Almost 10 years after The Largest Loser aired its ultimate episode on NBC, solid and crew members are talking out concerning the actuality present’s excessive and lows in a brand new Netflix docuseries.
The streaming service debuted the primary take a look at Match for TV: The Actuality of The Largest Loser on Tuesday, July 22. The three-part sequence, which can premiere on August 15, will take an “inside take a look at the making of the hit actuality TV competitors, exploring the nice, the unhealthy, and the difficult,” per the present’s description.
“That includes interviews with former contestants, trainers, producers, and well being professionals, the documentary examines the present’s strategy to transformation, the assist methods in place, and the distinctive challenges of filming actuality tv,” the logline continues. “The sequence explores how the expertise formed the lives of these concerned with the present lengthy after the cameras stopped rolling and invitations viewers to mirror on the stability between leisure and well-being, and what it really means to pursue lasting change.”
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Within the present’s trailer, Season 8 contestant Tracey Yukich compares being solid on the present to “successful the lottery.” Private coach and host Bob Harper provides that “yelling [and] screaming” on the contestants within the gymnasium made for “good TV” within the eyes of the present’s producers.
Reflecting on the casting course of, govt producer J.D. Roth says within the trailer, “We weren’t searching for individuals who had been chubby and completely satisfied. We had been searching for individuals who had been chubby and sad.”
Whereas some former contestants considered their Largest Loser expertise because the “neatest thing” to occur to them, others had a not-so-nice expertise. “Individuals like making enjoyable of fats individuals,” Season 7 contestant Joelle Gwynn states, to which Harper provides, “And producers love that s**t. They had been like, ‘We would like them to puke. We would like the insanity of all of it.’”
Yukich later claims that her organs “had been actually shutting down” at one level on the present, whereas Gwynn remembers, “I might barely stroll, and I used to be in such ache. And so they mentioned, ‘Simply stroll it off. Simply stroll it off.’”
Harper, for his half, declares within the trailer that he “would by no means put anybody in hurt’s manner.”
No matter contestants’ unfavourable feedback and followers’ criticism about whether or not the present promoted unhealthy habits, govt producer David Broome thinks the sequence in the end did extra good than hurt.
“You inform me one present that’s truly modified individuals’s lives the way in which The Largest Loser has,” he states on the finish of the teaser. “I’d love to listen to it.”
Skye Borgman serves because the present’s director, whereas Michael Gasparro, Andrew Fried, Jordan Wynn, and Lana Barkin function govt producers for Boardwalk Photos.
The Largest Loser ran for 17 seasons on NBC from 2004 to 2016 earlier than transferring to USA Community in 2020. The competitors sequence featured contestants competing to lose probably the most weight with the intention to win a money prize.
Match for TV: The Actuality of The Largest Loser, Docuseries Premiere, Friday, August 15, Netflix