OT: ABC summer filler - Japanese reality shows

I Survived A Japanese Game Show has begun shooting in Japan and will
premiere TUESDAY, JUNE 24 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) on ABC. This unscripted
reality/game show takes an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at 10
Americans - many of whom have never traveled outside the United States --
who are whisked away to Japan and compete in the ultimate Japanese game
show...with hilarious results. The final winner will take home $250,000.

Guiding the American players through their stay in Japan will be
Host/Interpreter Tony Sano (Spring Break in Japan, Kamen Rider: Dragon
Knight), an American actor who is fluent in Japanese; a house mother and
resident pot stirrer, Mamasan; and the witty Game Show Host Rome Kanda (Pink
Panther, Saturday Night Live), who leads the contestants through all of the
zany challenges.

http://abc.go.com/summer/isurvivedajapanesegame/index


Human cannonballs! Human pinballs! Crashes, smashes and mud splashes!
Twenty-four thrill-seekers will compete in the world's largest extreme
obstacle course designed to provide the most spills, face plants and
wipeouts ever seen on television, in Wipeout, a painfully funny new reality
series premiering Tuesday, June 24 8/7c on the ABC Television Network.

http://abc.go.com/summer/wipeout/index

(The only way this could be a more obvious clone of Takeshi's Castle / MXC
is if the hosts indulged in colonial Williamsburg cosplay).

Who knows - if these do well, maybe next year's summer fillers will include
something lifted from an anime's live action version?



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