''101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow'' is a British
game show
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produced by Initial (a
subsidiary
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of
Endemol UK
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) for the BBC hosted by
Steve Jones and
Nemone
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. On each episode, eight contestants compete for a £10,000 prize by picking the correct answers to general knowledge questions, all the while standing on a tower configured for various stunts. Competitors who pick incorrect answers are eliminated from the show in a variety of different ways, usually involving a drop into a large pool of water at the base of the tower. The show made its debut on
BBC One
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on 10 July 2010 and ended on 28 August 2010. An
American version hosted by
Jeff Sutphen
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premiered on
ABC
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on 21 June 2011.
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Format
The show's production company, Endemol
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, describes the show as "the play-along fun of a glitzy, Saturday night quiz with the full-on adrenaline rush of an extreme stunt show."[ Each episode features eight contestants, with a mix of sexes, ages and backgrounds, competing to be the winner of the £10,000 prize in the UK version (''$50,000 in the US version'').][ Contestants are reduced one by one in the first four rounds, attempting to guess the correct answers to a selection of multiple-choice questions. The contestant who chooses the wrong answer will leave the show in spectacular fashion, in one of the ''101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow.'' At any time during the first four rounds, a buzzer could sound, which announces the start of the ''Emergency Exit'' round. In this round, contestants are asked a series of questions at random, with the first contestant to give a wrong answer being eliminated. The ''Emergency Exit'' round is not used in either the US or Italian versions. In the final round, only three contestants remain (''four contestants in the US version''), who have to answer one last question in an attempt to win the jackpot prize.
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Production
The show was created jointly by Endemol USA and Endemol UK. It was first produced by the UK division of Endemol
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. Like its Saturday night stablemate, ''
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, Argentina. Generally, most of the programme is recorded outside, however, studio segments are recorded in a monolithic purpose-built tall tower, located above the 'exits.'