Mark Durden-Smith fronts this short-lived ITV summer filler in which five contestants shove coloured pucks across a perspex ice rink while Uriah Rennie, kitted out like a football referee, glares at stopwatches and measures millimetres. Each episode runs four timed rounds: smash clusters of blue discs out of a ring, land on concentric point zones, obliterate triangular shards, then go head-to-head by parking sliders inside a centre circle. The lone survivor enters a 60-second quick-fire final, earning one puck per correct answer and aiming at rings worth £500 to £10,000, but overshooting wipes the prize and running out of pucks forfeits everything above £1,000.
Joel Golby in The Guardian called the show "a game someone's dad invented and forces them to play, every Christmas" and praised Durden-Smith’s "genuine lack of personality" as the perfect foil to Rennie’s thousand-yard stare. ITV consigned the format to the deep freeze on 11 January 2016, confirming no second series after ten episodes had averaged fewer than a million viewers in an August afternoon slot.
Production Details
ITV / 1 Season / 10 Episodes / 2015
Main Cast
