Undercover Boss

Marcus Samuelsson and Darius Rucker are going undercover on Undercover Boss, but not as bosses; instead, they’ll search for talent, or something.

Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live yesterday, and took his Star Wars character, Kylo Ren, onto a CBS reality series: Undercover Boss.

Last night’s episode of Undercover Boss followed NASCAR chief marketing officer Steve Phelps, who went undercover because the organization’s actual bosses are too well-known to try to disguise their identity. But even he is well-known, and almost got made twice. But the CBS reality show completely ignored that. I find the show to be pretty …

CBS has ordered a pilot episode for a new competition series from the producers of Undercover Boss that will feature two employees of a company competing for a promotion. The series “has standalone episodes going behind the scenes at major U.S. companies cooperating with the production,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, which notes that “[u]nlike …

On Sunday, the showdown between three reality series seems to have a clear loser, and it’s Donald Trump and his number-one show in the universe. Celebrity Apprentice 3 lost 19 percent of its viewers ages 18 to 49 from the premiere, in part because the two-hour episode aired against both The Amazing Race and Undercover …

CBS has unsurprisingly renewed Undercover Boss, the reality series that follows CEOs who go undercover to find out that their decisions have made life hell for people who they later invite to their offices so they can make vague, cheap promises that still manage to make the workers cry before being celebrated as hero bosses …

Last night, 38.6 million people watched the debut of Undercover Boss following the Super Bowl. That makes it the biggest premiere of a reality show ever, and the third-best performance for a post-Super Bowl show ever, after Survivor Australia in 2001. (Friends’ 1996 showing is number one, but number three is Survivor All-Stars in 2004.) …