The Biggest...Ummm...No...The Best...Ummm...Hmmm
So there's this show on NBC on Tuesday Nights called The Biggest Loser. The premise is that you have some people who are admittedly overweight and they want help in losing that weight and becoming healthier people. They have trainers. They have nutritionists. They have these challenges where they compete in teams against each other for prizes. They have a weekly weigh-in (based on percentages so everybody's competing on a more level field). They have temptations where they can win big or have to eat pizza/chocolate. There are even prizes if you get voted off where you can win by continuing to lose weight once you get home.
What it comes down to, though, is that these folks get to work out roughly six hours a day in the best of conditions. It shows, too. Those "before & after" photos are encouraging. Some contestants have safely and correctly dropped 25% of their body weight or more.
But what I'm wondering about today is what kind of show could we put on television if we had that amount of concerted effort into a spiritual life. So, help me out here, patrons...
...where should the show be filmed and why?
...would there be "trainers" and if so, what would they do? Who would they be?
...what would the challenges be?
...what would the temptations be?
...who else should come alongside on the weekly deals (like on this show they have some famous chef come and show them how to cook)?
...how do you measure winners? How do folks stay on or get voted off?
I (kinda sorta maybe) think there's a market for something like this. I mean, think about it. You could pose deep questions each and every week and get America talking about their spiritual lives and hitting libraries and such. Frankly, I think there's worse ideas for new shows...
...and, oh yeah, what would we call it?
So there's this show on NBC on Tuesday Nights called The Biggest Loser. The premise is that you have some people who are admittedly overweight and they want help in losing that weight and becoming healthier people. They have trainers. They have nutritionists. They have these challenges where they compete in teams against each other for prizes. They have a weekly weigh-in (based on percentages so everybody's competing on a more level field). They have temptations where they can win big or have to eat pizza/chocolate. There are even prizes if you get voted off where you can win by continuing to lose weight once you get home.
What it comes down to, though, is that these folks get to work out roughly six hours a day in the best of conditions. It shows, too. Those "before & after" photos are encouraging. Some contestants have safely and correctly dropped 25% of their body weight or more.
But what I'm wondering about today is what kind of show could we put on television if we had that amount of concerted effort into a spiritual life. So, help me out here, patrons...
...where should the show be filmed and why?
...would there be "trainers" and if so, what would they do? Who would they be?
...what would the challenges be?
...what would the temptations be?
...who else should come alongside on the weekly deals (like on this show they have some famous chef come and show them how to cook)?
...how do you measure winners? How do folks stay on or get voted off?
I (kinda sorta maybe) think there's a market for something like this. I mean, think about it. You could pose deep questions each and every week and get America talking about their spiritual lives and hitting libraries and such. Frankly, I think there's worse ideas for new shows...
...and, oh yeah, what would we call it?
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