Shane Richie hosts this BBC One studio contest that flips the usual game-show grammar: every stunt is recorded at 1,000 fps and the audience sees the slowed-down version first, the blink-and-miss-it reality only afterwards. Two trios, colour-coded purple and orange, trade head-to-head duels, pair battles and a lightning buzzer quiz until one side hits ten points and sends a single member onto a three-metre podium for the Moneyball finale. There, thirty foam balls—fifteen green, fifteen red—are cannon-fired at 70 mph; the player must tag greens (+1) and dodge reds (–1) while staying on the platform to secure £10,000, then decide whether to leap for a solitary golden ball that doubles the money or erases it.
Created by Adam Adler after Channel 4 passed on the 2011 pilot, the 6×45 min run was shot at Fountain Studios, Wembley, in spring 2013 and aired from January to March 2014. Motion-tracking graphics stick real-time stats to bodies mid-air, while wire-frame animations explain each new torture: crawling through sugar-glass to slap a button, plucking one yellow can from a collapsing tower, or catching designated ping-pong balls in a hail of white. Every challenge is calibrated to last under half a second in real time, stretching to four seconds on screen so viewers can dissect the winner’s anticipatory twitch.
Production Details
BBC One / 1 Season / 3 Episodes / 2006 - Present
Producer(s): Hannah Dodson
Main Cast
Ryo Karato as 影山鑑
Miku Ishida as ももそ
Nobuyuki Ishida as 影山恭太郎
Yûko Itô as 緋呂亜佐美/日向神優
Hitomi Miwa as 猪砂雅
Ryûki Kitaoka as 轡
Kazuyoshi Ozawa as 矢尻祐一郎
