The Wave (2018 TV series)

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The Wave
Genre Game show [1]
Presented by Rylan Clark-Neal [1]
Starring Keri-anne Payne [2]
Composer Nick Foster
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Running time48 minutes
Production companyPrimal Media [3]
Original release
Network W [1]
Release15 January (2018-01-15) [4]  
19 March 2018 (2018-03-19)

The Wave is a British game show which premiered on 15 January 2018 until 19 March 2018, as a ten-part series on W. [5] It is hosted by Rylan Clark-Neal with Keri-anne Payne overseeing the contestants. [2] The concept of the show is that teams consisting of two members would enter the show together. One of the team members would be in the sea whilst the other will stay on land. The teammate in the sea will swim to pontoons to answer questions to win a cash prize. If they got an answer wrong, they would get weighed down by rocks. [6] [1]

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Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
115 January 201819 March 201810

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7. On BIG game show 'Im-poster', Kerri-Anne Payne was depicted by voice by impressionist Lizzie Stanford. This was used in the promotional trailer for the BIG series.