Firebox Loves Total Wipeout

Have you seen it yet? Total Wipeout (not to be confused with Paul Daniels/Bob Monkhouse's 'Wipeout') is a modern day It's A Knockout for adults. When watching it you soon realize that this programme can't have been made in the UK, the lovely weather, the Teletubby set. It was infact shot in Buenos Aires.

The contestants tend to look like the sort of people you'd see on a Thomsons Holiday coach. A bizarre mixture of pepped up dad's, prove it to the world wags and Iceland "Baby it's cold outside..." workers. But enough about them, in fact the weirder the contestant, the more you want them to fail and boy do some FAIL.

Total Wipeout consists of a series of weird and wonderful water-based challenges to test the contestants ability to stand on a plinth as a big clock-like beam comes towards them, dodge a wall of boxing gloves, and bounce on a set of 4 massive balls to get to the end. Then there's the final challenge where you have to jump over barrels like Donkey Kong, walk over slippery beams and pretty much avoid falling into the pool.

The show airs on Saturday nights on BBC1 and is presented by Amanda Byram (Thomsons rep) in sunny Buenos Aires and Richard Hammond (Hamster) in a very cheap looking set in London.