The Getaway Car
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Dermot O'Leary |
| Starring | The Stig |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Location(s) | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 16 January – 3 September 2016 |
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The Getaway Car is a British game show that has aired on BBC One from 16 January to 3 September 2016. It is hosted by Dermot O'Leary and is themed around motoring; it also features the character The Stig from the BBC car show Top Gear, as well as supporting characters the Red Stig and Blue Stig, described as The Stig's adolescent nephews.
The show's initial commission was for twelve hour-long episodes and made by Charlotte Moore, the controller for BBC One and Mark Linsey, the controller of entertainment commissioning. It was executive produced by Andy Rowe, series produced by Emma Taylor and its head of format, Clare Pizey, oversaw proceedings. This initial series is hosted by Dermot O'Leary, with assistance from the anonymous racing driver character The Stig, who had previously featured on BBC Two's motoring show Top Gear.
In each episode, five teams of two contestants each compete in three rounds of car based competition, which reduces the field down to a final couple, who in the final round try to win as much money as possible by racing the Getaway Car against The Stig. The contest is pitched as much as a test of the relationship of the couple as it is of their driving ability.
Speaking on the 8 January 2016 episode of the BBC's The One Show, O'Leary described the show as "Total Wipeout behind the wheel of a car meets Gogglebox - in the same way that when you watch Gogglebox, you see what people are like in their front room", "you get couples who supposedly love each other but you put them behind the wheel of a car and they speak to each other in the most intolerable way". One Show presenter Rory Bremner described it as "Mr & Mrs meets Top Gear meets The Chase"
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