Posts Tagged ‘reality TV’

Learning from 18 Seasons of Exploitation on the Biggest Loser

August 26, 2025 — In the top ranks of the most watched shows on Netflix now is a documentary describing 18 seasons of exploitation on The Biggest Loser. For the folks who ran the original show, it generated hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in revenue. For the folks who opened themselves up to exploitation on the […]

Reaching Out with Insults: Bad Idea

July 13, 2015 — Could it be that obesity entertainment television is losing favor? Ask the former employee of a production company who was fired for reaching out with insults to the town of Huntington, WV. In fairness, she was arguably just really getting into her job — recruiting people for a reality TV show about people living “fun, […]