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"NEW YORK -- TNN has acquired 13 episodes of "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge," a Japanese game show that will be translated for U.S. consumption. Premiering with back-to-back half-hour episodes at 9 p.m. April 13, "Challenge" features contestants engaged in wacky, dangerous stunts. Contests include people running up a hill as they dodge falling boulders and running across spinning logs floating on water. Like Food Network's "Iron Chef," the action will not be altered in any way for U.S. viewers except for translation of the broadcasters narrating the event. The broadcasters are dressed in samurai outfits on "Challenge." The series, which was acquired from RC Entertainment and retains its Japanese title, will join the original series "Slamball" and a pair of World Wrestling Entertainment programs for TNN's male-friendly "Slammin' Saturday Night" lineup. (Andrew Wallenstein)"
If you like laughing at people getting thrown into walls, smacked with huge rubber boulders, and falling head first into shallow muddy pits, this WILL be your new favorite show on tv. It’s a half an hour of stupidly dubbed clips from the popular japanese game show Takeshi’s Castle, hosted by Beat Takeshi. Granted the commentary is a bit silly at times, thanks entirely to making poop jokes every ten seconds, but the stupid stuff the contestants do on the show more than makes up for it. This is EASILY one of the funniest shows on tv, provided you enjoy laughing at funny dressed foreign people hurting themselves for crappy prizes and fifteen seconds of fame.
Think: American Gladiators meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.