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The format

There are a total of 12 acts. In each episode, six acts compete with one of them being the winner from the previous episode. At the end of each episode the studio audience appears to decide which act was the nerviest, or had the biggest 'Balls of Steel' by voting on a keypad, however, many of the appeared winners were recorded separate from the show, not winning the game by voters.

The acts

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The winners

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Massive Balls of Steel

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International broadcasting

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Criticisms

This show has been criticised by many as using child-like humour for cheap laughs.^{[citation needed]} In particular it tries to portray anti-social behaviour as humorous. For example, the segment Big Stranger Rodeo is a hidden camera segment where a person has to ride on a stranger's back for as long as possible. It is not known if this segment was staged but it can be easily be replicated by minors. It has also been criticised for promoting happy slapping^{[citation needed]}, despite there being no form of happy slapping involved in the show. Happy slapping is a fad in which an unsuspecting victim is attacked while an accomplice records the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone). ...

Even before it was broadcast, Balls of Steel was given an enormous amount of publicity during the London premiere for the film War of the Worlds. Its leading man Tom Cruise was squirted with a water pistol disguised as a microphone as part of one of the programme's various stunts or practical jokes. Cruise's reaction was not as excessive as that of Sharon Osbourne in an identical stunt several weeks before; she reacted by throwing a bucket of water over one of the team's camera men, ruining the camera. War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction disaster film based on H. G. Wells original novel starring Tom Cruise. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Sharon Rachel Osbourne (née Levy, previously Arden; born 9 October 1952) is an English music manager and promoter, television personality and presenter. ...

Others who have been attacked include Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden.^[1]. Sveriges Television, where the Swedish version Ballar av stål was going to air, decided to cancel the show after massive criticism against it.^[2] John Fredrik Reinfeldt (IPA: ) (born 4 August 1965, in Österhaninge) is the current Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party (Swedish: ). A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983, and by 1992 had risen to the rank of chairman, a... The Prime Minister (Swedish: , literally Minister of State) is the head of government in Sweden. ... Sveriges Television (SVT) is a national publicly-funded television broadcaster based in Sweden. ...

The programme returned for a further series in 2007, for which its makers appealed for contestants for a pilot quiz show on an established quiz site. At least one participant rumbled the deceit almost immediately during filming on 10 June 2006, but despite his queries the makers refused to admit that the quiz was a hoax until the "broadcast" was over. Series 3 returned to Channel 4 on 21 March 2008. is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

1. ^ The Local on 23 May, 2007
2. ^ Dagens Nyheter on June 2, 2007

External links

• Balls of Steel at Channel4.com