season premiered on 2 November 2012 on CBS. On 13 March 2014, CBS announced the sixth season renewal of Undercover Boss. The ninth season premiered on 8 January 2020. Undercover Boss won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2013 and 2012 having also been nominated in the same category in 2011 and 2010. Undercover Boss has been criticised as a reality show for presenting scenarios and situations which rarely happen to employees in real workplaces and are in fact dramatic tricks. Others point out that CEOs in real-life workplaces do not typically go out of their way to provide gifts and other extra benefits to front-line employees at the expense of the bottom line. Alex McLevy of The A.V. Club was severely critical of the show: "Undercover Boss is some of the most blatant propaganda on American television. It's a shameless endorsement of capitalist inequality that may as well end each episode by reminding everyday Americans that they should shut up and be grateful their lives are controlled by such selfless exemplars of virtue. It's class warfare in everything but name." Celebrity In May 2018 CBS aired a celebrity season of the series, after two celebrity episodes aired as part of the prior season. International broadcasts The American version has been broadcast on a variety of international networks: The network in bold indicates that they also air their own version of Undercover Boss. In addition, international versions have been aired in the United States on TLC and Oprah Winfrey Network, under the umbrella title Undercover Boss Abroad. See also Back to the Floor (UK TV series) Back to the Floor (Canadian TV series) Secret Millionaire (UK TV series) References External links 2000s British reality television series 2010s British reality television series Reality television series franchises Workplace television series