via James Hibberd/THRFeed.com:
NBC has ordered a companion series to its reality hit “The Biggest Loser” starring tough-love trainer Jillian Michaels. The network has picked up eight episodes of “Losing It With Jillian” from Reveille in association with Empowered Media.
Michaels will travel the country showing weight-challenged Americans that they can get the same results as contestants on “The Biggest Loser” without attending the show’s immersive fitness boot camp.
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Since The Biggest Loser is one of the highest rated shows on NBC, this could work.
This sounds like an 8 episode infomercial for all of Jillian Michaels’ DVDs and books.
The last 5 years at NBC has been an embarrassment of epic proportions. I mean, Lauren Michaels and Jeffrey Zuckkker are living in the 90s. In fact, that’s how to describe the entire NBC network.
They are living in the 90s. It doesn’t take the head of a lunatic fringe movement to figure this out. Does it?
If it’s only eight episodes, then it’s probably just filler to bridge the gap from November to the Olympics, or it’s a summer show.
Nothing to get one’s knickers in a bunch over.
With NBC you’re talking epic bad, let me tell you something…
THey are a bigger disgrace than….
Conan O’brien…… and Jimmy Fallon…… and Jeffrey Zucker…. and
Lauren Michaels…….and…….Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase.
Wait those all work for NBC, except for Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase which showcases Gavin “Mr. Maryln” Rossdale at his finest. What professionalism.
Oh, LORNE Michaels! I couldn’t figure out what calling Jillian Michaels Lauren could mean.
Here’s what NBC should do…..Listen up Jeff….
8:00: Play Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase (Mon-Fri)
9:00: Elton John’s entire 1980′s song catalogue
10:00: Madonna’s Take a Bow over and over again.
11:30 Elton John’s late 70s song catalogue
12:30 Fever Pitch (might classify as torture)
1:30 Every Mad Men scene featuring Betty Draper
I forgot, on Razorblade Suitcase show the picture of Rossdale and Maryln holding hands.
I’m SO SICK OF ‘REALITY SHOWS’ I’m thinking of filming my suicide!!
Really, guys.
“This sounds like an 8 episode infomercial for all of Jillian Michaels’ DVDs and books.”
and gladware! can’t have the biggest loser without the tupperware.
i am sure i will run to a scriped Drama that night
Now why don’t the make “The fastest fatty” – where the goal is to eat yourself to death – the family of the deceased will get 5 million.
Gotta be ratings in that!
NBC could run eight episodes of Chuck during that period but I don’t think Chuck’s fans would be very happy about it.
LOL@Kermonk. The Fastet Fatty sounds like soemthing that NBC would never trie to attempt. The ratings would actually be great, but the plot too controversial for tv. This idea coul work in Europe
Geez, where and when will this air. NBC seems to have too many midseason series.
Dan looking at how NBC’s season is panning out I don’t think its possible for them to have too many mid season replacements, although I don’t think this is going to be a mid season show. To me this reads like a summer ‘replacement’ for Biggest Loser and in that regard I think it works relatively well. Its also hard to fault them creating a spin-off from one of their only hits.
And NBC wonders why it’s in fourth place. Tell you what NBC, when you’re done cleaning up Ben Silverman and Jeffrey Zucker’s mess, give me a call. I’ve got some great full developed treatments for SCRIPTED programing that can save your shitty network.
Why are people so ready to condemn a spin-off from arguably NBC’s biggest hit? And lets remember that Biggest Loser is pretty much the only show they have on the schedule that would actually be a hit on every other network as well. You think Fox wouldn’t launch an American Idol spin-off if they could develop one that made sense? And how many spin-off’s have CBS launched over the years? NBC, like every other network is just trying to get the most out of arguably their biggest hitter.
It should also be pointed out that just about every network revival/growth of recent memory has been built on the back of unscripted content and not scripted content.
NBC deserves to be in the dire straits its in.