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Sadly, there has been no revival of this show...it's the same old footage from the 1980's being rehashed and repeated again and again.

I guess thats the cheap way these new cable channels do things these days...i.e. they have no money to spend...so rather than going to the expense of creating their own programming...it's a lot cheaper just to buy some old footage and then get a couple of idiot unfunny commentators to overdub english commentary to it....and thats hardly original either....cos Mystery Science Theater 3K have been re-hashing old movies in that style for years.

FYI...the only "new" show that has been spawned from Takeshi's castle...is the Spanish gameshow called GRAND PRIX...which is on the air at this time...cos they have taken exact same games from Takeshi's castle (ie. the giant logs over the water game) and used those same props in their gameshow.

....so if you wish to see a modern rendering of those same games...tune into the TVE channel from Spain to see the GRAND PRIX gameshow each week. TVE is available on all european satellites and aired in the usa on the dish network system.

mk

ps...I should add, that GRAND PRIX follows the same format as the French gameshow INTERVILLES...and likewise the UK's "It's a knockout", and European renderings of "Jeux San Frontieres" or Germany's TELEMATCH show....they are all inter-related.