June 24th - Wipeout

Today the TV show Wipeout aired its first episode in 2008. Wipeout is an American obstacle course competition game show known for being quite slapstick. It's a series that is based around obstacle courses held over water, so people regularly get soaked. The show takes inspiration from japanese game shows, like Takeshi's Castle (which I've mentioned before) and Ninja Warrior, which I plan to talk about later. The thing is, it was too close to its predecessors for Tokyo Broadcasting System's liking, and they took Wipeout’s creators to court. They ended up settling privately without a trial, so we probably won't know what happened there until so far in the future nobody will care anymore.