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Popular reality fare about overweight people competing on two teams, each with a trainer. `The biggest [weight] loser' (through diet and exercise, and without surgery), says host Caroline Rhea, gains `a new body, a new life and $250,000.' At the end of each episode, there's a weigh-in. Whichever group loses fewer pounds must shed one of its own players. In the second season, men (the blue team) and women (the red team) competed against each other.

Biggest Loser's Alison Sweeney Expecting Second Child | Today's News: Our Take | 6/24/2008
What could be more appropriate than Biggest Loser host Alison Sweeney first announcing the expansion of her own family to the cast of Biggest Loser: Families? Nothing, apparently.According to People, the Days of Our Lives star did just that Monday night, telling the gang that she and husband are expecting a second child. "She told them that, in a season all about family, hers is about to get bigger," said the star's rep.Sweeney and husband Dave Sanov already have a 3-year-old son named Ben.... read more
Biggest Loser Champ Ali Vincent Dishes on Dropping Pounds | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/18/2008
Even after Ali Vincent and her mother, Bette-Sue Burkland, were kicked off, the plucky 234-pound hairstylist vowed to become The Biggest Loser champion. A second-chance opportunity gave the 33-year-old from Mesa, Arizona, just the leverage she needed to get back in the game and shed 112 pounds. In pink rhinestone-heeled pumps and a little black dress, the new 122-pound Vincent took home the $250,000 prize and became the first woman to beat the big boys. Minutes after being showered in confetti... read more
For Biggest Loser's Kelly Fields, Ex Marked the Spot | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/18/2008
Their marriage didn't work out, but Kelly Fields and her ex-husband, Paul Marks, decided to work off their weight together on The Biggest Loser: Couples. Weighing in as the most portly pair, Kelly also ranked as the heaviest woman competing on the show at 271 pounds. But the 39-year-old nurse from Titusville, Florida, finished in third place at 162 pounds, arriving at the finale 109 lighter ? and solo. TVGuide.com: Why do the show with your ex, when you'd already started dating someone ... read more
Biggest Loser's Bernie Salazar Is Still a Winner | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/18/2008
In a finale upset, eliminated 27-year-old Biggest Loser contestant Bernie Salazar won the $100,000 prize by a single pound over Massachusetts family man Mark Kruger. The Chicago teacher weighed in at 153 pounds, a loss of 130 pounds from his 283 starting weight. Calling from his cell phone on the day after the taping, Salazar was still in a state of shock. TVGuide.com: You were the surprise winner of the night, beating Mark Kruger by just one pound.Bernie Salazar: That?s an understatement. I... read more
Loser Winner "Milks" Her Biggest Victory | Today's News: Our Take | 4/16/2008
Ali Vincent, the newly crowned winner of NBC's The Biggest Loser, is starring in a "Got Milk?" ad, running (among other places) in today's edition of USA Today, the nation's newspaper (if I may harken back to days of yore). The ad copy reads: "It feels good to lose. It feels good to win. So along with eating right and keeping fit, I drink milk. Drinking three glasses of lowfat or fat-free milk a day helps you get the calcium and nutrients your body needs. Plus, the protein helps build muscle.... read more
Biggest Loser's Live Finale | Today's Top Videos | 4/15/2008
Gear up because tonight's Biggest Loser is going to be a big one (OK, that pun was intended). And rather than being strung along through 29 commercial breaks, you're going to find out who goes home live in the first five minutes. Don't forget to stick around for the emotional homecomings when former contestants return to reveal that they've lost what amounts to an adult person in pounds. Watch it now! | More online videos read more
Trainers Not Pumped About Biggest Loser Twist | Today's News: Our Take | 4/7/2008
Are Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels raving about the decision to let viewers vote this week on who The Biggest Loser's third finalist should be? Fat chance. Michaels, for one, is "disappointed' with the change in format. "Biggest Loser is not a popularity contest. It's so much more than that," she said in a Friday conference call. "I don't get it, personally."Like Michaels, Harper fears that fans don't have enough information to adequately weigh in on so pivotal a decision, since fans have not... read more
Ask Matt | 4/7/2008
Q: Have you commented on how excruciating it is to watch certain TV shows that are so padded with filler? If it weren't for TiVo, they would be unwatchable. I am talking, of course, about The Biggest Loser and Deal or No Deal. Loser is still two hours a pop, which is ridiculous with only six people left. Then to make matters worse, they bring back two people so they can stretch it out another two weeks! Without commercials, Loser is about 80 minutes, and I'd say 60 minutes are meaningless ... read more
Viewers to Weigh In on The Biggest Loser | Today's News: Our Take | 3/20/2008
Looks like viewers will be tasked to decide one more reality show contestant's fate. At the end of the April 8 episode of NBC's The Biggest Loser, producers will call upon "America" to pick the third finalist competing for the weight-loss competition's $250,000 prize. As of that next-to-last episode, four dieters will remain. The two who drop the most pounds that week will be guaranteed spots in the finale. The two who lose the least — falling below the show's infamous "yellow" line —... read more
News Briefs: Biggest Loser, Riches and Shrek | Today's News: Our Take | 2/12/2008
NBC has greenlit a sixth season of The Biggest Loser, to premiere in the fall. The plan is to repeat the current cycle's concept of casting teams of two.... FX has announced a March 18 Season 2 premiere for The Riches, which this time around will serve up only seven episodes.... Shrek: The Musical brings the big green guy to Broadway Dec. 14, with previews starting Nov. 8. Shrek and Donkey have yet top be cast, while Sutton Foster (currently Young Frankenstein's Inga) is onboard as Fiona. My... read more
Ratings: Biggest Loser Sees Big Gains | Today's News: Our Take | 1/23/2008
Tuesday's highlights:• American Idol delivered 29.05 million total viewers, a year-over-year dip of six percent. • Averaging 8.94 mil over its two-hour run, The Biggest Loser was up 25 percent week-to-week.• One Tree Hill scored 3.05 mil, an 11 percent increase.• At 10 o'clock, SVU served up 12.97 mil (up 830K), while Boston Legal (8.24 mil) gained 340 thou.In other ratings news, CNN's coverage of Monday night's Democratic presidential debate was the most-watched primary... read more
Ratings: Does Tree Hill's Future Look Bright? | Today's News: Our Take | 1/9/2008
Tuesday's ratings recap:• The future-shocked One Tree Hill averaged 3.47 million total viewers over its two-hour premiere, a negligible dip from its Sept. '06 season-opener, and giving the CW its largest Tuesday audience since May 15, 2007.• The Biggest Loser drew 8.9 mil in its first hour and 11.47 mil from 9 to 10, putting it at No. 2 in total viewers (behind NCIS and House repeats), but No. 1 in key demos.• The people's choice was not to watch the People's Choice Awards (six... read more
Cheers: ABC's Winning Decision | Cheers & Jeers | 1/9/2008
Cheers to ABC for devoting a half-hour of prime time to coverage of the New Hampshire primary. After the Alphabet scored surprisingly strong ratings Saturday night with the candidates' debates, the 'net happily bumped an episode of Just for Laughs to make room for Charlie Gibson and Co. CBS and NBC, on the other hand, stuck with the People's Choice Awards and The Biggest Loser. ABC offered its own versions, with John McCain as the People's Choice and Mitt Romney as the Biggest Loser on the... read more
Terminator Preview and More News Briefs | Today's News: Our Take | 1/3/2008
Fox will preview the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Yahoo! for a 24-hour period beginning Friday at midnight ET, on Yahoo!.... E! has greenlit a second season of the late-night talker Chelsea Lately, to begin airing Monday (talk about cutting it close).... Biggest Loser champ Bill Garmanakos and his twin Jim rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning.... ABC Family's annual "25 Days of Christmas" event delivered its best-ever ratings, with... read more
The Biggest Loser's Biggest Losers Share Diet and Exercise Tips | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/24/2007
In the Season 4 finale of The Biggest Loser, 18 contestants lost a staggering combined total of 2,207 pounds, Jillian Michaels' underdog Black Team dominated, and identical twins Bill and Jim Germanakos swept the competition, winning the $250,000 grand prize and $100,000 at-home prize, respectively. Here, five pound-droppers share diet and exercise tips that can help you slim down in 2008. Bill Germanakos$250,000 grand-prize winnerLost 164 pounds"Don't eat anything white. No white bread, no... read more
Biggest Loser Loses Half of Body Weight, Gains $250K | Today's News: Our Take | 12/19/2007
Forty-year-old Bill Germanakos on Tuesday won the latest cycle of NBC's The Biggest Loser and snagged the $250,000 prize, having lost 164 pounds and 49 percent of his original weight to get there. Bill bested his three teammates, Isabeau, Hollie and Julie, even as the odds that a woman would win Loser for the first time ever worked against him.As if that wasn't enough celebration, Bill's twin/fellow contestant Jim lost 186 pounds and won $100K, having fared the best of the eliminated players.... read more
Episode 15: Season Finale Recap | The Biggest Loser | 12/19/2007
Congratulations Bill! Congratulations Jim! What a proud day for the Germanakos family. First they were the first twins in Biggest Loser history, then they were both rejected from the Red and Blue Teams. And then months later, they won it all: Bill, the Biggest Loser and winner of a quarter million dollars, and Jim, the Biggest Loser out of the eliminated 14 players and winner of $100,000. You know the show's producers must be drooling over the twins winning this game and how they are going to... read more
Episode 14 Recap | The Biggest Loser | 12/12/2007
Let's hear it for the Black Team! Congratulations to Bill, Julie, Hollie and Isabeau. They've each worked tremendously hard and overcome so much to get here. It's pretty satisfying watching these four make it to the finale because they are what The Biggest Loser is all about. Jillian certainly has a lot to be proud of, she really helped change these people's lives. Not to say that Bob and Kim didn't because they certainly kick butt in their own ways. But Jillian kept that Black Team alive and... read more
NBC Strikes Back with "More Original Programming Than 1Q 2007" | Today's News: Our Take | 12/6/2007
NBC has at long last unveiled its own "strike schedule," and there's little to be surprised by here, as it has been leaked out in drips and drabs over recent weeks. Of note, NBC touts the slate as offering "significantly more hours of original programming than was ever the case in the first quarter of 2007."The highlights:• As of Jan. 1, The Biggest Loser returns with new two-hour blocks, followed by SVU.• Celebrity Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9 starting Jan. 3; as of Feb. 7,... read more
Episode 13 Recap | The Biggest Loser | 12/6/2007
And then there were five! Who would have thought 13 weeks ago when the season began and all those people who weren't picked for the Blue or Red teams would end up holding the majority in the end. With Bryan's exit last week and Nicole's this week, Neil is the only non-Black team member left and it's pretty obvious he'll be the next to go if he falls below the yellow line. Luckily for Neil he's a weight-losing machine and will probably be ok next week. But I'm really sick of his "I know I'm a... read more

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Premise: Popular reality fare about overweight people competing on two teams, each with a trainer. `The biggest [weight] loser' (through diet and exercise, and without surgery), says host Caroline Rhea, gains `a new body, a new life and $250,000.' At the end of each episode, there's a weigh-in. Whichever group loses fewer pounds must shed one of its own players. In the second season, men (the blue team) and women (the red team) competed against each other.

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