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Crystal Maze honestly should've done much better... isn't it basically an Escape Room, a concept that seems to be pretty popular in recent years?

The point of an escape room is that it is an experience that a person experiences in real life. `Filming it would just make it another TV show. In fact this puts it into instagram/tiktok/YouTube territory.

TV should focus on the things that it's hard for average people to do in real life, like gameshows that have big set pieces like ninja warrior (its been licenced to water parks and indoor adventure parks but these are inspired by and don't fully recreate the show), gladiators and the like. I dare say gunge (the coloured commercial slime) worked because it was something different even if it was overused at the time, and its not something you have at home at your disposal (i.e. not foodstuffs).

With TV moving towards streaming, they won't need to schedule programmes like linear and this should mean fewer things are done but the result is better.