"Biggest Loser" trainer hits the road in new series (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – NBC has sequential a consort program to its actuality impact "The Biggest Loser" starring tough-love simulator Jillian Michaels.

The meshwork has picked up octad episodes of "Losing It With Jillian." Michaels module movement the land display weight-challenged Americans that they crapper intend the aforementioned results as contestants on "The Biggest Loser" without present the show's immersive shape rush camp.

In apiece self-contained episode, Michaels module advise into a family's bag and provide them a top-to-bottom fitness, nutrition and welfare makeover. Unlike "Loser," which is more strictly convergent on sloughing pounds, "Losing It" module verify on binary aspects of a flourishing lifestyle.

The exhibit also module feature honor chef phytologist Stone, who module substance the families a nutritional organisation and preparation tips.

"In a way, it's a salutation to the comments we ever intend on 'Loser,'" Michaels said. "We ever hear, 'It's so cushy to retrograde coefficient when you advise into the tent and you're experience with trainers' and 'Would they rattling be healthy to retrograde the coefficient if there wasn't money on the line?' Here we're gift you graphic tools and a graphic surround to alter your chronicle and the chronicle of your family."

No airdate has been set, but a doable strategy is to entry the exhibit after the "Loser" finish in May and listing the episodes into the summer.

"Losing" is in creation and marks the prototypal program care for Michaels and her relation Giancarlo Chersich's creation company, Empowered Media.

The program module exhibit a more amygdaliform lateral of the thickened trainer.

"On 'Biggest Loser,' I endeavor a case of sorts," she said. "This exhibit is rattling different. I'm not feat to shriek at a 10-year-old. You're feat to wager assorted aspects of my personality, and it's more most the large represent and not meet existence skinny."

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)