BBC are launching a new reality show, which looks like a cross between Race Across the World and the Traitors. What more could you want?
Two of the BBC’s most successful programmes have had a love child. Ok, we know that sounds weird but that is essentially the best way to describe their new reality competition show Destination X.
The BBC’s new competitive reality format is played out over an incredible journey through Europe, however they’ve said it’s a journey where things are not what they seem. With the travelling side of Race Across the World combined with the challenges and secrecy of The Traitors, what more could you want from a new TV series?
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What is it about?
Thirteen contestants will be take onboard a bus with blacked out windows, and the aim of the game is they have to guess where in the world they are. At the end of the episode each person must place an X on the map, and whoever puts their X furthest away from the location is immediately thrown off the X-bus and eliminated from the competition.
In the end the winner walks away with a cash prize of £100,000. Although, it won’t be an easy journey as they essentially turn the whole of Europe in to a board game, filled with a whole lot of travelling and epic challenges along the way.Players can also decide whether to share information or send each other in the wrong direction, this is where it sounds a little like The Traitors.
They’ve also said that viewers can join in and play along at home so get your geography knowledge at the ready. Do you think you could guess where Destination X is?
When will it be on?
Destination X will launch on Wednesday July,30 at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer. Each week there will be two episodes, with one airing on Wednesdays and the other on Thursdays.
In total there are 10 episodes in the series, so fans of the show will have five weeks to live vicariously through the competitors.
Who is hosting?
It will be hosted by none other than Uncle Bryn himself. Rob Brydon will be Destination X’s gamemaster who will take the contributors onboard the X-bus and ask them one simple question – where the X are they?
When asked what attracted him to the show, he explained: “I’ve never done a TV show on this scale before. I loved the idea of it, the combination of having to work out clues as to where you are and having to get on with each other. It struck me as the best bits of The Traitors with the best bits of Race Across the World.
“The other thing that attracted me was the scale of it and being a part of a show as ambitious as this, with as huge a crew and as huge a team. I knew it would be a real challenge to see if I could steer that ship.
You can watch Destination X on BBC One or BBC iPlayer from 9pm on Wednesday, July 30. You can find more information here.