King of the Nerds has cancelled by TBS, with the network passing on future seasons of the show, reality blurred has learned. The outstanding competition series aired three seasons, the last of which concluded in March. I confirmed its effective cancellation with the network, which told me, “TBS has no plans to make additional episodes at …
After two seasons of having a female winner and thereby making its title factually inaccurate, King of the Nerds has a male winner. The final two, Ben and Jonathan, were two male Ph.D.s, ensuring a male winner before the final challenge. As Amanda said, “I guess a guy finally had to win eventually, so I guess …
King of the Nerds is in the middle of its third season on TBS right now, and it’s better than ever, just incredibly enjoyable competition reality television. For the not-yet-addicted, I wrote about why you should be watching King of the Nerds for HitFix. The reasons I listed are pretty much the same things that I’ve …
Stories from the past week ABC has bumped a new The Bachelorette episode on Monday, so it can broadcast Diane Sawyer’s interview with Hillary Clinton to promote her new book. Bachelorette host Chris Harrison apologized because viewers now have to watch manufactured bullshit hosted by a disingenuous whiner, instead of watching manufactured bullshit hosted by …
King of the Nerds concludes Thursday night, having been even stronger in season two, and a big reason for that is that it upped its challenge game. It has the very best challenges on reality TV right now. I’m being somewhat incendiary with the headline, but I do think that the show is frequently giving …
The Nerd Off challenge on last night’s King of the Nerds was insane: intense, hilarious, and full of actual consequence–a battle between good and evil that worked on every level a reality TV competition needs to work. In this case, evil is Zack, this season’s villain. He’s prone to frustrated, angry outbursts during which he …
TBS’ surprisingly fun and strong competition King of the Nerds concluded last night, giving its winner $100,000 and the ability to sit atop the Throne of Games. (The winner did not get to keep the throne, alas.) Its final three were all women and all gamers, which the winner–22-year-old Canadian gamer Celeste Anderson–attributes to helping …