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Team based game show
Fort Boyard is a strange sort of show and I was never really sure of the point of it. You can catch it currently on cable channel Challenge TV.
It is rather similar to the Crystal Maze in that a team of people compete together to complete as many tasks as possible in a real fort which apparently is located off the coast of France. The teams all seem to be made up of fairly buff team members ho tend to wear lyrcra outfits as if they all belong to the same gym, the presenter is Melinda Messinger who is a former page three girl and former Eastender Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den appears as the evil controller of the castle who describes what task they have to complete. Melinda job seems tobe to shout encouragement to the teams and run about providing the camera with lots of bouncing boob shots.
The tasks the teams have to complete asr a mix of strength, agility and intelligence tasks and involve the recovery of an item from the room.
I do like the fact that the tasks are quite varied but this is a strange show that never really caught my attention as it sort of seemed a bit pointless. They do make use of the castle features mind with some tasks involving the contestants being dangled from the turrets down the castle walls and the views look pretty good as well.
Overall not as good and no where near as funny as Takeshi Castle which is much better to watch although it is marginally better than the Crystal Maze as the bolke who presented that was really annoying.