Fort Boyard (1998)

Country

United Kingdom

Length

5 seasons, 73 episodes

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Teams compete in physical and mental challenges inside a fortress on an island. They aim to collect keys and solve puzzles to win a treasure.

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What happens

Fort Boyard is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show of the same name that was first broadcast in 1990. The British version aired for five series, spanning from 16 October 1998 to 3 December 2003. The first four series were broadcast on Channel 5, concluding in December 2001. Challenge TV then revived the show for a fifth series in 2003 with a ten-part documentary series, Fort Boyard: Takes On The World, broadcast in October 2004. It was originally presented by Melinda Messenger and starred Leslie Grantham as Boyard, and Geoffrey Bayldon as The Professor; they were replaced by Jodie Penfold, Christopher Ellison and Tom Baker as Captain Baker for the Challenge TV version. Fort Boyard later returned to UK television in January 2012 under a new format aired on children's channel CITV, Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge. This version ended in December 2014 after five series, the first two of which were co-produced with Disney XD in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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