[WillPS]

I enjoyed it! Staying true to the original format is what has helped this immensely, the same could not be said to recent ITV revivals.

Few niggles however. I’m not sure Bradley and Barney Walsh are the right hosts for it. It could have done with a female counterpart, probably more so paired with Barney than Bradley. Alex Scott springs to mind.

Sheffield Arena is noticeably smaller than the NIA in Birmingham. And you can tell, especially with Eliminator which now only has one trapeze instead of two. So it’s less of a challenge.

And I’m very happy they brought back the original theme, but less happy the original incidental music did not, replaced with generic remixes of old pop music. The energy and flow of the show did suffer a bit and it didn’t make it seem as exciting.

To demonstrate this, there was something I just HAD to do:

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Yes, the Eliminator in particular needs something resembling its original music back.