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The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its star-studded 2024 lineup, featuring Angelina Jolie, Elton John, Daniel Craig, Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan, and more in a program boasting 39 world premieres and 12 international premieres among its 253 feature, short, series and immersive works.

The festival’s headline gala screenings will showcase a range of high-profile films. The world premiere of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” starring Ronan opens the festival, while Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” closes it.

Other gala screenings include R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s “Elton John: Never Too Late,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan, Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” Edward Berger’s “Conclave” with Ralph Fiennes, Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” Ben Taylor’s “Joy,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” featuring Jolie, Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” starring Amy Adams, Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door...

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s latest documentary feature Endurance about the epic search to find the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sean Baker’s Anora, and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch starring Amy Adams are among the titles that have been announced within the full lineup of the British Film Institute’s (BFI) 68th London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list.

Endurance, which Oscar winners Vasarhelyi and Chin have made for National Geographic, will screen as a world premiere. Running October 9-20, Lff will feature 40 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, and 21 European Premieres.

Eye-grabbing entries from today’s launch include headline gala screenings of Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, Edward Berger’s latest feature Conclave, and Ali Abbasi’s much-talked-about Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. Other highly-anticipated titles that arrive from the...

The first Big Brother 26 Endurance Challenge was a dud.

Fans who waited all season for a battle of endurance were rewarded with the Wall Competition on Thursday night (August 15). But it didn’t last long.

Roughly three hours after Cedric Hodges was sent home, the remaining players competed to become Head of Household.

Everyone (even Angela Murray and Quinn Martin) got to compete in a battle of endurance to take the Week 5 power.

After Cedric Hodges got blindsided and sent home, this was an important week to be in charge. And several people knew it.

The Live Feeds waited until after the West Coast had viewed the August 15 episode, and then everyone got to watch the challenge live.

Who won the Wall Competition on Big Brother 26?

Let’s put it this way; the Wall Competition was so short that the producers must add filler content for when it is featured on the August 18 episode.

Glen Powell shared embarrassing reality TV show stint on Endurance with Stephen Colbert, who couldn't stop laughing. Fans surprised by Powell's failed experience, recalling Endurance as iconic despite its short-lived run on TV. Powell now balancing acting career with returning to University of Texas to complete degree.

We have seen this in the past, Stephen Colbert unable to keep a straight face after an interview reveal. It took place in 2023 after Sandra Bullock revealed the only autograph she ever asked for (Daniel Radcliffe). However, it happened again recently, as Glen Powell spilled the details on his failed reality TV show experience. Now it wasn't quite Survivor, but hardcore fans of Endurance will tell you it was even better.

Let's recap Powell's reveal and how Colbert reacted. Endurance was a big deal during the early 2000s. However, for Powell, it was all a forgettable experience given how short-lived it proved to be.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over premiered in 2003, taking advantage of the 3-D craze with young actor Glen Powell in a small role. Powell's career exploded post-Spy Kids, reaching A-list status after Top Gun: Maverick. His first film role was a confident performance. Despite initial setbacks on TV's Endurance, Powell's career ascended, showcasing his passion for acting in diverse roles.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, the third film in Robert Rodriguez's kids' spy franchise, features a very young Glen Powell in a small role. The third installment in the Spy Kids movie franchise premiered in 2003, taking full advantage of the 3-D craze at the time. The film sees Juni (Daryl Sabara) traveling into the Tron-like virtual reality world of "Game Over" where he competes against and with other agents and players to beat the game and save his sister, Carmen (Alexa Vega), who has disappeared into the game.

Glen Powell is riding high after a string of successful movies, including Top Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, and the new disaster movie spinoff Twisters. However, Stephen Colbert reminded the Scream Queens alum of one of his earliest on-screen appearances, one Powell would rather forget. Appearing on Wednesday’s (July 17) episode of The Late Show, Powell was surprised when Colbert brought up “one of his earliest forays into the world of action that wasn’t as successful.” The late-night host then unveiled a photo of a 13-year-old Powell on the Discovery Kids reality show Endurance, which aired between 2002 and 2008. “It’s really pretty hard for me to talk about, to be honest,” Powell said. “I’ve never talked about this publicly ever. The fact they pulled this out is shocking, but here we go. I was 13, I was on a show called Endurance; it’s basically a kids Survivor type show.

Glen Powell was probably one of the best parts of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick. Sure, the story and the action sequences were pretty damn good too but Hangman was certainly a treat to the eyes. However, Glen Powell was not always this ripped, obviously. It took a lot of perseverance and “Endurance” to get where he is today, quite literally.

Glen Powell in Top Gun: Maverick (2022) | Paramount Pictures

When Glen Powell was in his teenage years, he was offered a part in Endurance, a reality show that follows a similar script to that of CBS’ Survivor. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out for the actor on the show and he was eliminated much earlier than he expected. When he went back to school, he faced a lot of embarrassment thanks to his fellow students. That was when Glen Powell decided that he was going to turn his life around for good.

Law & Order began airing in 1990 and launched a new and unique way for audiences to watch television shows about the law. Each episode of Law & Order is essentially split in half -- first, audiences spend time with NYPD Detectives who must solve a homicide, and then viewers watch as the members of the District Attorney's office take the case to court. The detectives and lawyers overlap throughout the episode, as there isn't a distinct line drawn at the 30-minute mark, but the perspectives of the show make a noticeable shift once the perpetrator is caught.

The lawyers of the District Attorney's office are just as important to the show as the NYPD Detectives are. On Law & Order's spinoff shows, like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, there is often more time spent with the police than the law, but the original Law & Order remains consistently 50% police,...

Speakers and mentors taking part include BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays and Bafta chair Sara Putt.

Reclaim The Frame, the UK’s gender equality in cinema charity, has set the filmmakers from across the UK who will take part in the eighth edition of professional development programme, Filmonomics, with BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays and Bafta chair Sara Putt among the mentors and speakers offering their support.

Among the 18 filmmakers taking part for this edition are director Jessica Bishopp, who has had documentary shorts premiere in BFI London Film Festival and SXSW; Bafta Scotland-nominated producer and founder of Lothian Films,...

Clouds of gloom have settled over much of the documentary field, brought on by multiple factors: a sluggish acquisition market, cutbacks in the executive ranks at Netflix and Showtime, uncertainty around Hulu’s future, CNN Films taking doc production in house, sharper scrutiny of budgets and content needs, and… well, the list goes on.

But there’s at least one bright spot it the nonfiction firmament – National Geographic Documentary Films. Coming off its latest Oscar nomination – for the feature Fire of Love – the unit of the Walt Disney Company is leaning into documentary production with half a dozen films set for release or in the works.

First up: Wild Life, a film Carolyn Bernstein, EVP of global scripted content and documentary films for NatGeo, calls “a big, beautiful love story.” The couple at the heart of it – Doug and Kris Tompkins — left the corporate world for life in remote Chile.

Exclusive: For NASA’s pioneering Black astronauts, gravity wasn’t the only barrier impeding them from reaching the highest heights. They also faced another implacable force, in the form of racial bias.

National Geographic Documentary Films today announced filmmakers Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza will direct and produce The Space Race, a feature documentary “that will uncover the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and scientists to become astronauts” and the obstacles that impacted their trajectory. Frank Marshall and Tony Rosenthal of The Kennedy/Marshall Company will executive produce the film, along with Carolyn Bernstein of National Geographic Documentary Films and Leland Melvin. The project will be produced by Kennedy/Marshall’s Alexandra Bowen and Aly Parker, Diamond Docs’ Mark Monroe and independent producer Keero Birla. Monroe will also serve as the film’s writer.

Astronaut Ed Dwight is interviewed for ‘The Space Race.

Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin expressed differing opinions on sharing one’s own work.

Oscar-winning Free Solo wife- and- husband directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin debated the niceties of promoting one’s own work in a talk about their filmmaking careers - spotlighting the professional climbers who have been the subject of two of their films.

They were talking at an event in the Cph:Conference Artists & Auteurs series at Cph:Dox on March 21.

“There’s always been those athletes that were really good at self-promotion – leveraged what they did to make their career or start a business,” said Chin,...

Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin expressed differing opinions on sharing one’s own work.

Oscar-winning Free Solo wife- and- husband directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin debated the niceties of promoting one’s own work in a talk about their filmmaking careers - spotlighting the professional climbers who have been the subject of two of their films.

They were talking at an event in the Cph:Conference Artists & Auteurs series at Cph:Dox on March 21.

“There’s always been those athletes that were really good at self-promotion – leveraged what they did to make their career or start a business,” said Chin,...

Exclusive: Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit are boarding the National Geographic documentary Endurance (working title), the incredible story of “the epic search to find the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.”

The announcement comes almost exactly a year after Shackelton’s ship Endurance was discovered eerily intact on the Weddell Sea floor near the northernmost part of the Antarctic, more than a hundred years after the vessel sank. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust organized and funded the mission to find the historic wreck.

Map of the Sir Ernest Shackleton expedition in Antarctica onboard the Endurance

Shackelton and his crew of 27 set sail in late 1914 on an exploratory mission endorsed by Winston Churchill, then Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty. The ship became trapped in sea ice, forcing the crew to quit the vessel and set up camp on an ice floe.

Despite turning 70 last year and being about to hit the milestone of 100 films with the upcoming release of neo-noir crime thriller Marlowe, Liam Neeson isn’t even trying to slow down.

The Hollywood Reporter can reveal that the Irish star will take the lead in The Riker’s Ghost, reuniting him with his Marlowe director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with a Vampire).

Capstone is handling international sales on the feature and will introduce it to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin. CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. rights.

Written by Sean O’Keefe (Spenser Confidential), Brian Rudnick (Dungeons & Dragons) and Jordan, The Riker’s Ghost will see Neeson play a convict set for release from prison who, when his lawyer is kidnapped, is forced to break out a terrorist. Principal photography is set to commence principal photography from September 2023.

“This is a unique take on the prison escape,...

The live-action Hot Wheels movie has officially found its writers. Mattel has been developing Hot Wheels toys since 1968, and the scale model cars have been a childhood staple ever since. While intended to be a competitor for Matchbox toys by offering kids the opportunity to play with models of real-world cars, Hot Wheels has developed into a brand of toys and collectibles.

Development of a Hot Wheels movie was announced in 2003 but stagnated numerous times along the way with Columbia Pictures and Legendary Pictures. Now, Warner Bros. will be producing the film based on the toy line.

Exclusive: Mattel is putting gas in the tank of its Warner Bros-Bad Robot movie ‘Hot Wheels’ with writers Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson boarding to pen the live-action adaptation of the 54-year old racing car toy https://t.co/iMwW6l0TYz — Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) January 23, 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Bad Robot,...

Mattel is making room in the backseat of its Hot Wheels movie for writers Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson. The duo is responsible for writing the toys-to-screen adaptation based on the time-honored Mattel franchise, hailing from Warner Bros. and Bad Robot. The toy-making company is exploring several projects based on popular toylines, including American Girl, Barney, Magic 8 Ball, Major Matt Mason, Matchbox, Masters of the Universe, Polly Pocket, Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots, Thomas & Friends, Uno, View-Master, and Wish Bone. In addition to the properties mentioned above, Mattel is also developing Christmas Balloon and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

According to The Npd Group retail tracking service, Hot Wheels are the #1 selling toy worldwide, with over 8 billion vehicles sold. As many of us played with the tiny cars at some point in our lives, that number isn’t a huge surprise. While we don’t...

Exclusive: Mattel is putting gas in the tank of its Warner Bros-Bad Robot movie Hot Wheels with writers Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson boarding to pen the live-action adaptation of the 54-year old racecar toys.

Robbie Brenner, EP for Mattel Films, will lead the project alongside VP Kevin McKeon, VP and creative executive Andrew Scannell. Hannah Minghella and Jon Cohen are overseeing for Bad Robot.

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Nick and Dalton sold their original sci-fi spec, Endurance, to Netflix with Simon Kinberg producing in a multi-studio bidding war. The script follows a group of AI robots that...

Matt Turner gets an easy week on Big Brother 24. Pic credit: CBS

Big Brother 24 spoilers from the live feeds have revealed what happened during the Veto Competition today.

It is Week 6 for the BB24 cast, and a new Head of Household has been trying to make some big moves in the game.

Taylor Hale won the late-night Endurance Challenge right after Daniel Durston got evicted. This allowed Taylor some safety for the week, and she also got to enjoy some time without Daniel bad-mouthing her.

Outside of the house, Daniel was blaming other houseguests for his behavior toward Taylor, something that Kat Dunn wasn’t going to stand for when she interviewed him.

On Friday, Taylor nominated Terrance Higgins and Indy Santos for eviction. Taylor told her alliances that it is Terrance who she wants out this week, so he was the primary target.

Saturday afternoon, six people played in the latest Veto Competition.

Daniel Durston finished in 12th place on Big Brother 24. Pic credit: CBS

Daniel Durston was evicted from Big Brother 24 and has begun doing his post-show interviews, leading him to answer some questions from BB21 cast member Kat Dunn.

During his time on the show, Daniel received a lot of flak for what many Big Brother fans saw as bullying and the ostracizing of Taylor. And his behavior toward Taylor became the part of several segments on the show itself.

Now that he is out of the game, Daniel is backpedaling on a lot of the things that he said, and he is claiming that the producers are giving him a “villain edit” while giving Taylor the “hero edit” this summer.

When Kat asked Daniel about that, he claimed that Taylor called Jasmine Davis “fat” in the house, but that was something that never happened. It was one of several comments...

Over 100 years after explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance was shipwrecked, The New York Times reported on March 9 that the ship has been discovered. The miraculous story is now set to become a NatGeo documentary.

Airing as part of the network’s “Explorer” franchise this fall, “Endurance” will chart the discovery of Sir Shackleton’s shipwrecked Endurance, which sank in the Antarctic in 1915. The ship was located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones. The Endurance22 search expedition team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the 144-foot wooden ship went down. The wreck was found at a depth of 3,008 meters.

NatGeo is partnering with ABC News, Snow’s History Hit, All3Media label Little Dot Studios, and Consequential for the feature, directed by BAFTA nominee Natalie Hewit.

The Endurance initially sank in 1915 after being “crushed...

The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the subject that has fascinated the world for over a century.

National Geographic has partnered exclusively with History Hit, the SVOD and content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow; All3Media’s Little Dot Studios and production company Consequential for a documentary detailing the successful search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of history — Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance.”

“Endurance” left South Georgia for Antarctica on Dec. 5, 1914, carrying Shackleton and 27 other men with the goal of reaching the South Pole and crossing the continent via an overland trek. However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915. The crew made it by sea to uninhabited Elephant Island before Shackleton and five men set off...

Exclusive: Golden Globe winner Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) is joining John Cena, Alison Brie and Juan Pablo Raba in director Pierre Morel’s (Taken) action-comedy Freelance, which is filming in Colombia.

Freelance follows a special forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the states. After several years of mortgage payments, school drop offs, backyard barbecues and trying to conform to life in suburbia, he decides to come out of retirement to take a gig providing security for a female journalist (Brie) as she interviews a cruel dictator who may or may not have ordered the attack on him and his men. When a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, the three are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive the elements, the military and one another.

Endurance Media’s Steve Richards is producing alongside...

With “Dancing with the Stars” set to come back for a 30th season this fall, there’s a long list of celebrities who deserve to compete on the dance floor. Below is a list of female stars I think the show should consider inviting to the ballroom to vie for the next Mirror Ball Trophy. Do you agree with my picks? Vote in our poll at the bottom of this post to let us know which you’d most like to see on “DWTS.” And feel free to let us know in the comments what other stars you would like to see when the show comes back in September.

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Sentient and Endurance Media are producing and will finance the project.

Sam Worthington, star of the upcoming Avatar sequels, is in advanced talks to take a break from Pandora to play the lead in shark-versus-killer whale thriller Alphas, which Voltage Pictures is introducing to Efm buyers.

Sentient and Endurance Media are producing and will finance the project. Steven Quale (Final Destination 5), who co-directed Aliens Of The Deep with James Cameron and started out as second unit director on Titanic and Avatar, will direct the high seas adventure.

The producers have already licensed the feature to Germany (Square One/Prosieben), Spain (YouPlanet), and Middle East,...

David Heyman’s Heyday Films, the company behind this year’s hot Oscar contenders “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Marriage Story,” and Hardy Son & Baker (“Taboo & Christmas Carol”) are set to produce “Shackleton,” the long-gestating biopic of legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Tom Hardy is on board to play the title role, and will also produce the pic alongside Dean Baker through their banner Hardy Son & Baker which originated the project.

“Tom and I were always fascinated by Shackleton as a leader and his contagious optimism and absolute belief in his team,” Baker told Variety. “At a time where leaders seem to be more about self than society, Shackleton sacrificed his own needs to ensure the wellbeing of his team – thats inspirational,” added Baker.

Written by “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” scribe Peter Straughan, “Shackleton” will reteam Heyday Films and Studiocanal, who most recently delivered two successful “Paddington...

Netflix has flexed its muscle to pick up Endurance, a sci-fi spec written by Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson. Simon Kinberg, making his first feature deal since exiting his overall deal at Fox, is producing via his Genre Films production banner.

The package garnered multiple bids, with the deal, struck Friday night, almost hitting seven figures, a massive payday for the newbie writers. Leeb is a commercials actor, while Jacobson-Larson is a composer and conductor who is currently on tour with Michael Bublé. The pair have been writing together for some time — their script Strong Man landed on the 2017 ...

Netflix has flexed its muscle to pick up Endurance, a sci-fi spec written by Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson. Simon Kinberg, making his first feature deal since exiting his overall deal at Fox, is producing via his Genre Films production banner.

The package garnered multiple bids, with the deal, struck Friday night, almost hitting seven figures, a massive payday for the newbie writers. Leeb is a commercials actor, while Jacobson-Larson is a composer and conductor who is currently on tour with Michael Bublé. The pair have been writing together for some time — their script Strong Man landed on the 2017 ...

Zac Efron has jumped on board the comedy biopic ‘King of the Jungle’, a film focused on the anti-virus tech guru John McAfee.

Efron will play the role of Wired magazine investigator Ari Furman who accepts an interview assignment with McAfee and soon finds himself pulled into escalating paranoia, slippery reality, and murder.

Both Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton and Seth Rogen were at one time attached to the project. Depp was initially set to play the role of McAfee and was later replaced by Keaton. Rogen was down to play the role which Efron has now stepped into. Currently, apart from Efron, the project is still looking for its cast.

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The feature is based on Joshua Davis Wired magazine article ‘John McAfee’s Last Stand. McAfee cashed in his fortune, left civilization, and moved to the jungle in Belize,...

Seth Rogen and Michael Keaton are set to team up on the comedy biopic ‘King of the Jungle’ based on the life of anti-virus tech magnate John McAfee.

The feature is based on Joshua Davis Wired magazine article ‘John McAfee’s Last Stand and will see Keaton will play McAfee, creator of the McAfee Antivirus software. McAfee cashed in his fortune, left civilization, and moved to the jungle in Belize, where he set up a compound of guns, sex, and madness.

Rogen will play the role of Wired magazine investigator Ari Furman, who accepts what he thinks is a run-of-the-mill assignment to interview McAfee, but once he arrives in Belize, he finds himself pulled into McAfee’s escalating paranoia, slippery reality, and murder.

Also in the news – Alexander Skarsgard in talks to join ‘Godzilla Vs Kong’

‘I Love You Phillip Morris, directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are at the...

After years of writing great comic book stories for Marvel Comics, Brian Micheal Bendis headed over to DC Comics to try something new and play with their characters. Well, it has been announced that he'll write a new 12-part Batman story arc in Batman Giant. This is the first time he will be writing a story for the Dark Knight and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with the character.

This comic is a part of DC's new line of 100-page Giant comics for Walmart. Bendis has had his fair share of working with dark, gritty, and grounded heroes in the past such as Daredevil and Jessica Jones, so Batman should be a fun character for him to play with.

What's interesting is that Bendis is currently writing Superman for DC and while he's taking on Batman for DC's Walmart-exclusive titles, DC's Batman writer Tom King will write a 12-issue Superman story arc.

Todd Nelson is staying is business with 3 Ball Entertainment. The co-founder of the company behind such hit unscripted franchises as Bar Rescue and For Love or Money, has re-upped as CEO for two more years, alongside his co-ceo Ross Weintraub. Nelson co-founded 3 Ball Productions (now 3 Ball Entertainment) in 2003 with his producing partner Jd Roth. Together they grew the company from hit kids' series Endurance for Discovery, to major franchises including Beauty and Geek…...

Last night's Intervention featured Skyler Russell, a 24-year-old addicted to a drug disguised as bath salts; he appeared at age 14 on the first season of Discovery Kids' Endurance (which was Survivor for teenagers). He and his orange team partner placed fifth; that season's winner was The Real World Cancun cast member Jonna Mannion. The episode suggested Skyler's mother was kind of a stage mom ("I pushed him every direction ... and I pushed hard,"...

Not every reality show Ashton Kutcher touches turns to gold. After the relative successes of Punk’d and Beauty and the Geek, his latest show, ABC’s Opportunity Knocks, has been canceled after only three episodes, making it the first show on the network to get the axe. There are six episodes left to air, which ABC claims it will do somewhere down the line, but for now the slot will be replaced with a Dancing with the Stars recap show, since it’s not like ABC doesn’t show that show often enough. You know what I think went wrong here? Ashton Kutcher’s production company teamed up with 3Ball Entertainment, a company created for seemingly the sole purpose of giving one of 3Ball’s founders, Jd Roth, employment. He hosted the show, just as he hosts another 3Ball show called Endurance and provides the narration for The Biggest Loser—another 3Ball show.