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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…

Here's what's happening this summer with CBS' Big Brother: What The Reporters Who Cover Television are saying: This season's Big Brother housemates are the most heinous, tossing out racial slurs like party favors, or we're just paying more attention because it's the Summer of Paula Deen and the George Zimmerman Trial…

ABC has renewed reality series Wipeout for a sixth season when the show will mark its 100th episode. The network didn’t specify whether the obstacle course show will air again in the summer. Jill Wagner will return as co-host after Vanessa Minnillo replaced her in Season 5. Hosting are John Anderson (ESPN's SportsCente…

Thursday was a TV double sixes, at least if you're ABC. Last night the network ran back-to-back new episodes of Wipeout, their obstacle course reality show. The 8 PM (1.5/5) Wipeout was down 6% from last week's 1.6/6 but the 9 PM (1.7/5) was actually up 6% from last week's 8 PM Wipeout broadcast. ABC followed the…

The Duets first-season finale on ABC saw J. Rome crowned the winner. It also saw the singing competition fall 10% from last week to hit a series low. Also on ABC, Wipeout (1.6/5) was down 11% to its season low. Rookie Blue (1.4/4), on the other hand, was up 17% from a week ago. On CBS, Big Brother (2.2/7) fell 15%…