While two reality TV mainstays aired last night - American Idol and Dancing with the Stars - a couple of other modest hits also hits the airways. Here's a recap of them both...

Hell's Kitchen: This week both teams had to cook for a girl's Sweet 16 party. Both teams go to Farmers Market and have to decide which food to buy. This is a really funny sequence, if only for the fact that no one listens to a thing Matt says... -- TV Squad

A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila: The Message in the Bottle informs the contestants it's time for Tila Tequila's Second Annual Bi-Athlon. The entire race must be run while wearing a wet suit and flippers, through a kiddie pool, into the real pool to retrieve a pearl necklace, into another kiddie pool to get an assigned blue ball in their mouths, and down the Slip 'n' Slide... -- BuddyTV

If you haven't seen the video of Paula Abdul screwing up more than ever on American Idol, check it out now. Then, read through the following pair of reality TV recaps...

Hell's Kitchen: This week's challenge is to make pizza. Gordon Ramsay wants to put a gourmet pizza on the menu (but not one topped with truffles, because they cost approximately $9000 each). He gives the teams 45 minutes to come up with a gourmet pizza... -- TV Squad

A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila: The final 18 arrive at the mansion in limos, pink and blue, natch. Chad is more excited to move into Tila than he is moving into the house, if you get his meaning. Michelle wants to bite Tila's sexy Asian ass. They see the big bed, and Brittany promises to castrate any male genitalia in her face... -- BuddyTV

With American Idol on last night, it was easy to forget that A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila premiered its second season, while Hell's Kitchen continued to escalate Gordon Ramsay's blood pressure into dangerously high levels.

Here are recaps of the latter two shows:

A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila: The girls are assigned to do a talent show. Kristy does cartwheels. Tashi hula hoops. Samantha is a cheerleader. Brittany pogo sticks. Tarra plays the accordion. Janny sings poorly. V does some slam poetry... -- BuddyTV

Hell's Kitchen: The show picks up right where last week left off. The chefs, after an appalling service, head up to their lair for some R&R. Ramsay finds the PA system and orders them back to kitchen to clean up, even though it's after midnight... Reality TV Magazine

We're still in awe of David Cook's performance on American Idol last night. But here's a recap of three other reality shows from the evening...

Hell's Kitchen: Jen is still upset about Corey picking her and Christina for elimination last week. She says that "the dumb blonde" was stupid to pick the most intelligent person in the group and one of the strongest in the group, though she doesn't clarify which she is... -- TV Squad

Big Brother: Natalie, delusional little chipmunk that she is, has given up counting miscellaneous objects to concentrate on telling Adam that she is going to win the PoV and take him off the block... -- Zap2It

The Biggest Loser: Ali immediately called Mark out on all his crying this season. He made a point to say that getting voted out and then having the chance to come back made him realize how great of an opportunity it was and that he wasn't going to get wrapped up in game-play... TV Guide

While American Idol finalists attempted to inspire last night, a trio of other reality shows didn't aim nealtly as high. Their goal, instead? High ratings. Here's are a few recaps...

Hell's Kitchen: We have the ceremonial lighting of the millions of fires and spotlights that festoon the outside of Hell's Kitchen itself, making it as bright as the sun. But there's no time to speculate on their moth problem because we have to get the extremely short introductions... Television Without Pity

The Biggest Loser: On tonight's episode of The Biggest Loser, the final four contestants flew back to the campus from Australia but had to work out without their trainers. First, Rocco DiSpirito returned to the show after talking to everyone's families. He showed them their favorite dishes that they loved to eat before they came to The Biggest Loser and reminded them how unhealthy their eating habits used to be... BuddyTV

Big Brother: After Adam honored his word to James (which he later admitted was probably because he got caught up in James' sob story), Sheila went on a rampage reminiscent of her first week in the house... TV Guide

While it may have been overshadowed by American Idol and the Dancing with the Stars results show last night, Hell's Kitchen premiered its fourth season. Oh, and Beauty and the Geek was on.

Let's find out what happened on each!

Hell's Kitchen: There is one funny moment in this premiere. In a twist, Ramsay disguises himself as one of the contestants (looking a little bit like Howard Stern) and infiltrates the group as they come to the restaurant on a bus... -- TV Squad

Beauty and the Geek: When last we saw her, Tara was about to choose between Jonathan and Joe to be her partner. Tonight's Beauty and the Geek begins with her decision. She chooses.....Joe, who is now the happiest cowboy in the world. Good-bye, Jonathan! He's looking forward to going home and seeing his mom... -- Buddy TV

Gordon Ramsay is counting down the days until Hell's Kitchen Season Four premieres.

"I'm very excited about Season 4, more so than any other year before. When you look at the setup in terms of the level of professionalism, this year we've raised the bar," Ramsay told reporters during a Monday conference call.

Unlike previous editions of the show, Hell's Kitchen's fourth-season cast will be competing for an executive chef position in one of Ramsay's own restaurants: The London West Hollywood.

"Looking for a chef personally is something I've stood by, got very nervous about and more importantly, I'd like to think that we have the most amazing -- I hate that word 'cast' -- I call them chefs," Ramsay said. "Fox wanted to run a show and I run the restaurant, so it's a great team of chefs, more so than any other year."

As for the fourth-season female contestants? The foul-mouthed chef describes them as "amazing."

"I've never seen anything quite like it," he said. "It's quite refreshing, really on the back of a male dominant, chauvinistic stance that kitchens have today, so I was really pleased."

Hell's Kitchen will premiere on April 1.

The fourth season of Hell's Kitchen premieres on April 1.

The new chefs will be:

• Ben Caylor, Charlotte, NC
• Bobby Anderson, Niagra Falls, NY
• Christina Machamer, St. Louis, MO
• Corey Earling, Brooklyn, NY

• Craig Schneider, Coram, NY
• Dominic DiFrancesco, Catawba, SC
• Jason Underwood, Las Vegas, NV
• Jennifer Gavin, Chicago, IL
• Louis Petrozza, Charlotte, NC
• Louross Edralin, Las Vegas, NV
• Matt Sigel, Pinehill, NJ
• Rosann Fama, Staten Island, NY
• Sharon Stewart, Las Vegas, NV
• Shayna Zodoka, Buffalo, NY
• Vanessa Gunnell, Bozeman, MT

We have no idea what to say about this reality TV news item. So we'll just report on it as if it's not the least bit unusual or disturbing:

A Hell's Kitchen video game is in the works. It will be produced by interactive entertainment company Ludia and offered across all major platforms, including PC, console and mobile.

"We are thrilled that Granada, a highly respected and successful global media company, is entrusting us with the Hell's Kitche' property," Ludia founder and CEO Alex Thabet said. "The show has millions of viewers, and the game will bring the fun of the kitchen boot camp experience from the TVs to the PCs and consoles of this rapidly growing audience."

The game will feature Gordan Ramsay prominently, of course, and be released around the same time as the fourth season of Hell's Kitchen in the United States, sometime in 2008.

Moreover, the game will feature a recipe book containing several of Ramsay's favorite food concoctions, according to Reality TV Magazine, that players can print out and cook up in the real world.

Top Chef judge and restaurateur Tom Colicchio has a bone to pick with his Hell's Kitchen counterpart Gordon Ramsay over the way Fox's foul-mouthed culinary king treats his aspiring chefs.

"I watched five minutes of [Hell's Kitchen] once and turned it off because I can't deal with people screaming at chefs," said Colicchio. "I try to treat the [Top Chef] contestants the way I would treat the cooks in my kitchen - you have to be firm, you have to criticize them, but you do it in a way to build them up, not rip them apart."

Colicchio said he works nights so he's not usually around to watch much TV, and when he does find himself in-front of the television it's usually to watch his favorites.

"It's not [Hell's Kitchen]," he told TV Guide.

Colicchio said he considers his Bravo reality show's third-season cast, which consists mostly of sous chefs or executive chefs, to be "a deeper talent pool" than Top Chef's previous seasons. Nevertheless, he couldn't help but offer some words of wisdom from his decades of experience in the restaurant industry.

"Simple is better than complicated, especially when you're doing things under time constraints," he told TV Guide. "I think too often their minds are racing so quickly that they end up doing more than they can handle. The chefs that are really going to distinguish themselves are the chefs that are going to do something uniquely their own. You want to see someone's own style and personality on the plate."