Televising fatness -- Competing understandings of fatness -- Does TV make you fat? : television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic" -- The globesity epidemic : adapting weight-loss television around the world -- Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television -- Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity" -- Celebrating large bodies on the small screen : from fat visibility to fat positivity -- Conclusion : the decline of The biggest loser.