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TBS has renewed its rookie series Wipeout and Chad for second seasons, and fellow Turner cable net TruTV is going back for seconds on Fast Foodies. The announcements were made during Turner’s upfront presentation today. Wipeout, the obstacle-course competition series that TBS revived this year, is hosted by John Cena…

The CW, TNT and TBS are set to continue to cross promote each other's originals – the latest example of cross promotion between the corporate sibling. TNT will air the premiere of The CW's Kung Fu a few days after its premiere on the youth-skewing broadcast network, while The CW will run an encore presentation of TBS'…

UPDATE: The death of a contestant on reality obstacle show Wipeout has been attributed to coronary artery blockages. 38-year-old Michael Paredes died from a heart attack which was brought on by coronary artery disease according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. TMZ reported the autopsy findings from the Los Angeles…

John Cena (Fast & Furious 9, The Suicide Squad) and Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Girl Code) have been tapped to host TBS’ revival of the outrageous physical competition series Wipeout. Cena and Byer will be joined by Camille Kostek (I Feel Pretty) as the entrenched Host in the Field, covering the contestants' progress…

EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Group and top TV maker Vizio have reached a deal to bring four channels dedicated to Endemol unscripted programming to Vizio’s ad-supported smart-TV platform. Two of the 24-hour channels, streaming on Vizio’s SmartCast platform, center on individual shows: Deal or No Deal and Wipeout. The DIY…

The world's largest obstacle course is coming back to television after TBS ordered a reboot of Wipeout. Endemol Shine North America is producing a 20-episode run for the WarnerMedia-backed cable network. The series ran for seven seasons and 130 episodes on ABC between 2008 and 2014. Created by Matt Kunitz and Scott…

Veteran reality producer Matt Kunitz, creator/executive producer of Wipeout and executive producer of Fear Factor, has signed an overall TV deal with Lionsgate TV. Under the multi-year pact, he will develop and produce unscripted programming through his Pulse Creative banner, working with Pulse development executive…

UPDATE, 10:41 AM: The final numbers are in for Sunday's primetime and there is good news for some and not such good news for others. The good news is for Fox's Utopia and CBS' Big Brother: Both reality shows saw adjustments, with the series premiere of the much-hyped former going up just more than 5% to a 2.0/6 and…

Football is back, and with that NBC returned to the top of the Sunday ratings. The first NFL preseason game, the Hall of Fame face-off between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills, drew a 5.8 rating in the metered-market households. That was down 13% from the comparable game last year, which featured the Dallas…

The new season will feature the franchise’s first “tournament of champions” event. Each episode will showcase 24 contestants competing in the world's largest extreme obstacle course, but for the first time, winners will be brought together at the end of the season to compete for the title of Ultimate Wipeout…

Comedy repeats and badly behaved Big Brother residents put CBS on top in the ratings Thursday night, in the demo and overall crowd. CBS' lineup is still being blacked out by Time Warner Cable in three of the country's top 5 TV markets, and last night its lineup was pre-empted in Boston for an NFL preseason game. NBC…

It was elimination night on Big Brother (2.5/8) on Thursday and the fifth house guest of the reality show's 15th season was evicted. All of which meant a good night for the live one-hour show as Big Brother garnered its biggest viewership of the season with 7.04 million watching. The highest-rated show of Wednesday's…