Wipeout is an American television game show. It features contestants competing in (what was billed as) the "World's Largest" obstacle course which originally aired on ABC from June 24, 2008 to September 7, 2014. In 2021, the show was rebooted on TBS, with John Cena, Nicole Byer, and Camille Kostek as hosts.
The premise of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (as distinct from Takeshi's Castle) is a game show that is hosted by the eccentric characters Vic Romano (Vic Wilson) and Kenny Blankenship (Chris Darga), along with the field marshal Captain Tenneal (John Cervenka) and the field reporter Guy LeDouche (John Cervenka).
Contestants run, jump, crawl, climb, hang, and swing through crazy obstacles as they compete to become the nex... Read all Contestants make their way through a giant obstacle course to win a cash prize.
Contestants make their way through a giant obstacle course to win a cash prize. Contestants run, jump, crawl, climb, hang, and swing through crazy obstacles as they compete to become the nex...
The show's ratings have been coming down over the years and the seventh season was no exception. The 12 episodes, which finished airing in September 2014, registered just a 0.97 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.52 million viewers. That was down about 10% season-to-season.
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In April 2011, Wagner announced that she was leaving Wipeout after four seasons to focus on her acting career; she was succeeded by Vanessa Minnillo for the series' fifth season.
One of the most popular obstacle course shows in recent memory is 2008's Wipeout, which was so good it was rebooted in 2021. In this show, contestants would need to go through four rounds of obstacles before they could be crowned champion.
Wipeout is an American television game show....Wipeout (2008 game show)WipeoutAlso known asWinter Wipeout Spring Wipeout Summer Wipeout Total Wipeout USAGenreCompetition ComedyCreated byMatt Kunitz Scott LarsenDirected byJ. Rupert Thompson15 more rows
Hosts John Henson and John Anderson may have some scripted lines, too, but the joy and pleasure they get out of watching what's happening is immediately apparent. And the editing is actually coherent.
TBS revealed more about the return of Wipeout in a press release. “All new episodes of Cable's #1 New Comedy Wipeout return on Thursday, January 11, 2022 at 9pm/8c on TBS.
Wipeout is an American television game show hosted by John Cena, Nicole Byer, and Camille Kostek which premiered on TBS on April 1, 2021....Wipeout (2021 game show)WipeoutOriginal networkTBSOriginal releaseApril 1, 2021 – present16 more rows
The first-place winner in each episode of Wipeout walks away with a $25,000 check. It's not bad for a day of work and getting flung all over the place by the oversized punching bags and other padded surfaces.
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Based in Santa Clarita, California, the ranch is the base for the huge crash course that contestants brave on Wipeout 2021. In north Los Angeles, the ranch is a large enough greenery to place all of the face-planters, flying ride at the start, and wipe-out equipment.
Contestants make their way through a giant obstacle course to win a cash prize. Contestants run, jump, crawl, climb, hang, and swing through crazy obstacles as they compete to become the next Team Ninja champion. This show is a test against a person's will and strength. — Shaun Lockley
The athletes are incredible, but the commentators are so uncharismatic. If you're a sucker for backstories, most contestants have a several-minute feature before their run. The unique stories are absolutely worth telling, but the rest become repetitive. The amount of talking is too much.
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There have been eight video games based on Wipeout. The series was first adapted into Wipeout: The Game, which was released June 22, 2010 in conjunction with the Season 3 premiere. The game was released on the Wii and Nintendo DS, and was developed by Activision. The game is played in two different versions.
On January 6, 2011, the first season of Winter Wipeout premiered with the series' highest ratings ever, beating the 8pm competition in the coveted 18–49 demographic and many other key demos.
The final four or three contestants play separately on a large obstacle course inside the studio called the Wipeout Zone, each attempting to finish the course in the fastest time, much like the first round. Though slight variations are used in each episode, contestants wear wetsuits and they begin by either sliding down a water ramp or being launched by a giant catapult or blob into the course, swimming to the first obstacle. Obstacles have varied between episodes, but the course contains several obstacles that must be traversed in order to reach the finishing platform. The player with the fastest time on the course is declared the "champion" of the episode and is awarded the show's grand prize of $50,000. The Wipeout Zone often brings competitors to the brink of exhaustion, especially when they have to swim back to a starting point to retry a failed obstacle.
Vanessa Lachey departed the series due to her impending pregnancy. On August 30, 2012, Activision released a Wipeout game for iOS. It quickly became the top-selling app in the App Store. On May 9, 2013, season six premiered. In its sixth season, Wipeout celebrated its 100th episode.
Endemol Shine North America has sold the show's format to more than 40 territories and has created two obstacle courses in Argentina for those international editions. Past, current and upcoming versions include:
The announcement added: "Wipeout has the distinction of being the only broadcast reality series launched in recent years that has demonstrated proven staying power." On October 13, 2010, ABC announced plans that the fourth season would be split into three sections – Winter, Spring, and Summer; with a total of 32 episodes: 8 Winter episodes, 7 Spring episodes and 17 Summer episodes. The fourth season premiered on January 6, 2011.
It features contestants competing in (what was billed as) the "World's Largest" obstacle course which originally aired on ABC from June 24, 2008 to September 7, 2014. In 2021, the show was rebooted on TBS, with John Cena, Nicole Byer, and Camille Kostek as hosts.
Hosted by Elizabeth Banks, this revival of the iconic game show sees contestants answering questions to earn spins on the Big Board. There, as well as in the new bonus game, they’ll try to avoid the devilish Whammy, who could take all their earnings.
Anthony Anderson returns as the host of the game show revival in which a panel must figure out which one of three people is the person they claim to be.
ABC’s Summer Fun & Games programming includes classics like To Tell the Truth and Press Your Luck updated with twists. Fox has a fresh take on your childhood game of tag. And NBC’s America’s Got Talent and World of Dance are back with more memorable performances.
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America's Got Talent (NBC) Heidi Klum returns and Sofia Vergara joins judges Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel and host Terry Crews for a new season of performers including singers, dancers, comedians, contortionists, impressionists, magicians, ventriloquists, and more.
The new series is based on the childhood game, with “professional Taggers” chasing contestants through various courses. Hosted by the NFL’s JJ, TJ, and Derek Watt, this might be the answer for those missing American Ninja Warrior.
Most Extreme Elimination Challenge was created and produced by RC Entertainment, Inc. (Paul Abeyta and Peter Kaikko) in Los Angeles, California, and Larry Strawther (a writer and producer on a number of network sitcoms). The three were friends who had worked together at Merv Griffin Productions in the late 1970s.
Spike initially held a contest in 2005 or 2006 in which the winner was to have his name and the name of five of his friends used in an episode of MXC and would also receive a viewing party of that episode for up to 50 people at a place of his choice.
In MXC, Vic is level-headed, has a dark past of alcohol abuse, failed marriages, and various addictions, and generally treats MXC as a serious competition. Vic was once also a professional baseball player who became addicted to "everything", including every type of drug, alcohol, and easy women.
The 2004 special episode MXC Almost Live is the property of Viacom International and was filmed in Orlando, Florida, by the producers of MXC .
The character is played by Japanese actor and movie director Takeshi Kitano, who also created the original series from which MXC takes its footage, Takeshi's Castle. Kenny Blankenship (voiced by Chris Darga) is Vic's co-host and color commentator. Blankenship is a high-school dropout whose uncle owns the network.
After the contestants raise their hands to show agreement, the Captain usually declares "Well, you're wrong!", but in a few episodes, he actually agrees with the contestants. He'll sometimes defend his opinion by saying, "Of course I'm right, I'm the Captain!" After further explanation and give-and-take with individual contestants, he bellows "Let's go!" and leads the contestants forward to begin playing the games. Captain Tenneal is played by Hayato Tani.
On April 22, 2004, Spike TV aired a special edition of the show to start the third season, featuring skateboarder Tony Hawk and snowboarder Tara Dakides. The special was taped at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida, using students from nearby colleges and dubbed MXC Almost Live. The special edition is not based on the original Takeshi's Castle footage, but only has some added in for Vic, Ken, the Captain, and Guy LeDouche. Actors were hired to play those who would replace the roles of the latter two, named "Major Babe" (Michelle Sorrell) and "Gip LeDouche" (Eric Esteban).
This short-lived Turkish game show selected 12 self-proclaimed atheists out of a group of 200+ applicants and then had a panel of religious clerics attempt to convert the unbeliever to their own religion over the course of several weeks. A rabbi, an imam, a priest, and a Buddhist monk were all given the chance to try to convince each atheist to embrace a religion and, if the person was successfully converted, he or she then earned an all expenses paid trip to that religions' holiest site. So maybe the show produced some new true believers, or maybe it just offered some sly cricketers free trips to Mecca, the Vatican, or Tibet. What it didn't do was earn a big following or a long run on television.
Televised game shows have been around for almost as long as the medium of television itself. In fact, the first ever TV game show, Spelling Bee, aired in 1938, which was less than a decade after the first TV sets were created, and well before they became a fixture in every home (or in every room in every home, as is common in 2017).
There's nothing all that strange about the premise of The Newlywed Game, and indeed it's even rather endearing in theory: the game asked newly married couples a series of questions about one another, revealing how well the spouses knew each other and often comically revealing what they didn't in fact know or expect. The thing is the show was really just one long series of euphemisms for questions about sexual practices. The show, which ran in the 1960s and was then revived in the 80s and 90s, led to many spousal arguments and is even "credited" for leading to a number of divorces. The episodes that led to discord were of course some of the best rated, so there was no reason for the show to avoid such controversies.
(Albeit only for a short time, in some cases.) Yes, every one of these ridiculous game shows is real. That means not only did a bunch or executives and producers gather in a conference room and give them the green light, but it also means a plethora of contestants said: "Hey, sounds great. I'm in!"
That's right, they made a game show based off of... musical chairs. Yes, contestants had to clamber over all sorts of crazy obstacles and perform feats requiring varying degrees of fitness and acrobatic prowess, but look: it's just musical chairs.
In Takeshi's Castle, a Japanese show that was later picked up by countries all around the world, contestants competed to find and "disarm" Count Takeshi using water guns and later lasers.
MXC took the footage from Takeshi's Castle, dubbed it with goofy American voices, and aired the entire thing on Spike. Buck Off! was one of the challenges that was renamed but still looked just as difficult.
If the victims were tagged, they would have to suffer some form of punishment that was written on their suit. Classic. 8. The Gliding Ring.
Super Vault was part of the all-female version of Sasuke, a Japanese show with striking similarities to Takeshi's Castle. In this challenge, competitors must pole vault over two bodies of water. Thing is, the landing platform is inclined, making it very difficult for the participant to land on her feet without falling back into the water.
One of the toughest challenges was High Rollers, which had nothing to do with blowing cash at a casino and getting a free room. Contestants had to run over seven large, spinning drums without falling off. Now, just imagine that special face-meets-spinning-drum sensation.
The 15 Most Intense Physical Challenges on Reality TV Competitions. For some people, a triathlon is a joyous event. These super-humans can run faster than you, swim faster than you, bike faster than you. They're fit in a way you can't imagine, as you sit on your couch, remote control in hand, ready to surf the channels.
Wipeout bills itself as having “the world‘s largest obstacle course.” That may or may not be true, but what is definitely true is that the folks behind Takeshi's Castle sued the Wipeout creators for copying their show.
This late '80s game show was all about destroying rooms in a fake house. Two teams ran amok in a fabricated house where they had to search for specific items given to them by the host of the show. Finders Keepers concludes with the winning team having to search six rooms of the house for hidden items. It's 30 minutes of people trashing rooms. As a kid, it was incredibly satisfying.
Network: Nickelodeon. The action-adventure game show was most noted for its giant, talking head mascot, Olmec. The show had a real Indiana Jones vibe to it as teams of two battled each other in challenges for the right to explore the Temple and win fabulous prizes, like a telescope, a boombox, or a trip to Space Camp.
Even during the arcade boom of the '80s, there were very few game shows revolving around video gaming. Starcade was the best and brightest of them, airing over 130 episodes. On the show, contestants would answer video game-related trivia questions and would battle each other on arcade games for top scores.
Fun House was Fox's attempt at replicating the greatness of Double Dare , but with a twist that made the finale of each episode a ton of fun. During the show, which ran from '88 to '91, contestants would battle each other in physical challenges. The winner of the opening rounds ended up going into Fun House, which was a wacky obstacle course where contestants had to find hidden flags.
Although the show had over 100 episodes and ran for two seasons, Nickelodeon's Get The Picture didn't even make it a full year, starting and ending its run in 1991. On this series, contestants would answer trivia questions and if they answered correctly, would uncover a piece of a mystery picture behind a giant video screen, and they'd have to guess what it is. The finale was the winners of the previous rounds playing a giant game of memory where they had to correctly guess where random pictures were on the giant board.
Dates: 1988-91. Network: Fox. Fun House was Fox' s attempt at replicating the greatness of Double Dare, but with a twist that made the finale of each episode a ton of fun. During the show, which ran from '88 to '91, contestants would battle each other in physical challenges.
Across its run on multiple networks, Shop 'til You Drop aired from '91-'05 and filmed close to 1,000 episodes.