BBC Axe Total Wipeout: Richard Hammond And Amanda Byram Hilariously Out Of A Job

Auntie BBC has announced that she's going to axe the gameshow Total Wipeout after three years on air… which is obviously hilarious because this means Richard Hammond won't be on TV quite so much and Amanda Byam is out of a job completely!

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Of course, watching people fall over is always funny, but the BBC got Total Wipeout wrong. Mainly because the presenters sucked and they missed a vital ingredient out… and we're going to tell you exactly what that is.

Gameshows based around people falling over always work best when they come from Japan. It really is as simple as that. For a period, everyone enjoyed watching Hole In The Wall online, and the BBC caught wind of it and turned it into something starring celebrities and Dale Winton. It was truly awful. It lost that manic element. It was no longer confusing and funny.

Takeshi's Castle is another example of an insane Japanese show that served well in the schedule. The only thing spoiling our enjoyment was Craig Charles' dreadful narration. Takeshi's Castle would've been much, much better if Challenge aired it with the original Japanese voiceover.

We like to be bewildered. We like to laugh at normal people (non-celebrities) falling over. We laugh with them, not at them.

And so, when the Beeb got their hands on Total Wipeout, we all got to chortle at care workers, teachers, retired lollipop ladies and builders falling off things in super slo-mo. However, the whole thing was hugely blighted by the fact that, hosting the whole thing, were two people who sneered at those who took part.

In Richard Hammond, we had one of the smuggest individuals on planet Earth and in Amanda Byram, we had someone mocking them from the sidelines. A bit rich seeing as she willingly took Patrick Keilty's penis inside her.

To level things a little, we The General Public, can now sneer back because, not only has she lost her main TV gig, she's lost the job that was the cause of her split from her fiancé Craig McMullen. That's right, earlier this year, Byram split with her beau because of the pressures of being away filming the show in Argentina.

In a statement, the BBC said:

"After four very successful series of Total Wipeout – and one series of Winter Wipeout – the BBC has taken the decision that the next series, due to transmit later this year, will be the last"

What the BBC inevitably thought was, 'we're not very good at making trashy television – we just always cock it up. So from now, we'll leave it to digital channels and… oh bollocks… we've still got The Voice haven't we? Shit.'

Meanwhile, everyone else watches Take Me Out and reruns of Bullseye.