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Didn't the Crystal Maze revival also suffer criticism because of the host mocking the format too? The couple episodes I tried to watch felt a bit like that, plus what seemed like a load of D-list celebrity specials again treating the whole thing like a joke.


As for further potential revivals what about Treasure Hunt?

It ended in 1989 and the brief 2002 revival was so out of place and lost in daytime BBC Two so I doubt it made that much of an impression either way. It has plenty going for it as a format - never really ever imitated so could look fresh, a race against the clock, showing off the UK's places of interest, potential for your local place of interest to be visited and with a strong engaging location host that the public want to see could work well.

Downsides are more to do with technological advancement and society changes since the the 80s. Would audio only communication work in an age of 5G video calls? Are helicopters too environmentally unfriendly? When the internet has the answer to anything, would using reference books be seen as twee? The 2002 revival used Encyclopaedia Britannica on CD-ROM but even that is old fashioned now. Are bookish middle-class and middle aged contestants the type of person the modern viewer wants to watch win a prize?