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Biggest Loser will not be stripped

Season six of TEN's Reality series will undergo a programming change with a tighter, more compact season.

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TEN is pumped about its newest version of The Biggest Loser: Families, being produced by Shine Australia. The network is delighted with the episodes that have been delivered so far.

Hosted once more by Hayley Lewis, the series is no longer under the watch of FremantleMedia Australia (although Shine execs are former Freo execs).

Promotions on air feature the four families that will comprise the series this year, which is due to launch shortly.

TV Tonight understands as part of the changes for the sixth season the Reality series will no longer be stripped five nights a week. Look out for a tighter, more compact season this year -and it’s probably high time too.

TEN’s network schedule now has several strong titles to take the place of the show, which was stripped at 7:30pm last year.

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  2. @ Jessica – 2 hours per week? no thank you. I much prefer my daily shows and get really annoyed when they schedule these ridiculously long episodes.

    It also takes up like a whole evenings block and people have short attention spans these days.

    Most of their shows only go for 30 minutes as well.

    I really dislike the US one per week version – way too much editing has to go into the show then.

  3. I will miss having something to watch every night, although I do think there was may too much repitition (ie. showing the same 2 mins of footage before the ad break, and then again after the ad break) which was getting a bit annoying.

    I just hope they don’t try and cram it into one show per week. I liked the 5 nights per week format… mostly…

  4. Cou;dn’t they just have one 2 hour show a week, that way they actually have Variety, it really is frustrating giving the same bland show six 1 hour shows a week, and then airring a special episode 4 of those 6 nights a week, on top of the already mundane first six shows, seems like a waste of timeslots seeing as TEN has never been able to hold down a reality show that finishes on time, or hell, even within 5 minutes of the scheduled time.

  7. Yep, stripping is a programming terminology that means basically serialised across the week, rather than a weekly episode or two.

    The problem I have with stripping of reality programs is that it inevitably leads to the extremely annoying recaps after each commercial break.
    When they say a “tighter, more compact” season, I hope they are referring to eliminating this tedious practice.

    I think Biggest Loser has another season in it, at least, but I must admit that I like the way that Ten dropped Idol and SYTYCD so easily, unlike the way they let Big Bother die a painful death.

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