The Biggest Loser

There are both an American and Australian version of this disturbing but funny programme. I recently watched both but found the American one more compelling to watch due to the vast sizes of the contestants. The show is shown on Sky and each show lasts around 60 minutes. The show has been around since 2004 aparantly and is now in its eighth series, however this is the first time I have watched it. The show is made by NBC and the show I watched was a family edition that had 2 family members competing on the show as a team there were 8 teams of 2 people. The couple sometimes husband and wife or father and son ect were extremly obese and the object ...  Read the complete review

I first got into this show whilst in New Zealand a couple of years ago where they were showing the US version of the show. I don't really watch a lot of TV but I must say that I am completely hooked on this show. Format It is a reality TV show which started in the US (unsurprisingly given that there is such a high rate of obesity there I guess). Basically a group of hugely obese people are brought together, put in a house and made to eat healthily and excersize in an extreme way. The aim is to lose as much weight as possible - the highest percentage of body weight lost winning the prize - in the US version this is $250,000, in the Aussie ...  Read the complete review

The Biggest Loser is a tv show developed in the USA but which now has versions running in many countries globally. The Biggest Loser takes a group of extremely obese people, and the competition is to loose the most weight. I have mainly seen the American version, where there is $250,000 for the winner, and $100,000 for the person who was sent home who lost the most. Not a tiny sum of money, and you get to help your health as well. Each series there is a different slant. People are chosen for the show, and are often known to one another beforehand ie colleagues, father-daughter, husband-wife and so on. These pairs are little teams, and each week ...  Read the complete review

This programme follows a group of very large people who want to loose weight. They go to a big manor house to be trained and set challenges by 2 very fit coaches. There are 2 teams, and there are various ways to get people to leave either by nomination or sometimes people just leave. The fact is that exercise and good diet makes you thinner, chocolate, crisps and fast food dont. These people have reached the stage where their fitness levels are very low. By introducing a lot of exercise and good diet they loose a lot of weight quite quickly. They then get depressed when the weight loss slows down and this is where the coaches have to come in and ...  Read the complete review

The Biggest Loser is one of the best programmes on TV at the moment, in my honest opinion. The whole concept is not alien to us TV viewers, but the methods they use are. The basic premise is that a group of very overweight people join a show in which the whole aim is to lose weight, hence the title. And boy, do they! The difference between most of them when they start and when they show up at the finale is astounding! Having watched a few episodes of the UK version, I stopped recording it as it differs so much from the US and Australian versions and it's not half as compelling to watch. In the US and Australian series that I've watched, the trainers are ...  Read the complete review