The Biggest Loser repeatedly emphasizes careful, thoughtful eating along with exercise, although we don’t always see the contestants struggling to make their own food on television. But what do viewers do while watching the NBC reality series on TV? They eat fattening, calorie-filled shit. Last September, Ernie Hsiung blogged that Twitter posts revealed hysterical eating …
The Biggest Loser 7
In its newly expanded two-hour form, The Biggest Loser 7 is gaining viewers against American Idol, which is losing viewers although is still far more popular. Last Tuesday, the NBC weight loss competition had 11 million viewers, “its best viewership for a non-finale, non-premiere episode in four years despite airing against ‘Idol’ in its first …
Bob Harper, the more mild-mannered Biggest Loser trainer who has described his work as “God’s calling,” unloaded on a contestant during Tuesday’s episode, resulting in more fireworks than were on the first episode of American Idol 8. Before Bob started screaming, he said in an interview, “I was so pissed during that last chance workout …
The seventh season of The Biggest Loser kicks off tonight, as does a brand-new ABC reality series that follows people who work in the Department of Homeland Security. ABC’s Homeland Security USA is from Arnold Shapiro, who most recently produced Big Brother until he quit. The network says the series gives “an unprecedented look at …