Losers of New Game Show Could Be Shot Out of Cannon

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To what extent are game show contestants willing to degrade themselves for $50,000? ABC is about to find out.

The Disney-owned network has just ordered 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show, in which contestants who don’t correctly answer a series of multiple-choice questions are ejected from the program via extreme methods.

Those methods, according to the network’s announcement, include “being flown away strapped to the wing of a biplane, shot out of a cannon, pushed off the top of a moving semi truck, dragged underwater by a one-ton anchor or yanked off a dock by a speed boat.”

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