Cheesey Japanese style game show - early 90s

[StevieBee]

Can anyone remember this? Friday night show. British but made in the style of an over-the-top Japanese game show.

'Bet now!' was the phrase.

Cannot recall the name of it!

[Rng91]

Banzai?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_(TV_series)

[LARK F1 GTR]

Ahhh, Banzai!!!!

[Evercross]

Bring it back!!

Mr Shake Hand Man.

Lady One Question.

Brilliant!!!

[StevieBee]

Boom - that's the one!

Ta!

[Radec]

Loved Banzai

Lady one question being defeated by Graham Norton was hilarious

The Japanese are crazy when it comes to entertainment, they have some wacky gameshows.

I went through a phase of watching Japanese pranks on YouTube years ago.
Some of the stuff you'd never get away with here.

[parabolica]

Rng91 said:

Banzai?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_(TV_series)

There is a weird and wonderful collection of late 90s shows that were made by UK production companies but spoofed formats from other countries so well that you’d actually think they were imports. Banzai is a prime example, as was Euro Trash.

[Speedywurzel]

Didn’t the late great Clive James play snippets of this show on his excellent Sunday night show way back on ITV? Margarita Pracatan anyone!?

Edited by Speedywurzel on Sunday 22 September 17:48

[Beati Dogu]

Clive James featured the Japanese game show Endurance I seem to remember.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Holy moly, just had major flashback ‘BET NOW!!’

[Beati Dogu]

One game I remember: