The Weakest Link is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two and BBC One. It was devised by Fintan Coyle and Cathy Dunning and developed for television by the BBC Entertainment Department. The game begins with a team of nine contestants, who take turns answering general knowledge questions within a time limit to create chains of nine correct answers in a row. At the end of each round, the players then vote one contestant, "the weakest link", out of the game. After two players are left, they play in a head-to-head penalty shootout format, with five questions asked to each contestant in turn, to determine the winner.
De Mol is a Belgian reality game show that originally aired from 6 December 1998 to 19 March 2000 and again from 19 January to 16 March 2003 on TV1 with Michiel Devlieger as host. A revival has aired since 1 February 2016 on VIER with Gilles De Coster as host. The show won the famous Rose d'Or award in 2000. The format has been licensed in 40 countries from all around the world.
The Challenge is a reality competition show on MTV that is a spin-off of two of the network's reality shows, The Real World and Road Rules. Premiering in 1998, it originally featured alumni from these two shows. Casting for The Challenge has slowly expanded to include contestants who debuted on The Challenge itself, alumni from other MTV franchises including Are You the One?, Ex on the Beach, Geordie Shore, siblings and friends, and from other non-MTV shows and competitions. The contestants compete against one another in various extreme challenges to avoid elimination. The winners of the final challenge win the competition and typically share a large cash prize. The Challenge is currently hosted by T. J. Lavin.
Weakest Link is an American television game show that made its debut in 2001. It is an adaptation of the British television series of the same name.
The Mole: The Next Betrayal is the second season of the American version of The Mole produced by Stone Stanley Entertainment. The second season featured a team of 14 players, one of whom was the Mole.
The Apprentice was an American reality television program that judged the business skills of a group of contestants. It ran in various formats across fifteen seasons on NBC from 2004 to 2017. The Apprentice was created by British television producer Mark Burnett, and co-produced with Donald Trump, who was the show's host for the first fourteen seasons. Billed as "The Ultimate Job Interview," seven of the show's seasons feature aspiring, but otherwise unknown, businesspeople who would vie for the show's prize, a one-year $250,000 starting contract to promote one of Donald Trump's properties. The show features 14 to 18 such business people who compete over the course of the season, with usually one contestant eliminated per episode. Contestants are split into two "corporations" (teams), with one member from each volunteering as a project manager on each new task. The corporations complete business-related tasks such as selling products, raising money for charity, or creating an advertising campaign, with one corporation selected as the winner based on objective measures and subjective opinions of the host and the host's advisors who monitor the teams' performance on tasks. The losing corporation attends a boardroom meeting with the show's host and their advisors to break down why they lost and determine who contributed the least to the team. Episodes ended with the host eliminating one contestant from the competition, with the words "You're fired!"
Wie is de Mol? is a Dutch adventure reality competition show. It is based on the Belgian show De Mol, the original version of the format created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT.
The first season of The Mole aired on ABC in 2001. It was produced by Stone Stanley Entertainment and was released to DVD by Eagle Rock Entertainment on March 8, 2005. The season was hosted by news reporter Anderson Cooper and featured American contestants; it was filmed mainly in France, Monaco, and Spain. Adapting the format of Belgian reality game show De Mol, many challenges and locations were inspired by their counterparts from De Mol's second season in Spain.
The fifth season of the American version of The Mole began airing on ABC on June 2, 2008, after being pushed back a week by ABC. Casting information was announced online.
Celebrity Mole: Hawaii is the third season of the American version of The Mole and aired from January 8 to February 12, 2003. It was filmed on the Big Island of Hawaii in October 2002. On December 17, 2002, a fire on the second floor of the Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles caused the offices of Stone Stanley Entertainment to be flooded with water from sprinklers and fire hoses. All of the tapes from the series were found soaked in 18 inches of water, but they were all recovered, dried out, and ultimately were unharmed.
Celebrity Mole: Yucatán is the fourth season of the American version of The Mole and aired from January 7 to February 18, 2004. It was filmed on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and based primarily at the Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret Resort. Filming was done in the fall of 2003.
The Mole is an Australian reality television show that aired on the Seven Network. It is based on other versions of the original Belgian TV series The Mole that have aired in numerous countries. The most recent season aired in 2013.
The Phone is an American reality television show of six episodes, based on the Dutch version of the same name. The show aired on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time on MTV.
Myyrä(English: The Mole) is Finnish reality television show based on Belgian reality show De Mol. The show is hosted by Roope Salminen, and first aired in 2019 on MTV3.
The sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole took place in various locations around Australia, and was hosted by Shura Taft.
The Chase is an American television quiz show adapted from the British program of the same name. It premiered on August 6, 2013, on the Game Show Network (GSN). It was hosted by Brooke Burns and featured Mark Labbett as the "chaser". A revival of the show premiered on January 7, 2021, on ABC. It is hosted by Sara Haines and initially featured as the chasers Jeopardy! champions James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter. Labbett returned as a chaser in June 2021, before stepping down in 2022 along with Jennings. In their place are Buzzy Cohen, Brandon Blackwell, and Victoria Groce.
The twenty-first season of the Dutch TV series Wie is de Mol? aired on 2 January 2021. This was the fourth season with Rik van de Westelaken as host. The location of the season was the Czech Republic. The candidates and the location were announced on 21 December 2020 in a special television episode of the aftershow Moltalk.
The sixth season of the American version of The Mole began airing on Netflix from October 7, 2022, after a fourteen-year hiatus and leaving its former network, ABC. The season was produced by Eureka Productions with a new host, Alex Wagner. The cast was revealed on 21 September 2022, with the season's location confirmed to be Australia.
The Traitors is an Australian reality television series broadcast on Network 10, based on the Dutch series De Verraders, which premiered on 16 October 2022.
The twenty-fourth season of the Dutch TV series Wie is de Mol? began on 6 January 2024. This was the seventh season with Rik van de Westelaken as host. The season was filmed in Mexico. The 8th season was also filmed in Mexico, making the 2024 season the third time the show revisits a country.
