Despite a major change up in trainers and contestants, it seems The Biggest Loser: Transformation is still not resonating with Australian audiences. And now following a disappointing start to the 2017 season, it’s being dropped from its prime-time 7.30pm slot.
“We’re disappointed,” Channel Ten’s program chief Beverley McGarvey told news.com.au this week. “It really hasn’t resonated with audiences the way we had hoped.”
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I've never enjoyed this show.
The shows in the past had an element of "Sideshow Freaks" about them. Morbidly obese people served up as dysfunctional and "disobedient" who not only endured the discomfort & pain of activities their compromised bodies were subjected to, but the disgraceful bullying that came from sanctimonious "trainers" with no medical / psychological knowledge or apparent kindness.
Morbidly obese people don't usually get that way because they're lazy or despicable.............there's often an underlying health issue.
Nobody (in this society anyway ) wants to be fat - so why are they ?
Obesity often happens because people don't (or can't ) MOVE enough to burn up extra calories.
If bona-fide science TV programs are still examining the complexity of the problem, what makes us think that a show like this is the answer ?
People are waking up about the integrity of all kinds of things right now from "weight-loss TV shows & the weight-loss Industry " to "relationship TV shows" and even the political scene in another country.
Cobbling together a TV show about "real-people's problems" has never been more difficult.
I'm honestly sick of people voting each other off. I'd like to watch a show with 12 people who all lose weight and become better people by supporting each other over the 8 weeks and then celebrate at the end. It wouldn't be car-crash drama, but I'm sure there'd be some comedy and there'd definitely be information we can all use. Why watch and care about people who are probably going to leave in an awkward and sad way? In the initial promo videos I thought this was the 'Transformed' bit of the show, but after the first episode explained it was going to be the same, we stopped watching.