The Biggest Loser features obese people competing to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight.
Als das hübsche, aber reichlich überhebliche Fotomodell Deb Dobson bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommt, findet sie sich vor der Himmelspforte wieder. Doch da sie ihr Leben sinnlos vergeudet hat, will Fred, der Pförtner, sie nicht einlassen. Stattdessen schickt er sie zurück zur Erde – in den Körper der soeben verstorbenen Jane Bingum, die nicht nur eine brillante Anwältin war, sondern leider auch etwas übergewichtig …
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010. The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards. The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction. The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
Im Mittelpunkt steht das Chicagoer Paar Mike Biggs und Molly Flynn. Sie haben Probleme mit ihrem Übergewicht und wollen etwas dagegen tun. Beide besuchen das Treffen der Selbsthilfegruppe für Menschen mit Ess-Störungen Overeaters Anonymous, wo sie sich auch ineinander verlieben.
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four of the cast, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman, went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
Eine fünfköpfige Arbeiterfamilie kämpft in der fiktiven Stadt Lanford, Illinois, mit einem begrenzten Einkommen.
The Slaton sisters averaging over a thousand pounds, have always depended on each other for support. Now in their 30s, Amy wants to have children, but cannot due to her weight, while her elder sister Tammy is near bedridden.
Bogan Pride is an Australian comedy television series which first screened on SBS TV in 2008. The six-part series created by and starring actress, Rebel Wilson, is directed by Peter Templeman and produced by Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon. The series centres around the life of a teenage bogan girl. The series was not renewed for a second season by SBS.
Young people work with their families so that they can all lose weight and improve their health and fitness.
Ronny Brede Aase enjoys his life with hamburgers and beer, but also dreams of a long and good life. So he, despite being fat, decides to make a TV show about health.
A two-part documentary following obese mothers at Leicester Royal Infirmary's high risk maternity unit.
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