Tuesdays, 9:15pm
Channel 4
Six youths who haven’t travelled are paired up with six elderly people who want to prove that age is but a number for a treasure hunt around Japan, where the pairs must look at things closely to answer observational questions to stay in the competition and hopefully win a £50,000 prize. Will our unlikely pairs get on or will we find they’re… not?
Alright, the premise gives quite big “we’ve got Race Across the World at home” energy but Japan’s a great location for this sort of thing and as Race Across the World regularly proves, watching inexperienced and older travellers can both be a great source of entertainment. Let us know what you think in the comments.
This was nice. It was gentle. It was… a bit boring sadly, not much grit in the first episode, although there is a promise that some might develop. The pensioners are way more entertaining than the kids, obviously.
You know when you went on a school trip and had to do a quiz/test afterwards? It feels like a television version of that.
Also enjoyed that Ralf Little kept banging on about the prize and the threat of elimination, for all the older viewers presumably.
Just over 800k overnight for episode 1 I’m told, which is way up on what The Inheritance was getting after Bake Off.
630k for ep 2 apparently – have to say it’s been demoted pretty quickly to “if we need something to watch over dinner” status.
The format is wafer thin but refreshing to see such a show where they’ve cast pairs that’ll generally get on. It’s a bit daytime though really.
Broadcast suggesting this is C4’s most successful reality launch since 2023, the first one did a 1.28m Thinkbox figure, 143k in A16-34.
It does seem that some tasks are easier than others in this show which doesn’t seem complete fair.