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  • CBS
  • Feb 7, 2010
  • CBS
  • Feb 7, 2010

Summary In this hidden-camera show an executive goes undercover in his or her own company to get a raw look at how people really work. The series will premiere on CBS after Super Bowl XLIV.

  • CBS
  • Feb 7, 2010
  • CBS
  • Feb 7, 2010
Undercover Boss
Season 1
11 Seasons
Season Premiere: Feb 7, 2010
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
59
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Summary In this hidden-camera show an executive goes undercover in his or her own company to get a raw look at how people really work. The series will premiere on CBS after Super Bowl XLIV.

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11 Seasons

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Mark Keller

Self - Announcer, Announcer

Brie Thiele

Host of Fake Reality Show, Self, Decoy

Stephen J. Cloobeck

Self, CEO Diamond Resorts International, CEO and Chairman of Diamond Resorts International

Sheldon Yellen

Self, CEO of Belfor, Self - CEO of Belfor

Rick Silva

Self, Alex Garcia, President and CEO of Checkers

Stephanie Haney

Self - Host

John Fuller

Self, Self - President & CEO of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Self - President & CEO of Johnny Rockets

Eric Casaburi

Founder and CEO of Retro Fitness, Self, Self - Founder and CEO of Retro Fitness

Coby Brooks

Former CEO of Hooters, Former Hooters CEO, Himeself

Mitchell Modell

Self - CEO, Modell's Sporting Goods

Kat Cole

Self - President, Cinnabon Inc.

Rick Tigner

Self, CEO of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, President of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates

Dan DiZio

Self, CEO & Co-Founder of Philly Pretzel Factory, CEO of Philly Pretzel Factory

Steve Phelps

Self, Self - Chief Marketing Officer of NASCAR, Self - NASCAR Chief Marketing Officer

Mike White

President & CEO:of DirecTV, Self, Self - President & CEO of DirecTV, Self - President & CEO: DirecTV, Tom Peters

Mark Mallory

Self, Mayor of Cincinnati

Justin Nichols

Host of Fake Reality Show, Self, Host

Chelsea Gilson

Self - Decoy Host, Decoy Host

Shelley Sun

Self - CEO & Co-Founder of BrightStar Care, Self - CEO & Co-Founder: BrightStar Care

Ronald Croatti

Self, Self - President & CEO of UniFirst

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
59
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
59
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review

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88
The personalities are so appealing, and the jobs are so humbling, that this would have been a great one-shot documentary. Can they keep up the impact week after week? Or will we suffer from empathy fatigue sooner rather than later?
FULL REVIEW
80
Undercover Boss isn't spectacular TV. But its real appeal lies in the exercise itself: watching a CEO meet actual workers and realize they work hard at jobs often made harder by petty rules and policies.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW

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80
It'll bring a smile to your face and, yes, warm your heart a bit.
By Scott D. Pierce FULL REVIEW
50
Undercover Boss, a CBS reality show that turns the tables on management, seems tailor-made for the anticorporate rancor of the times, but if anything, it paints too rosy a picture of white-collar benevolence.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW
50
A "reality" show so huggy-weepy that it will put even the most enraged domestic abuser to sleep.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
42
Instead of being uplifting, Boss feels opportunistic and condescending in a way that something like Dirty Jobs never does.
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30
What we get instead is a hollow catharsis for a nation already strung out on the futility of resenting those who occupy CEO suites.
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