Trivia / Wipeout (2008)

• Bad Export for You: The Nine Network helped get the show a local fanbase in Australia, to the point where even an episode of the Australian version was aired as part of the second season. Sadly, it seemed like the network wasn’t happy that the series went under a major Retool in the fourth season, and thus stopped airing the show and started airing the UK version, Total Wipeout as it had not made an Australian TV debut. Episodes following the retool debuted on Foxtel instead. Even when 7mate picked up syndication rights to the American version, they didn’t go beyond the retool.
• The Cast Showoff: In "Ballsy Gets a Hard Hat", Kenny gets a moment to show off his juggling skills.
• Dueling Shows: It later had to compete with American Ninja Warrior, a Foreign Remake of the Japanese Sasuke competitions which started out on the struggling G4TV with reruns on NBC, before moving to NBC full-time in 2014, the year Wipeout was quietly cancelled. The proposed Wipeout Extreme reboot in 2015 seemed to be a direct response to the more serious, athletics-based competition of Ninja Warrior, but never made it to air.
• DVD Commentary: The official Wipeout Twitter account provides a director's commentary of the night's episode. This commentary is also available while watching episodes on the official site.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: A lot of the original episodes from the UK version, Total Wipeout, are very difficult to find as the show stopped airing on TV after a while. Youtube uploads also started getting taken down after the Freddy & Paddy Takeover, a shorter version of the show narrated by Freddy Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, started airing ten years later.

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