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I am going to partially disagree with the original review of this show. This was NOT a remake of "Candid Camera" which had its more disturbing & more thought provoking moments, this was purely a fun show. And fun it most certainly was for the first two series, with pleasant presenters and some interesting and amusing ideas, involving unsuspecting members of the public getting involved in bizarre but believable situations. And yes it did easily triumph in the ratings war over the BBC's outdated "Generation Game".

The problem was that there are only so many scenarios that can be used before the show either repeats itself, or just becomes too extreme. And that is what happened here, I suggest watching the first two series but not the subsequent three when the show became a parody of itself.

And as for a parody, in 1982 Not the Nine O Clock News featured a bad taste spoof of "Game For a Laugh". Considered amusing at the time, in retrospect the same is seen as smug middle class pseudo intellectuals mocking the simpler tastes of the proletariat. Its probably fair to say that in the new twenties "Game For a Laugh" is the more fondly remembered.

This is not the dull 2004 film which tried to present a stirring legend as believable history. Nor is it the politically correct TV series of the late naughties. This is the story of King Arthur as imagined by Sir Thomas Malory, its a C20 version of a C15 novel. No duck outs, every legendary figure is included as Malory intended them to be. One point deduction for leaving out the pivotal scene where Sir Gawain stupidly ties to kill the Lady of the Lake, but apart from that anybody familiar with the legend will not be disappointed.

If you can watch the final scene of the full version of this film without shedding a manly tear, you are either not human, or you are my former boss.

Sir Thomas Malory would have approved.