Balls of Steel | |
---|---|
Genre | Comedy Game show |
Presented by | Mark Dolan |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 19 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 50 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company(s) | Objective Productions |
Distributor | All3Media |
Release | |
Original network | Channel 4 |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Original release | 19 August 2005 | – 25 April 2008
Balls of Steel was a British comedy game show hosted by Mark Dolan. Dolan's special guests would perform stunts and hold their nerve during hidden camera set-ups in the presence of celebrities or the British public.
Massive Balls of Steel, the spin-off series to Balls of Steel was broadcast on E4, showing highlights of the show.
There were a total of 12 acts. In each episode, six acts competed with one of them being the winner from the previous episode. At the end of each episode the studio audience had to decide which act had the biggest 'Balls of Steel' by voting on a keypad. The Balls of Steel format is distributed internationally by DRG.
It aired on The Comedy Channel in Australia in 2011 and 2013 and in the past, has also been shown on the Nine Network. In Latin America, it is broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television, in New Zealand on C4, in Germany on RTL II, in Denmark on TV 2 Zulu, in Portugal on SIC Radical, Norway on TV2 Zebra, in Sweden on Kanal 5, in Poland on TVN, in the Netherlands on RTL 5, and in Russia on 2x2.