THE BIGGEST LOSER

The Biggest Loser is a television show broadcast in many countries. It centers on overweight contestants attempting to lose weight to fight for a cash prize. There are different variations of the Biggest Loser around the world. Each country has made its own adaptation to the show; however, the contestants always have the same goal: to lose the highest percentage of weight (or most weight) to become the Biggest Loser.

AMAZING RACE

The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams. Contestants strive to arrive first at "pit stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg (segment). Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including planes, balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, rental cars, trains, buses, boats, and by foot. The clues (cryptic hints) provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member. These challenges are related in some manner to the country wherein they are located or its culture. Teams are progressively eliminated until three are left; at that point, the team that arrives first in the final leg is awarded a grand prize

THE APPRENTICE

The Apprentice is a television franchise which originated in 2004 in the United States. As originally conceived, the show depicted 16 contestants from around the country with various backgrounds competing in an elimination-style competition to become an apprentice to Donald Trump. The winning contestant would have the opportunity to work for Trump as the president of one of his companies for at least one year with an annual salary of $250,000. The Apprentice was developed by Mark Burnett, who successfully brought Survivor to the US. Since its premier, the show has spawned many licensed international versions as well as several imitations.



The Apprentice is a reality television show that originated in the United States- albeit created by an Englishman- on NBC. Billed as "The Ultimate Job Interview," the show depicts a group of 15-18 businessmen and -women competing in an elimination-style competition for a one-year, $250,000 job of running one of real estate magnate Donald Trump's companies. The position starts with an introductory one-year contract with a starting yearly salary of $250,000 USD.

SURVIVOR

Survivor is a reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes. The show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe members until only one final contestant remains and wins the title of "Sole Survivor". The format for Survivor was created in 1992 by British television producer Charlie Parsons.

There are two types of Challenges: Reward Challenges and Immunity Challenges.

In Reward Challenges, the contestants compete for luxuries that are not essential for survival but make their lives easier and/or more enjoyable. Examples of rewards have included food, flint, matches, rain gear, and even short trips away from camp.
In Immunity Challenges, the contestants compete for immunity from an elimination ceremony known as Tribal Council. When the game is in its tribal stage, the tribe that wins immunity does not take part in Tribal Council. Following the merger of the two tribes, the individual who wins immunity cannot have votes cast against him or her.

NEXT TOP MODEL AND PROJECT RUNWAY

America's Next Top Model (often abbreviated as ANTM) is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.

The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the head judge and executive producer of the show.

Each season has from 9–13 episodes and starts with 10-14 contestants. Each episode, one contestant is eliminated, though in rare cases a double elimination or no elimination was given by consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the season (usually after the first or second elimination in the finals), and a trip to an international destination is scheduled at about two-thirds of the way through the season (usually with five or six contestants
remaining).



Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are usually restricted in time, materials and theme. Their designs are judged, and one or more designers are eliminated each week.



The designers are given a budgeted stipend to select and purchase fabric and notions, and then provided a limited amount of time to finish their designs (the shortest being 5 hours and the longest being to two or three days, with the exception of fashion week when they are given 12 weeks). Often, the designers work independently, although on some challenges, contestants must work in teams or as a single collective group. Once the deadline is reached, the designers must dress their models and select their hair, make-up, and accessories. Each model walks down the runway, and the garment the contestant made is rated by a panel of judges, who score each look in several categories from 0 to 5, and often provide personal annotations and comments regarding the presented designs. The judges then interview the six remaining designers who garnered the highest and the lowest scores (usually a top 3 and a bottom 3), and share their opinions while listening to the designers' defense of their outfits, then confer as a group in private. The panel then announces the winning and losing designers based on their scores and other considerations. Typically, the winner receives immunity for the next challenge, and therefore cannot be eliminated. As the season progresses, immunity is disregarded during later challenges to prevent the designers from getting an easy pass to make it into the final round. Other incentives given to the contestants aside from winning immunity include: The winning garment may be featured in print media, integrated into a limited edition look for a particular clothing brand, or sold at an online fashion store (e.g., BlueFly.com beginning in Season 4 onwards). Generally, the loser of each challenge is eliminated from the competition, with host supermodel Heidi Klum giving him or her a double air kiss on the runway and wishing the eliminated designer her catchphrase, Auf Wiedersehen, before they depart. Thus, elimination from the show is sometimes called "being auf'd"--a play on words as it can be interpreted as offed.

Big Brother

Big Brother is a reality television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the house. The idea for the show is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch production house of John de Mol Produkties (an independent part of Endemol) on 4 September 1997. The first Big Brother broadcast was in the Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel. It was picked up by Brazil, Germany, Portugal, USA, UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy the following year and became a world-wide sensation. Since then it has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 countries. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopia in which Big Brother can always spy on the inhabitants of the dictatorship he heads through their television sets, with the slogan "Big Brother is watching you".


Although each country has made its own adaptations and changes to the format, the general concept has stayed the same: "Housemates" or "Houseguests" are confined to a specially designed house where their every action is recorded by cameras and microphones at all times and they are not permitted any contact with the outside world.

In most versions, at regular intervals (normally once weekly, as introduced in the UK version, although in most early series it was every two weeks), the housemates are invited to vote to have one of a number of nominated housemates evicted from the house. In some cases two housemates may be evicted simultaneously (a "double eviction"), or rarely, no housemates will be removed for that week. At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and (in some editions) a house.

From a sociological and demographic perspective, this format allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with. Indeed, the format is ideally suited to such analysis because the viewer is afforded the opportunity to see how a person reacts on the outside through the constant recording of their actions and also what they feel on the inside through the Diary Room/Confession Room. The results can range from violent or angry confrontations to genuine and tender connections (often including romantic interludes), providing entertainment to the public.

Hell's Kitchen and Top Chef

In here let me discussed both HELL'S KITCHEN AND TOP CHEF formats.. If Come dine with me features amateur cook, in the mentioned series, they're all educated and experienced CHEFs..


The format of the program is similar to the United Kingdom version, with a red team and a blue team competing in various cooking challenges for most of the season; once the number of remaining contestants is reduced to five (or six in seasons 4-8), the two teams combine to become a single black team and compete individually.

Each episode begins with a team or individual challenge; the winning chef or team may get a reward, while the losing team or players are required to perform some form of manual labor, usually consisting of kitchen duty in preparation for the dinner service but may also be cleaning the dormitories or decorating the restaurant for a particular event. It may also take the form of "punishment fitting the crime," meaning preparing the same foodstuffs that were used in the challenge for a dinner service. This punishment sometimes includes a lunch consisting of less palatable parts of those foodstuffs, such as those of bovines.



Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode.


In the Quickfire Challenge, each chef is asked to cook a dish with certain requirements (for example, using specific ingredients or to inspire a certain taste) or participate in a culinary-related challenge (for example, a mise en place relay or a taste test). They are usually given an hour or less to complete these tasks. A guest judge selects one or more chefs as the best in the challenge. Early in the season the winning chef(s) are granted immunity from the following Elimination Challenge. As the number of contestants dwindle no one receives immunity and instead the winner gets another "reward" (such as being team captain for a team challenge).

In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs have to prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements. Many of these are individual challenges and may require several courses, although some instances require teams to complete the challenge. Teams may be selected by the remaining contestants among themselves, but more often are selected by the random process of "drawing knives" from a butcher's block, with the team identification revealed on the blade of the knife. The chefs may have from a few hours to a few days to complete this challenge. Ingredients for Elimination Challenges are generally limited to what is present in the "Top Chef" pantry and what the chefs purchase at a food store, with a possibly limited budget. However, certain challenges may provide specific ingredients or limit the type or number of ingredients that can be used, while others require non-traditional methods of obtaining ingredients (such as asking people door-to-door). After shopping, the contestants will cook for four judges, usually including at least one guest judge. In most cases, the contestants cook for the four judges and a group of guests or customers (for example, the cowboys in Colorado). The judges and the guests sample the food and rate the individuals or teams.

come dine with me

Come Dine With Me is a Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, first broadcast in January 2005. The show has either four or five amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize.

Each dining host will be rated or JUDGED by all the guest from 1 to 10.. whoever gets to be entertained with a perfect dinner party will of course gets a highest judgement and only one shall win..

I wonder if this is the same when the judgement day comes.. WE all know we are not made for this earth.. so when judgement comes when we die or if we get the chance to witness the second coming of Christ.. There's only one who gets to JUDGE you by the way you have lived your life on this earth... Jesus always remind us there is no way to get to the 'PRIZE' of having an eternal life but only THRU JESUS CHRIST..

However as far as my learnings about the GRACIOUS LOVE OF GOD.. Judgement is such a crucial word to use.. especially if you mention it to unbelievers.. they will tend to see GOD as a PUNISHER.. and not a LOVER OF YOUR SOUL.. So i need to rephrase it by saying..

JESUS DOESNT LOOK AT THE DINING PREPARATIONS AND ALL.. BUT IN YOUR HEART.. HE LOVES YOU BEFORE YOU LOOK AT HIM AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR HIM.. HE ALREADY TREATED YOU FINELY WITH BLESSINGS, BEFORE YOU PREPARE A GIFT FOR HIM.. HE DIDNT COME ON THIS EARTH TO SEE HOW GOOD YOU ARE IN COOKING, BUT HE CAME BECAUSE YOU ARE A BAD COOK, BAD HOST AND A BAD SPEAKER.. HE CAME TO REDEEM AND CARRY OUT THE BURDENS OF ALL YOUR PREPARATIONS..

However, there is something that we should know... OUR RESPONSE... The series, come dine with me, also shows how bitterness of another person to see an enviousness, covetousness and jealousy once the contestants feels that another is BETTER than what he prepared..

NOTHING IN THIS WORLD SEEMS TO LAST LONGER.. or EVER BE SATISFYING TO US... so WHEN JESUS REDEEM US AND SAVED US FROM ALL THE BURDENS OF BEING A BAD HOST OF A PARTY (our lives), WE TEND TO LOOK AT OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES AND GET JEALOUS WHY HE GETS MORE PREPARATIONS THAN OURS.. ARGH.. WHY JESUS HAD MORE FOOD IN PLACED THAN WHAT I HAVE IN MY TABLE.. WHY JESUS HAD EVEN FLOWERS AND ALL THOSE SORTS PREPARED FOR HIM/HER THAN WHAT HE DID TO MINE.. OR WHY HE GIVES MORE TO ME THAN OTHERS.. ARGH.. such a real deceiver i guess.. however, thats easy to understand for me, because we are really sinners (bad cook for that matter).. this is WHY JESUS CAME FOR US BECAUSE GOD KNOWS WHAT WE NEED.. WE JUST NEED TO ACCEPT THAT WHAT WE HAVE ARE MERELY GIFTS THAT ARE INTENDED FOR US AND NOTHING ELSE.. CONTENTMENT IS THE REAL ANSWER AND IF WE TRULY AND DEEPLY HONOR GOD'S WILL IN OUR LIVES, WE WILL KNOW HOW TO ANSWER OUR SINFUL NATURE OF GREED, COVETOUSNESS, ENVIOUSNESS AND OTHERS..

It is only through the loving support of the HOLY SPIRIT that we can truly SEE JESUS' WAYS, TRUTHS AND LIFE.. oNLY through HIM you will then see the beauty of HIS DINING PREPARATIONS on your table..

let's look at the series and relate some more.. :-)

top 10 choices of reality tv show

10. Come dine with me
9. Hell's kitchen
8. Top chef
7. Big brother
6. Next top model
5. project runway
4. the apprentice
3. Survivor
2. Amazing race
1. Biggest loser

Each shows has it own drama episodes bec it speaks about personal emotions, aspirations and motivation to win the top prizes.. they say its scripted but i would still feel each person's drama..

I've watched and seriously followed most of their seasons..

So as I followed each persons struggle to win the top placer, I realized if I can relate this story to winning our greatest prize of all, eternal life w jesus christ..

Do you know why I worship God?

reality series for the month of NOVEMBER..

I've been a fan of TV SHOWS from love story to action thriller.. think i got this from my mom who, since i was young, was a fan of KNOTS LANDING, DYNASTY, even MURDER SHE WROTE series..

Nowadays, reality shows has been the in-thing amongst the tv shows that's ongoing either in my hometown manila philippines, or in england (where it all began started from the BIG BROTHER series), or in america (where most of the shows are being sold worldwide)..

For the month of NOVEMBER, i want to relate my being a faith discipler to my favorite reality shows.. It just popped into my mind because reality shows are really about LIFE, FRUSTRATIONS, ANGER, LOVE AND SUCCESS... and I thought that this will be a great topic to create a blog from these series..

oh i happened to find this image from google where the SHEEPS are watching BIG BROTHER.. amazing is it? maybe im being led to do this blog.. lol... so here it goes..