ABC’s extreme obstacle course competition series Wipeout is losing its co-host Jill Wagner, who’s being replaced by former True Beauty host Vanessa Minnillo as of next season’s Winter Wipeout. In a statement, executive producer Matt Kunitz said, “We will miss Jill, but are thrilled to welcome Vanessa to the team and excited to bring her …
The third season of ABC’s Wipeout, the ridiculously fun stunt reality competition that I can’t get enough of, will be previewed tonight with a two-hour “blind date” episode that starts at 8 p.m. ET. (The actual season debuts in three weeks.) And throughout the spring, details have surfaced about its modified obstacle course. In an …
A 33-year-old contestant on the third season of ABC’s Wipeout died last Thursday as a result of a stroke. Entertainment Tonight reports that Tom Sparks “was complaining of knee pain on the first part of the show’s obstacle course, and the producers told him to stop. As the medics checked him out they noticed he …
ABC’s Wipeout will return for a third season, since it’s very successful for ABC, although it’s taken a hit from So You Think You Can Dance this summer with its move to Wednesday nights. For its new season, the show will get a new obstacle course with crazy things for people to bounce off of, …
With three new reality shows airing at the same time on Wednesday night, there is one clear loser and no clear winner: Despite Heidi and Spencer’s best efforts, NBC’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here 2 has about half of the viewership of both Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and ABC’s Wipeout. …
ABC’s successful summer reality competition Wipeout has attracted a lawsuit from the Tokyo Broadcasting System, which says the show rips off its series Takeshi’s Castle, the series Spike TV broadcasts as MXC. The Japanese network claims “that ABC bought search terms such as ‘MXC’ on Google to help drive traffic to the official ‘Wipeout’ page, …
ABC’s summer hit Wipeout has now been sold to 17 different territories, and all of the non-U.S. productions will tape on the show’s new obstacle course in Argentina. Most recently, “BBC1 in Blighty, Telecinco in Spain, RTL4 in the Netherlands and Channel 10 in Israel” picked up the show, according to Variety, and “ProSieben in …