(19 Oct 2016, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 wrote https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/to....lxzL3zBYZ

Nice little write up about the original series.

I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.

The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic. 

A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.