The Biggest Loser: Season 3
The biggest winner is "The Biggest Loser" in Season 3 of this compelling weight-loss reality competition series in which two celebrity fitness trainers, Bob Harper and newbie Kim Lyons, join with top health experts to help 14 overweight contestants transform their bodies, health and ultimately, their lives..
Caroline Rhea ("Sabrina, The Teenage Witch") hosts the unscripted, one-hour series in which competing teams follow comprehensive diet and exercise plans to undergo radical physical makeovers.
In this season, fifty overweight contestants, one from each of the fifty US states, arrive at the ranch. Right away, the group is narrowed down to 14 when the trainers each select seven competitors for their teams. Unique physical challenges, surprising alliances and irresistible temptations make the competition tough for the contestants, who ultimately have to decide which player gets eliminated each week.
Meanwhile, the 36 contestants sent home in the Episode 1 compete in a separate at-home weight loss competition. The two people with the greatest percentage of total weight loss return to the ranch late in the season to compete as a third team, the Gray team.
In the end, "The Biggest Loser" becomes the biggest winner, walking away with a healthier body - and $250,000 and $50,000 to the at-home player with the greatest amount of weight lost.
The series has become a worldwide hit airing in over 90 countries and produced in 25 countries. It has produced a New York Times best-selling book series with four titles currently and a fifth book slated to hit stands in March 2008. The show also has two #1 selling fitness DVDs as well as a burgeoning online lifestyle club www.thebiggestloserclub.com.