For the holidays, M6 is launching “Destination X” its investigation and adventure game

TELEVISION – If you are an aficionado of adventure type shows Beijing Express, The Island, Fort Boyard or Koh-Lanta, take out the popcorn. A new type of adventure will arrive on M6, and it will be on December 28 in prime time, the channel announced this Tuesday, December 5.

Between fiction and adventure game, Destination X will take ten candidates (salespeople, entrepreneurs, actors, psychologist, mental trainer or even guest house manager) on a road trip across Europe. The objective of this trip? Find out where they are located on the continent. The particularity of the game is the candidates called ” The passengers “ have, in fact, no idea where they are.

Passengers aged 25 to 64 will travel across Europe for a journey of approximately one month. On board of « BUS X »an imposing truck cut off from the world, participants will have to redouble their effort by using their five senses and their culture to answer the famous question ” where are they ? »

Here it is impossible to admire the landscape, each time they will only discover a small part of the place where they are. The goal of the game is to find their location at each stage until the final destination.

To help each other, they will also participate in games on the ground to collect clues. Events that combine culture and sport (often extreme) in teams or individuals. But even if the atmosphere is intended to be friendly, they must not forget that the adventure is above all played solo.

At the end of each episode, the elderly candidates will have to position their X on the map. The one who makes the proposal furthest from the group’s real position will leave the adventure. The winner of the show will win the sum of 50,000 euros.

A face known to the public in animation

Destination X is adapted from a Flemish show which enjoyed great success when it was broadcast in Belgium on the Belgian channel VTM. A success which pushed six countries including France to adapt the game internationally. For this French version, the show has undergone some modifications, notably on the route plan.

If when hearing “adventure around the world”, many think of the master of the format, Stéphane Rotenberg, iconic host of Beijing Expressthe production chose a new face to embody Destination X. It’s Philippe Bas, actor (Profiling), who will animate this new game. Accustomed to action series, adventure is an area with which he is familiar. During the presentation conference of Destination X which HuffPost attended on Wednesday, November 22, the latter called the game “ daring ».

Viewers will also have to investigate

Unlike other adventure shows, like Koh-Lanta or Beijing Express, here the viewers will not be taken into the confidence. Even if they will be able to observe more of the landscape, the location of the group will not be revealed to them.

So, from their sofa, viewers will have to keep their eyes peeled throughout the show to find out. Before the show ends, viewers will be able to play on 6play and suggest a location.

As a result, two plane tickets can be won each evening. And for those who have found the final destination, the production promises an even more incredible journey.

Season 1 of Destination X was filmed in September, for 28 days. It will therefore be broadcast every Thursday evening from December 28.

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