“Biggest Loser” Video Game In The Works
By RabbitEars
Software company THQ Inc. is developing a video game based on NBC’s hit series The Biggest Loser. It will be available Oct. 19, exclusively for Wii and Nintendo DS. The show’s trainers, Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels, will be featured in the game, in which players will be led through a series of comprehensive workouts and given nutrition goals to help them transform their lives through diet and exercise. Show host Alison Sweeney will also be included in the game.
d be quite as awe-inspiring. While Planet Earth remains on a level of its own, this series comes very close to it and is still the best nature show — or any show period — you’re likely to see this year. And it is unique in that each of its six episodes focuses on one particular event, in one location, in the natural world, where Planet Earth, as its title indicates, globe-trotted all across the world in each episode. The focus on individual events here lends a bit of intimacy to the epic landscapes as we get to meet particular creatures and how they respond to events ranging from floods and ice melts to huge salmon runs and migrations.
The NHL has plenty of TV issues they need to deal with. Maybe they should start with this one: Set a date for the Stanley Cup Finals and stick to it. It’s not hard. We’ve known for months that the NBA Finals begin June 4, and they have the same playoff format as the NHL. It’s likely that the NHL fears getting hammered in the ratings by the NBA, and they want to get in as many games as possible before the NBA Finals tip off.
Beavis and Butt-Head has been off the air for more than a decade, but its influence can still be seen in creator Mike Judge’s work. For King of the Hill, he simply fine-tuned the redneck accent of the slacker duo’s crotchety neighbor, Mr. Anderson, and gave us Hank Hill. For his new project, The Goode Family, it’s hard to listen to the dulcet tones of main character Gerald Goode and not hear hippie New Age teacher Mr. Van Driessen.
If I could pick one thing everyone should have in their lives on a regular basis, near the top would be a bit of surrealism. If I could pick a second, it might as well be puppets. (Note that the two concepts rather complement one another.) Well, just in time for summer, IFC brings both your way in a new Internet transplant of sorts, Food Party, premiering June 9 as part of the IFC Automat.
The thrust of Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience is summed up in an exchange between high-priced call girl Chelsea and a reporter interested in her life. He is fascinated by how her clients view her, and how she views them. Do they just want the carnal pleasures, or do they want something deeper? Do they want to know the real you, he asks? If they did, Chelsea says, they wouldn’t be paying me.