Channel 4 commissions Race Across the World style show, World's Apart.
Entertainment News: Channel 4 has greenlit a brand new competition show that will see pairs of contestants embark on a challenge across Japan.
Channel 4 has greenlit a new adventure competition series titled Worlds Apart.
The show will pair up contestants from different generations – one younger and one older – as they embark on a travel-based challenge across Japan, drawing parallels with Race Across The World.
The broadcaster’s commissioning editor Genna Gibson said: "I’ve seen how generations can feel miles apart, but bring them together and you realise they share more than you think. “Japan, with its ancient traditions and cutting-edge modern life is the perfect backdrop for their journeys.”
Throughout their travels, the pairs will explore generational differences and common ground while taking on a series of challenges. The ultimate prize for the winning duo is £50,000.
The series is being produced by South Shore, the company behind Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams for the BBC and The Real Marigold Hotel.
At the same time, the BBC is running its own new competition format, Destination X, hosted by Rob Brydon, who has compared it to Race Across The World and The Traitors. The series features 13 contestants journeying through Europe on a bus with blacked-out windows, trying to deduce their location. The winner will secure £100,000.
As part of the format, players complete challenges to earn clues and, at the end of each episode, mark an X on a map to guess their whereabouts. The contestant whose guess is furthest from the true location is eliminated.
Rob told the BBC: "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."
Words: Simon Baines
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