Question: The CBS show Tough as Nails has an individual competition each week. However, on a recent episode, the challenge was actually in pairs, so I believe this was not fair. Do you know why they made the change for this episode? —Kimberly
Matt Roush: This isn’t the first time Tough as Nails has done this. In the first season, also in the fourth episode (so it seems to be built into the format), the winner of the previous challenge was asked to assign teams of two for the individual competitions. This season’s exercise in herding sheep into pens made them realize they’d all have to work together for any of them to succeed. This round is closer to the reality-competition norm by requiring at least one player to exercise some strategy in choosing who pairs with whom, and it still resulted in a one-on-one “Overtime” challenge, so this didn’t play to me as unfair.
Question: Is there any chance for a Season 2 of Nurses being picked up by NBC? —Ken
Matt Roush: Nurses has been renewed for a second season in Canada, but that’s not a guarantee that NBC will pick it up. While it can be cost-effective for U.S. networks to poach shows from their northern neighbor, it may come down to whether NBC needs another filler now that the rest of the lineup is getting back to normal.
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