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.
Or put on trousers while on a moving conveyor belt.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; it's been a very long time since any of have heard an Eddie Calvert record.
Catchphrases
- "Fail!" - shouted by the anonymous referees after an unsuccessful attempt at a game.
- "Game failed" - shouted if a contestant had expended a game's fifteen lives.
- "Challenge failed" - shouted if a contestant expands all fifty of their lives.
Web links
See also
Weaver's Week started a review, but flounced off in a huff.
