand of television including:

• America's Got Talent - Piers Morgan
  
• American Idol - Simon Cowell
  
• So You Think You Can Dance - Nigel Lythgoe
  
• Dancing with the Stars - Leonard Gordon Goodman
  
• Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsay

Listen, I'm all FOR mindless entertainment and sure, when someone gets ripped apart on national television, who doesn't feel a LITTLE bit better about themselves? If nobody felt this way, shows like Intervention and many MTV shows wouldn't exist!

*Tangent*

Back to my point, this mundane form of entertainment is continuing to overshadow the quality and useful programming out there. I mean, how many different ways can you tell someone they suck at cooking or that their outfit looks horrendous?

I'm not saying that I won't watch these shows from time to time, but if regurgitating ideas for shows that originated halfway around the world is where we stand with forming new ideas for shows, then SIGN.ME.UP.