Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge

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Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge
Genre	Children's adventure game show
Based on	Fort Boyard by Jacques Antoine
Presented by	Laura Hamilton Geno Segers Andy Akinwolere
Theme music composer	Paul Farrer
Country of origin	United States (Series 1–2) United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	50 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Nigel Pickard Ged Allen Pierre Godde
Producer	Steve Pinhay
Production locations	Fort Boyard, France
Running time	20 minutes per episode (approx.) (Series 1–2) 1 hour per episode (approx.) (including adverts) (Series 3–5)
Production companies	Adventure Line Productions The Foundation
Original release
Network	Disney XD (USA) CITV (UK)
Release	1 January 2012 (2012-01-01) – 17 December 2014 (2014-12-17)
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Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge is a children's game show, based on the French show Fort Boyard, which aired on both CITV and Disney XD. The show is a challenge game where six different "fearless" teams of teenagers battle-to-the-finish to win the "Ultimate Challenge" and become the "Ultimate Conquerors Of The Fort". The show is a revived and updated version of the original format, broadcast in the UK from 1998 to 2003.

While being a commission from CITV in the UK, the first two series were produced as a British-American co-production with Disney XD, who held worldwide pay rights to the series outside France and Nordic territories,^[1] and was co-presented by Geno Segers and Laura Hamilton. The series initially started its run in the United States in series 1 / 2 on 17 October 2011^[2] to 27 January 2012 in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it premiered on New Year's Day 2012 In the United Kingdom. After the series was renewed for a third series in June 2012,^[3] the series became solely a British production, with Geno Segers being replaced with Andy Akinwolere as co-presenter.^[4] The third series began on 8 December 2012 and was simulcast on the ITV network. The fourth series began airing on 20 October 2013 and the fifth series began airing on 15 October 2014. The series ended after all 5 series / seasons on 17 December 2014.