The Biggest Loser

By Andy Dehnart Another weight-loss show is coming from the people involved with The Biggest Loser: 3Ball Productions, which produces the show, is creating a weight-loss series for ABC featuring morbidly obese people. Exclusive: ABC Developing Mega-Weight Loss Reality Show [The Wrap]

By Andy Dehnart On last night's episode of The Biggest Loser 8, watching the long, drawn-out weigh in was less necessary than usual, because the monitor that showed the two teams' percentage of weight loss revealed the final totals at the very start of the weigh in.

By Andy Dehnart Jillian Michaels is getting her own NBC series, but will stay on as a trainer for The Biggest Loser. Each of eight episodes of the new show, Losing it with Jillian, will follow Jillian as she actually moves in with a family and helps them lose weight and otherwise change their lives for a week.

By Andy Dehnart Also out today: A Biggest Loser Wii game that includes "a complete workout containing over 88 exercises, including upper and lower body, core, cardio and yoga" and "workout customization, a daily calendar for day planning and 50 healthy recipes from The Biggest Loser Cookbook."

By Andy Dehnart If you're watching NCIS instead of Shark Tank [ABC, 8 p.m.], give the reality series a shot: it's great TV, and better than its competing reality series The Biggest Loser and Hell's Kitchen, although it was stupid of ABC to counter-schedule it like that. Also, as a bonus, there's no Mark Harmo...

By Andy Dehnart In the final segment of last night's episode of "The Biggest Loser," which updated viewers on the status of an eliminated contestant, the former contestant was shown running a marathon in his home state of Arizona. NBC today learned that the contestant did not, in fact, run the entire mara...

By Andy Dehnart When The Biggest Loser 4 goes into production this spring, it will have a new host. Caroline Rhea, the host for the show's first three seasons, has been replaced by Alison Sweeney, best known for her role on Days of Our Lives. ...