| Total Wipeout | |
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| Also known as | Winter Wipeout (2011–12) Total Wipeout: Freddie and Paddy Takeover (2020) |
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Matt Kunitz Scott Larsen |
| Directed by | Richard Valentine |
| Presented by | Richard Hammond Amanda Byram |
| Narrated by | Richard Hammond Freddie Flintoff Paddy McGuinness |
| Composer | Marc Sylvan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 5 (Normal series) 1 (Winter Wipeout) 1 (Total Wipeout: Freddie and Paddy Takeover) |
| No. of episodes | 57 (Normal series) 12 (Winter Wipeout) 6 (Total Wipeout: Freddie and Paddy Takeover) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Andrew Norgate Andy Rowe (Winter Wipeout) |
| Production locations | Benavidez, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Running time | 60 minutes 30 minutes (TW Fast Forward) 40 minutes (Total Wipeout: Freddie and Paddy Takeover) |
| Production company | Initial |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 3 January 2009 – 31 December 2012 |
| Release | 8 August – 12 September 2020 |
| Related | |
| Wipeout Ninja Warrior UK Cannonball | |
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Total Wipeout is a British game show hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram which first aired on the BBC on 3 January 2009. In each episode, contestants competed in a series of challenges in an attempt to win £10,000. These challenges were based in large pools of water or mud and generally involved large assault courses that contestants had to cross. These were gradually eliminated over four rounds until one contestant remained, who won a £10,000 cash prize, except for the “Celebrity Specials,” in which the money was donated to the winner’s chosen charity.
Total Wipeout was a licensed version of Wipeout, the Endemol show that originated in the United States in 2008, with the name slightly altered to avoid confusion with the BBC version of the earlier game show of the same name. The show originally ran for six series, including a special winter-themed series, from 3 January 2009 until 31 December 2012. In the summer of 2020, Top Gear presenters Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness hosted a six-episode best-of series, featuring the presenters narrating shortened episodes of the show, called Total Wipeout: Freddie and Paddy Takeover.[1]
- ^ West, Amy (27 May 2020). "Total Wipeout returning with Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff as hosts". Digital Spy. Retrieved 27 May 2020.