Who’d be a travel show contestant? Long gone are the days of watching Joanna Lumley fab around the world, presenting documentaries in far-flung locales: these days, people want their exotic destinations with an extra frisson of tension. Five series of Race Across the World, which sees strangers circumnavigate the globe on a miniscule budget, have been runaway hits.
Now new BBC gambit Destination X tries to borrow some of that success.
