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Love is Blind: France | Official Trailer | Netflix
LOVE IS BLIND: FRANCE, hosted by Teddy Riner and Luthna Plocus, follows 15 women and 15 men divided into pods as they meet, date, and get engaged - sight unseen - in their quest to find and marry their one true love. On Sept. 10, only on Netflix.
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Amazon’s “Beast Games” has wrapped filming on the reality competition series’ second season.
The show, which is hosted by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, will follow an elite group of 200 players as they face off against each other in a series of physical, mental and social challenges for a chance to win the life-changing $5 million prize.
“We gathered the strongest and the smartest people on earth to compete for $5,000,000!,” Donaldson said in an X post on Wednesday. “I’m so excited. Season 1 is 10x better than Season 1.”
The first season of “Beast Games” drew more than 50 million viewers in its first 25 days on Prime Video and reached No. 1 on the streaming service in more than 80 countries. It featured 1,000 players who competed for a prize that ultimately grew to $10 million in cash, making it the biggest reality competition series ever created.
In May, the tech giant revealed during its upfront that the show would return for both a second and third season. On Tuesday, Amazon attributed the series as one of the key drivers of advertiser demand during its upfront negotiations.
In addition to Donaldson, “Beast Games” is co-created by Sean Klitzner, Tyler Conklin and Mack Hopkins. Klitzner and Matt Apps serve as showrunners, as well as executive producers alongside Michael Cruz, Jeff Housenbold, Conklin, Michael Miller, Josh Kulic and Chris Keiper. Conklin will return as the series’ director.
Chapel Hart, the trio comprised of sisters Danica and Devynn Hart, and first cousin Trea Swindle, has announced its separation via a social media post.
“As we each step into new seasons in life, we have decided to press pause on Chapel Hart so we can explore other passions and dreams that have been calling to us individually. This is not a goodbye. It is a celebration of everything we have built and a step toward everything still to come,” shared the band.
Danica Hart will be continuing on her own, while Devynn and Swindle have come together to form their new duo, Magnolia Rising.
The band will honor their remaining live show commitments, which includes a show at Stockbridge Amphitheater in Stockbridge, Georgia this Friday (Aug. 29), and an appearance at Keep It Country Festival this October in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
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Can't wait for the new season this fall.
Jillian Michaels has responded to some of the claims made against her in Netflix’s “Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser,” revealing to NewsNation that she thought “nobody would care” about the docuseries.
Unlike fellow “Biggest Loser” trainer Bob Harper, Michaels did not participate in the “Fit for TV” doc, which explores the behind-the-scenes conditions of the NBC weight-loss competition series and the treatment of its contestants. Consequently, in the days since its premiere on Aug. 15, Michaels has publicly refuted many of the claims made against her.
While speaking with NewsNation’s “On Balance” host Leland Vittert on Thursday night, Michaels was first asked why she believes Netflix chose to make “Fit for TV” nearly 10 years after “The Biggest Loser” originally went off the air in 2016.
“I honest to God don’t know,” Michaels responded. “When I heard about the documentary, I thought nobody would care. I was like, ‘No one’s going to care about this. It’s gonna come, it’s gonna go, moving on.’ So I really don’t have an answer as to why. I know that Netflix was extremely effective in their marketing strategy, like, ‘Jillian is such a ruthless bitch.’”
Michaels went on specifically push back against one of the docuseries’ claims. In the documentary, Harper and Dr. Robert Huizenga, a sports doctor who worked with the “Biggest Loser” contestants, alleged that Michaels was caught in Season 15 of the competition series giving caffeine supplements and caffeine pills to her team members that purportedly violated the show’s rules. Michaels, for her part, said that is an inaccurate assessment of what occurred.
In the same “On Balance” interview, Michaels also addressed the controversy surrounding comments she made on CNN last week defending President Trump’s widely decried, ongoing review of the Smithsonian Institute’s museums.
The comments in question included Michaels’ assertion that Trump is “not whitewashing slavery” and her insistence that “you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery just to one race, which is pretty much what every single [museum] exhibit does.” Her remarks provoked incredulity from both her fellow CNN panelists and many viewers watching at home.
“If you actually watch the entire clip, it’s Julie Roginsky who refers to parts of the MAGA base as racist, makes a Hitler reference again to Trump and then says, ‘Slavery is bad. We should talk about it,’” Michaels recalled, noting that she herself was “fully educated and up to speed on the exhibits that the administration has taken umbrage with in the Smithsonian.”
“With confidence, I turn around and I say, ‘He’s not trying to whitewash slavery,’ and I’m about to list all of these other exhibits … where then Ritchie Torres and Abby Phillip bring it back to slavery again. So we were having two separate conversations at the same time,” Michaels argued.
A game show hosted by Dermot O'Leary has been shelved after just one season.
This Morning host Dermot fronted Silence is Golden for UKTV, with the first series airing in May.
But it has now been confirmed that as things stand, the show will not be returning for a second outing.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, UKTV execs confirmed the fate of that show and Battle in the Box.
They said: "[They are] both fantastic shows and maybe in another universe we might be keeping both of those shows at the moment landing shows at that budget and scale that's not where our heads are at.
"We are really looking to try and do something different so we can bring it back in volume.
"They are great producers and we have absolutely work loved working with both of them."
Silence is Golden saw a studio audience get £250,000 to share between them, all they had to do was not make a sound. This would prove difficult, as comedians including Katherine Ryan and Seann Walsh attempted to make them laugh and bring the prize pot down.
Any time an audience member - who were all mic'ed up - made a noise, the money would go down and if the entertainers brought the prize pot down to zero, they got to give the money to charity.
YouTube creator Mark Rober is adding another platform to his already large media presence.
Rober, a former NASA engineer turned STEM YouTuber, will host a kid-centered competition series on Netflix that’s set to premiere in 2026. Rober’s CrunchLabs company will produce the series alongside Kimmelot, Jimmy Kimmel’s production banner. The streamer has also licensed some of Rober’s YouTube episodes, which will debut on Netflix later this year.
Details of the competition series are scant at the moment, but it will likely feature Rober’s blend of science education with over-the-top experiments like filling a swimming pool with jello.
“I love turning learning into a game, basically hiding the vegetables in the dessert, and now it’s a full-on competition game show,” said Rober. “When you’re having fun, you’re learning without even realizing it. And teaming up with Netflix and Jimmy Kimmel to make this happen? This is gonna be epic.”
Rober has been a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! a number of times and guest hosted the show in July 2022. He also has a large media footprint, with some 70 million subscribers to his YouTube channel and large followings on TikTok and Instagram.
It has been an amazing Awesome August-Con but there's one more you can add to the list here.
Sorry Razor comics, but Eman's World of Geek is the caboose this year. He digs int a lot of comic books and maybe a lot of Transformers stuff too. He can unbox things like this:
Then you know it's time for Livewire! Until next time, play on playas.
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