The competition — which ran for 17 seasons on NBC from 2004 to 2016 and one on USA Network in 2020 — had contestants vying to lose the highest percentage of their body weight for a grand prize. That ...

The controversial competition series launched in 2004, crowning 18 winners (who took home $250,000 each) before its final episode aired in 2020. The show is the subject of the docuseries Fit for TV: ...

Millions of Americans watched for 18 seasons as people pushed their bodies to the limits physically, ate as few calories as possible, and underwent sometimes mortifying challenges to be crowned “The ...

The Biggest Loser, NBC's controversial weight-loss competition, aired for 18 seasons over 16 years. The show put contestants through a 30-week boot camp, awarding $250,000 to whoever lost the most ...

Abby Meyers is a reality TV features writer at Collider. In school, her college majors in creative writing and gender studies prepared her well to watch and write about reality television. She has ...

'The Biggest Loser' aired from 2004 to 2020 and is the subject of Netflix's docuseries 'Fit for TV' Samantha Stutsman is a writer and surveillance editor at PEOPLE. Mitchell Haaseth/NBCU Photo ...

The Biggest Loser finally left the spotlight in 2020, but not after the one-time ratings hit transformed many contestants’ lives in ways NBC wouldn’t want you to know. The competition — which ran for ...

Through extreme dieting and exercise, 18 winners lost weight and took home a $250,000 prize The series is the subject of the docuseries Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, which debuted on ...