Don't Call It a Comeback (because it might last as long as the last one) or: That's Wipeout!
It’s been a long time (again) and this time I’m ripping off Charlie Brooker, rather than some whiny emo e/n livejournal shit, for your entertainment (?).
And for my first victim: Total Wipeout (no relation to the Paul Daniels/Bob Monkhouse fronted gameshow), the new show in BBC One’s early Saturday evening ritual humiliation slot, replacing the excruciating Dale Winton’s (Glory) Hole in the Wall. The premise, for those of you who are still young enough to have something better to do on a Saturday night, is that 20 contestants attempt to cross on obstacle course where you fall into mud or water if you come off any of the equipment and the contestants are whittled down at each stage until the final 3 race across the final course to decide the winner.
If you’re thinking Takeshi’s Castle or Ninja Warrior you need to watch less Challenge, but you’re also right – this time it’s Richard Hammond instead of Stuart Hall and they’re all British contestants, but the principle’s the same. The show’s filmed in Argentina – why? Presumably because you need to offer the carrot of a free holiday to Buenos Aires to get people there, or maybe because the health and safety laws are looser there and the massively dangerous courses where people have come very close to hideous neck snapping injuries already wouldn’t be allowed over here. In the first episode one contestant had to pull
out after the first stage on doctor’s advice because she’d taken too many bumps, a fact illustrated with a clip of her being punched in the uterus by the wall of boxing gloves (cue laughter track).
I also know at least one person in a later show ended up in hospital after the second round course because on of my friends was a contestant on the show. What kind of person does these things you ask? No, not a moron at all in this case, a graduate with a mortgage to pay and no job, who thought it might be the easiest £10k they ever made. From what I saw on the first show they’d have been safer (and far more likely to make the money) working as a fluffer in an AIDS
clinic.
The thing already has a terrifyingly detailed Wikipedia page and the beeb is already looking for contestants for series 3, if you missed it, you've missed out on the start of something big. Or cheap and easy to produce, with someone who's been on it with way too much time on their hands.
P.S. Why is the formatting screwed up? How an I being a fuckwit? If you can fix it please do and tell me how to avoid screwing it up in the future. Ta!
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Your problem was when copy and pasting from Word, it brought across a load of bullshit extra encoding information and fucked up the formatting. In future, paste your post into a plain text writer (line Notepad) and it should remove all that jazz.
I'm intrigued by this show.... people doing stupid shit for money is always funny, especially when it involves serious injuries and their disappointed faces as they realise they realise they've not only maimed themselves on National TV, they also have the Debt Busters knocking on their doors on Monday morning..
Cheers
I see what I've done there, and will follow the instructions in future.
It's not worth going out of your way to watch, and you'll get sick of Hammond's links pretty quickly but Sky+ it and watch it in high speed and it's ok for that sort of thing.
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