The Almost Impossible Gameshow
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Host
Voiceover: The Rubberbandits (Dave Chambers and Bob McGlynn)
Broadcast
Initial for ITV2, 1 October 2015 to 11 May 2016 (12 episodes in 2 series)
Synopsis
Contestants are tasked with completing straightforward but difficult challenges, with an inconsequential trophy on offer for those that succeed.
Each player has five challenges to complete and is allowed 50 failures over those five challenges. The challenges are designed to be difficult, almost impossible, such as shake baked goods off one's body in a few seconds. Fail any challenge fifteen times? Move on.
Key moments
The theme song, the first line of which is "It's not a gameshow, it's a way of life". You're half right - it's a game show, two words.
The music used in the series, much of which came from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Catchphrases
"Fail!" - shouted by the anonymous referees, or "game failed" if a contestant had expended a game's fifteen lives.
Theme music
it's not a gameshow it's a way of life don't think about your children forget about your wife you're chasing this fight you've cancelled your dreams but dressing up in costume and falling into streams it's not impossible the almost impossible gameshow-->
Web links
See also
Weaver's Week started a review, but flounced off in a huff.