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Listen Up! The Biggest Loser Club Online Debuts Exclusive Audio Blog Featuring Show's Eliminated Contestants, Trainers; Audio Blog Launches Following Tonight's Season 3 Premiere of NBC's Hit Show.


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 reality show The Biggest Loser can now get the inside story behind every week's episode through a new audio blog See audioblog.  on BiggestLoserClub.com. Every Thursday, The Biggest Loser trainers Bob Harper and Kim Lyons will join the previous night's eliminated contestant in an exclusive post-show discussion for members of BiggestLoserClub.com.

The opening audio blog, available on Thursday, September 22, features the show's first eliminated contestant who will join trainer Kim Lyons to recap the exciting two-hour season premiere and explain what happens on one of the most trying days at the ranch. The contestant will also share their story about the challenges of maintaining a healthy weight-loss routine amid a busy schedule at home and finding time to exercise and cook healthy meals. They'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what's kept them motivated since departing the show and returning to the challenges at home.

The audio blog is available only to members of BiggestLoserClub.com, every Thursday following the broadcast of The Biggest Loser. The two-hour season premiere of The Biggest Loser airs tonight at 8/7c on NBC.

About "The Biggest Loser"

The first reality series in which everybody "loses," "The Biggest Loser," hosted by Caroline Rhea ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch"), challenges and encourages overweight participants to undergo physical makeovers, without any kind of surgery, in a safe and recommended manner through comprehensive diet and exercise as they compete for a grand prize of $250,000. The series has become a worldwide hit, airing in over 65 territories and 20 countries. It has also produced a New York Times best-selling book, the #1 selling fitness DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
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 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

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, and a burgeoning online lifestyle club www.biggestloserclub.com

"The Biggest Loser" is a production of Reveille LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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, 25/7 Productions and 3 Ball Productions. Ben Silverman (NBC's "The Office," "Ugly Betty"), Dave Broome ("Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope," "StarTomorrow"), JD Roth ("Unanimous," "Beauty and the Geek For the UK version of the show, see .

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"), Todd A. Nelson ("Unanimous," "Beauty and the Geek") and Mark Koops ("Blow Out," "The Restaurant") are the executive producers.

About The Biggest Loser Club

The Biggest Loser Club (www.biggestloserclub.com) is the companion Web site to the NBC hit reality series The Biggest Loser, launched in September 2005 by NBC, Rodale Inc. and Reveille. The interactive membership program features all the tools needed to succeed, including a customized diet and fitness program designed by the show's medical and nutrition experts, a meal planner, and a shopping list creator.

Members can create a personal online fitness profile, keep a weight-loss journal, obtain access to meal and exercise planners and an expanded database of recipes, and receive a special Biggest Loser Club newsletter with updates and health tips. Participants can get essential peer and professional dietary and fitness support through online discussion boards and by sharing a personal progress journal with other Club members. The show's star professional trainer Bob Harper and cast provide tips, inspiration and motivation.

About Reveille

Reveille is a leading independent production and distribution company focused on exploiting worldwide intellectual property rights through scripted and alternative television formats. Launched in March of 2002 by Ben Silverman, the company produces innovative entertainment programming across all television genres such as the Emmy Award-winning "The Office" (NBC), which has also received two Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (or TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer  Awards; "The Biggest Loser" (NBC); "Ugly Betty" (ABC ABC
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Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
); "House of Boateng" (Sundance Channel); "30 Days" (FX); "Blow Out" (Bravo); "Bound For Glory" (ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ); "Nashville Star" (USA); "Date My Mom Date My Mom is a television dating show airing on the music channel MTV and produced by Shaniqua Productions. An 18-24-year-old male, or gay male/lesbian female, goes on 3 separate dates with 3 moms who try to convince them to pick their son or daughter to date. " (MTV MTV
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); and "The Restaurant" (NBC). Reveille is also the world leader in creating integrated marketing opportunities for leading advertisers while developing alternative financing paradigms. In addition, Reveille's growing library of programming is distributed to more than 150 countries worldwide through subsidiary Reveille International. The company maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York.

About Rodale Inc.

Rodale Inc. is the authoritative source for trusted content in health, fitness and wellness around the world, reaching nearly 40 million people each month. The company publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazines, including Men's Health Men's Health Definition

Men's health is concerned with identifying, preventing, and treating conditions that are most common or specific to men.
, Prevention, Women's Health Women's Health Definition

Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues.
, Runner's World, Best Life, Bicycling, Backpacker, Mountain Bike and Organic Gardening, and is also the largest independent book publisher in America with a collection of international titles, including The South Beach Diet and The Abs Diet franchises, and most recently Al Gore's New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth. Rodale's broad range of media platforms includes magazines, books, videos and extensive Web sites. The company is also a leader in direct-response marketing and has more than 26 million active customers in its database. www.rodale.com.
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