Confusing 'high' concept new game show has me lost in France

Philip Cunnington on Destination X

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Watching the BBC's new expensive-looking reality game show Destination X (BBC1, Weds/Thurs, 9pm) could leave the viewer as discombobulated as the participants on their blacked-out tour bus.

It's what you would call a 'high-concept' game show - 10 people are loaded on board a tour-bus with frosted windows, like a wheeled bathroom.

Periodically, the contestants are herded off the bus wearing hi-tech blindfolds - X Goggles - which are momentarily cleared to allow them a glance at their surroundings.

Add in some games which give them extra clues, and at the end of each episode they have to make a guess - educated or otherwise - at where the tour-bus has ended up.

The person who's guess is furthest away from the actual location gets kicked off and apparently left in a lay-by somewhere in Europe. The remaining contestants then head off to a new destination.

Clearly designed to cash in on the BBC's massive hit The Traitors, Destination X looks at first glance like a combination of Claudia Winkleman's devilishly clever back-stabathon and Wish You Were Here.