The Biggest Loser News
August 15, 2006
After two weeks of on-air promotions that teased that this fall's The Biggest Loser 3 would feature fifty competitors, NBC has come clean and acknowledged that only fourteen of the fifty "contestants" (probably more accurately termed semifinalists) will make it past an initial fitness and nutrition boot camp and immediately move on to competing in the show's traditional The Biggest Loser Ranch competition.
July 21, 2006
NBC has announced that the third edition of its The Biggest Loser reality weight loss competition will debut on Wednesday, September 20 at 8PM ET/PT with a special two-hour premiere.
June 27, 2006
NBC has announced that it has begun casting for the fourth season of The Biggest Loser, its popular reality weight loss show.
- May 26, 2006
Less than two weeks after unveiling its Fall 2006 schedule, NBC -- candidly admitting that it is reacting to the subsequent fall schedules released by ABC, CBS, and Fox -- has released an "adjusted" 2006-2007 primetime program schedule that shuffles every weeknight and moves the network's The Biggest Loser reality series into the Wednesdays 9PM ET/PT time period opposite ABC's Lost.
- May 15, 2006
After two years that saw its initial edition debut as late fall replacement programming and its second edition originally scheduled to premiere as late summer programming, NBC has finally revealed an initial fall schedule that includes The Biggest Loser.
May 12, 2006
NBC has announced that The Biggest Loser will have a new trainer this fall, with Kim Lyons replacing Jillian Michaels on the upcoming third edition of the reality weight loss competition show.
March 28, 2006
The winner and second runner-up of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" weight loss competition are getting married.
February 13, 2006
NBC has announced that former The Biggest Loser 2 contestants and subsequent real-life couple Matt Hoover and Suzy Preston will make a special guest appearance on Passions, the network's daytime soap.
- January 26, 2006
Nearly 1,000 people showed up at a San Diego restaurant for a Thursday casting call for NBC's "The Biggest Loser" that never happened.
- January 16, 2006
"For Richer, For Poorer, In Thinness And In Health," our episode summary for the third episode of NBC's The Biggest Loser Special Edition series, written by volsfan, is now available.