Nightmare for BBC as viewers make the same complaint about new primetime show

BBC fans have been left raging about its latest primetime show, Destination X. Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon leads a series of contestants around the world in blacked-out coaches and helicopters, before they compete in a series of challenges to help them work out where they’ve ended up. Each week, contestants are led to a map room where they have to make their guesses, with the furthest away eliminated.

But viewers who watched the first episode last night (July 30) weren’t impressed – despite the success of the US version of the programme, presented by The Walking Dead actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. BBC fans turned out in force on social media to make the same complaint – that they found the show “boring”.

One X user tweeted: “This is really f***ing boring,” while another agreed: “Anyone else feeling a bit bored?” Another grumbled that they were “switching off” after “giving it 20 minutes”.

Somebody else said: “What a shame that the contestants go to all these lovely places and don’t even get to see them!”

“Pitched as The Traitors meets Race Across the World, ummm I don’t think so! Nowhere close,” another viewer said.

The show also didn’t impress critics, with The Guardian rating it just three out of five stars. The Telegraph rated it two out of five, claiming “the most exciting moment of Destination X is when someone breaks a fingernail”. The Evening Standard also gave it a mediocre three stars.

The Times called it a “convoluted mess”, writing: “The Traitors wannabe is as iffy as Rob Brydon’s blazer”.

It’s a disaster for the BBC, with a prize pot of £100,000 up for grabs – meaning it’s potentially wasted cash. The big-budget production was filmed across 32 days, with 190 crew members needing 7,000 hotel rooms in 30 different hotels across 11,000km of Europe.