[Neil Jones]

I've spotted Takeshi's Castle on Prime and I think this is a repackaging of the reboot version from Japan last year that they've decided needs a UK voiceover in the guise of new commentators Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis - and its marked as an Amazon Original just for said commentary, though in fairness Challenge did the same thing so...

This is interesting because instead of hacking away at the source material like Challenge did, Amazon have presented this pretty much clean with the original Japanese texts/graphics/presentation and the impression seems to be a lot of former contestants (from both Sasuke and the original Takeshi's Castle) have returned to make a hash of things in the same way they made a hash of things first time round, but there are a few new innovations - some new games, GoPros on helmets, blatant advances in health and safety that require buoyancy aids for water based events, thicker looking helmets and a whole bunch of blatant green screen that tries not to pretend its green screen...

However this reboot is closer to the original show (which is actually a lot slower pace wise than the Challenge version would have you believe it was, which made everybody look suicidal and charged into games like a bull into a china shop) but otherwise seems a semi-decent reboot to my mind