NBC to Start ‘Losing It' June 1

Weight-loss show to follow ‘America's Got Talent' on Tuesdays

By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/16/2010 2:27:28 PM

NBC has added the Biggest Loser spin-off Losing it with Jillian to its summer lineup.

The weight-loss program, hosted by Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels, will get the Tuesday at 10 p.m. slot beginning June 1 after America's Got Talent. (Talent will have a two-hour episode on Tuesdays followed by a one-hour results show on Wednesdays).

Parenthood, which now occupies the Tuesday at 10 p.m. slot, will finish its initial 13-episode run on May 25.  NBC has yet to make a decision about that show's fate.

Losing It will have Michaels crisscrossing the country to find families in need of diet and exercise makeover. The show joins a growing field of weight-loss programs -- spurred by the success of The Biggest Loser, which recently wrapped its sixth season.

ABC's entry into the weight-loss-reality milieu comes Sunday (March 21) with the premiere of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, in which the celebrity chef and healthy-food activist attempts to get the residents of Huntington, W.Va. to kick long-standing fat and sugar addictions. 

Food Revolution is from Ryan Seacrest Productions. Losing It is produced by Reveille in association with Empowered Media.