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« Big Brother 13 Recap: One Shot At Redemption | Home August 11, 2011 08:04 PM by Megan Thompson Tonight on ABC six teams are left to battle it out on Expedition Impossible. The Gypsies have dominated this game so far, will they be able to keep up their pace? Keep reading to find out if your favorite team survives another expedition. Team No Limits learns that Ike’s ankle is not broken, but badly injured.  Injured enough that he needs a cast, but he refuses to give up on the race.  The Expedition Begins: It’s a grueling two day journey ahead for the teams.  As usual, the Gypsies are first to leave on the race.  The remaining teams are released in the order they placed in the last race.  It’s time to repel down the side of a cliff to reach the first clue.  Natalie from team California Girls bangs her knee pretty badly on the way down.  The Football players quickly repel down the mountain and are in second place behind the Gypsies.  The California Girls are held up by Christina at th...

Big Brother 13 started strong, with ratings that were higher than last summer’s debut, but while the show continues to win its timeslot during the slow summer months, about 1 million viewers have fled the show, perhaps to avoid hearing Rachel’s laugh. But the show easily beat Mark Burnett’s Expedition Impossible , which hit a series low in its ratings Thursday. While 7.71 million viewers watched Big Brother’s July 7 debut, an a 5 percent increase from last summer’s debut, only 6.73 million watched Cassi’s exit Thursday night, according to a CBS press release , which notes that “was the night’s top program in viewers and key demographics, posting across-the-board increases from last week.” That was down from 7.02 million people on Wednesday, but up from the previous live episode, which only had 6.48 million viewers . Again, though, the show keeps winning its timeslot, even though there isn’t much competition in the summer. While the show has a hard-core online audience, the broadcast...

There were two possibilities for ABC’s Expedition Impossible , the Mark Burnett-produced adventure race which debuted last night on ABC. The first was that it’d be a game-changing new show, which is what I thought it could be when it was announced . The second was that it’d be an Amazing Race knock-off that either improved on the CBS series or was a pale imitation. After one episode, Expedition Impossible is decidedly the second, but it’s both an improvement and a pale imitation at the same time. It shares a lot of its DNA with Amazing Race. There was a lot that used template directly, with only minor changes (stages instead of legs, “You are the winners of stage one” instead of “You are the first team to arrive”) that just highlighted the similarities. Burnett would like to insist that “this isn’t The Amazing Race,” but it owes a lot to that series. Still, it’s worth noting that The Amazing Race followed and clearly borrowed from both Mark Burnett’s adventure race series Eco Challe...

ABC has announced a new Mark Burnett-produced competition series that will air next summer, and it sounds like a combination of The Amazing Race, Survivor, and The Mole, and thus sounds awesome. It’s also great to see a network embrace a non-studio series, and The Bachelor vacations don’t count. On Expedition Impossible , “teams of three will solve problems while racing across deserts, over mountains and through rivers,” according to ABC, which calls this “the next evolution in high adventure and human drama.” There’s no information about the prize, just that the race will involve 10 legs, and be filmed in April. The series is now casting “dynamic, competitive, and energetic teams.” The series is also executive produced by Lisa Hennessy, who has executive produced Great American Road Trip , The Contender, Pirate Master , and Rock Star . Update: As a commenter pointed out, this show sounds nearly identical to Treasure Hunters , the 2006 NBC series produced by Magical Elves that follow...