Kitchen (TV series)

Kitchen (Russian: Кухня) is a Russian sitcom, broadcast on STS from 2012 to 2016. The show focuses on the comedic events that unfold in a fictional restaurant in Moscow called Claude Monet. Since season 5, the events unfold in the Victor restaurant of the Eleon boutique hotel.
The show is set in Moscow and mainly focuses on the young and enthusiastic Maxim "Max" Lavrov, who dreams of becoming a renowned chef one day, so after graduating from a culinary college in his home town of Voronezh and completing his army service, he applies for a job in one of the most expensive restaurants of Moscow Claude Monet, owned by Dmitry Nagiyev, a famous Russian actor and TV host. The show includes other characters like Max's best friend bartender Konstantin, his love interest (and later wife) Viktoria and his boss Viktor Barinov, the head chef of Claude Monet.
The filming began in July 2012. The show became one of the most expensive TV series in Russia, with a budget of US$200,000 per episode (about $8 million per season). The first episode aired on STS Channel on October 22, 2012, at 21:00.
The second season began filming on November 1, 2012, and was aired on March 25, 2013.
In summer 2013, filming for the third season began. In September 2013, the production team filmed a feature-length film named The Kitchen in Paris. The movie premiered in cinemas on May 1, 2014, while the third season began airing on March 3, 2014, following the airing of a documentary film The Kitchen's Kitchen (A film about the film) on STS on March 2.
At the end of April 2014, filming for the fourth season began, and the first episode was aired on October 13, 2014.
From January 26 to April 30, 2015, season 5 was filmed. It premiered on September 7, 2015.
From June 25 through til October 15, 2015, season 6 was filmed. It was announced as the final season. It premiered on February 29, 2016.
The show officially finished all filming on October 15, 2015. Fans, knowing about the ending of the show, created a site in support of recommencing filming. On the site, more than 1 million signatures were collected by January 2016. The ending of the show was connected with the completion of the plot line for the main characters.
On May 27, 2014, work began on a new full-length film called The Kitchen: The Last Battle. In June 2015, official preparation for filming began. The filming took place from September 17, 2016, through till February 2017. It premiered in cinemas on April 20, 2017.
From July 4 to September 23, 2016, a spin-off show was filmed called Hotel Eleon. It premiered on STS on November 28, 2016. The Director, Anton Fedotov, also directed the final 3 seasons of The Kitchen. The new show also included some of the characters from The Kitchen (For example, Senya and Marina, Kostya and Nastya, Michail Jekovich, Eleonora Andreevna, Kristina, Nikita, as well as a number of secondary actors. Likewise, in the second season there are appearances from Louis Benoît, Ekaterina Semyonova, Rodion Sergeevich and Ainura Kenensarova).
The show has been very successful in Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union. The show made the channel STS the number 1 channel in the "21:00-21:30", surpassing Channel 1, HTB, Russia-1 and other channels.
Adaptation of the series in other countries: