Underplayed Gems

Bar Rescue (2011)

Bar Rescue poster
Genre
reality television
Country
United States
Length
4 seasons, 131 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 54 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An expert bar consultant visits struggling bars to help them turn around their failing businesses. He uses his experience and funding for renovations to fix problems and try to keep the bars open.

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What happens

Bar Rescue is an American reality television series that airs on Paramount Network (formerly Spike during the first five seasons). It stars Jon Taffer, a long-time food and beverage industry consultant specializing in nightclubs, bars, and pubs. Taffer offers his professional expertise, renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in an effort to save them from closing. The show premiered on what was then known as Spike in the United States on July 17, 2011. In the UK, the show originally aired on 5Star, later moving to Spike (UK), which is now 5Spike/5Action. A spin-off series titled Marriage Rescue premiered on June 2, 2019. On September 22, 2020, it was announced that the series would move to another ViacomCBS (now Paramount Skydance) network, as part of a since-rescinded plan to shift the Paramount Network to television films and miniseries. Bar Rescue's move also never took place, as its eighth season premiered on Paramount Network on May 2, 2021. The eighth season focused on Taffer's residence of Las Vegas, a city whose hospitality industry was devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic, then returned with episodes of bars throughout the United States in its traditional format on March 20, 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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