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XXS – Extra Extra Small (game show)

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XXS – Extra Extra Small
Production
Running time40 minutes
Production companyEndemol
Original release
Release2010 (2010)

XXS - Extra Extra Small is a television, physical and family game show created by Endemol Argentina and aired in many countries around the world, where contestants perform other everyday chores in a house built for a giant.[1] The format was first introduce during MIPCOM 2009.[2] The first episode was broadcast in Turkey 2010. It is recorded at Endemol's filming facility in Benavídez, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rules

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Three pint-sized families vie for cash prizes by seeing who can successfully complete a series of physical challenges. The game is played in a house where everything is 100 times bigger than the contestants, including a giant vacuum cleaner, a huge washing machine, an enormous television,[3] a cup have the size of a tanker truck, kitchen sink with the size of a semi-olympic pool,[4] a fan similar to an airplane propeller, and a spoon and fork as high as a two-story house.[5] A world in which everything found in the average home is suddenly enormous, even the most commonplace household task is dangerous as small accidents at home will turn into adventures,[6] the families will try to prevent a danger in each room and struggle with giant objects for completing the course in the quickest time in order to win the prize.[7]

In the show four timed rounds: a children's round in children room, a mother's round in kitchen, a father's round in the living room, and a family round in a giant washing machine within the laundry room.[8] The show pits families in competitions set in an oversized house that makes them look like mice, climbing giant sofas while using rock climbing techniques, dancing on oversized record players, competing against the clock in toy cars racing down a track,[9] navigate aboard a sponge or swimming in the sink water to fix a leaky pipe that threatens to flood the house,[10] inching across rolling pins over vats of chocolate milk and swimming through obstacles in a pool-sized washing machine.[11] The challenges may sound simple at first, like turning off a hairdryer, closing a water tap, dodge toy soldier bullets, cross a mountain high sneaker, unplug a sparking outlet before a fire breaks out,[12] battle treacherous hurricane winds in an effort to turn off a household fan, or finding a pin in a bowl of pasta, but when faced with gargantuan objects, contestants must find strength, speed, and creativity to succeed. In the final round, the fate of each family is left up to the fathers. Each dad is submerged into a giant washing machine where he must hold on as long as he can for buttons of their team's color while the increasing centrifugal force of the washing machine tests his strength.[13] As velocity increases, soap and water are released and the fathers must avoid being thrown out with the clothes while surviving dizzying spins until one of them manages to turn it off.

And as if that weren't enough, for every challenge that a family previously lost, a five-kilo weight is strapped to the dad's body. The family whose father holds on the longest wins the game.

International versions

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Country Name Host Network Air date
  Argentina [14] Extra Pequeño Paula Chaves & Darío Lopilato[15] El Trece May 16-July 4, 2011
  Brazil [16] Os Encolhidos[17] Fausto Silva & Caçulinha Rede Globo July 2010-March 4, 2011
  Chile [11] XXS Sergio Lagos[18] Canal 13 Cancelled
  China[19][20] 天哪！我们变小啦！
Tian Na!Wo Men Bian Xiao Le!
XXS-OMG We Became Smaller[21] 		Chen Chen & David Wu (American actor) & Tim Le & Zhu Zhen & Dashan Shanghai Media Group July 1-September 2, 2012
  Germany [22] XXS – Hilfe, wir werden geschrumpft! Johanna Klum & Bürger Lars Dietrich[23]& Wigald Boning[24] ZDFneo / KI.KA October 14, 2011
  Portugal[25] XXS Carolina Patrocínio & Pedro Miguel Ramos[26] SIC/SIC K March 14,- July 1, 2010
  Spain [27] XXS Pilar Rubio & Enrique Pérez Vergara[28] Cuatro December 25, 2011
  Turkey [29] XXS-Ekstra Ekstra Small
Extra Extra Small[30] 		Ebru Cündübeyoğlu[31] Star TV April 16,-July 11, 2010
  Ukraine [32] Сімейний розмір
Simeyny rozmir 		Elena Kravets & Dennis Manzhosov[33] Inter October 11-December 14, 2010

References

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  3. ^ "Pilar Rubio torna a la televisió amb un nou concurs, 'XXS'" [Pilar Rubio returns to television with a new competition, 'XXS']. Empordà (in Catalan). 25 November 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Star TV'den iddialı bir yarışma programı" [An ambitious competition program from Star TV]. Gazeteciler (in Turkish). 26 August 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Gigantskiye razmery poyavyatsya na "Intere"" Гигантские размеры появятся на "Интере" [Giant sizes will appear at Inter]. МедиаНяня (in Russian). 29 July 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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  13. ^ "Darío Lopilato y Paula Chaves, juntos" [Darío Lopilato and Paula Chaves, together]. infobae (in European Spanish). 7 November 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Extra pequeno" [Extra Small]. eltrece TV (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  15. ^ "Llega Extra Pequeño, para ponerle pilas a la noche del domingo" [Extra Small arrives, to put batteries into your Sunday night]. Clarín (in Spanish). 13 May 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  16. ^ do Faustao, Domingao. "Famílias Warmiling e Rocha encolhem, mas só uma leva a melhor - Os Encolhidos - Domingao do Faustao" [Warmiling and Rocha families shrink, but only one wins - The Shrunken]. Globo. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  17. ^ "Os Encolhidos" [The Shrunken]. Globo (in Portuguese).
  18. ^ Latrach, Paulina (9 February 2010). "Sergio Lagos conducirá programa de concursos XXS" [Sergio Lagos will host a game show]. La Tercera (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  19. ^ Roxborough, Scott (24 April 2012). "Endemol Wins Two Commissions From Chinese TV". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  20. ^ "Tiān nǎ! Wǒmen biàn xiǎole" 天哪！我们变小了 [Oh my gosh! we become smaller]. echannel (in Chinese). 31 March 2014. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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  22. ^ "XXS - Hilfe, wir werden geschrumpft!" [XXS - Help, we're getting shrunk!]. programm.ARD.de (in German). 1 January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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  25. ^ "XXS - O programa mais surpreendente da Tv portuguesa!" [XXS - The most surprising program on Portuguese TV!]. SAPO (in Portuguese). 13 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 March 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  26. ^ ""XXS" com Pedro Miguel Ramos e Carolina Patrocínio" [«XXS» with Pedro Miguel Ramos and Carolina Patrocínio]. SAPO Mag (in Portuguese). 17 March 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  27. ^ "XXS - Cuatro". Cuatro (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  28. ^ "Pilar Rubio y Flipy competirán con la Pantoja en Navidad" [Pilar Rubio and Flipy will compete with Pantoja at Christmas]. Las Provincias (in European Spanish). 22 December 2011.
  29. ^ "XXS - Extra Extra Small Yarışması Resmi Sitesi" [XXS - Extra Extra Small Contest Official Site]. XXS.com (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  30. ^ "Extra Extra Small Arşiv Videoları" [Extra Extra Small Video Archive]. Star TV Resmi İnternet Sitesi (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  31. ^ "Bu Evde Güliver gibiyim" [I Am Like Güliver in This House]. Gecce (in Turkish). 27 February 2010. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  32. ^ "Kompaniya "Endemol Arhentyna" znayshla sviy "rozmir"" Компанія "Ендемол Аргентина" знайшла свій "розмір" [The company "Endemol Argentina" has found its "size"]. Сімейний розмір (in Ukrainian). 27 July 2010. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  33. ^ ""Símeyniy rozmír" budut vesti aktery "Studii Kvartal – 95"" "Сімейний розмір" будут вести актеры "Студии Квартал – 95" [“Family Dimensions” will be hosted by the actors of “Studio Kvartal – 95"]. ProTV.UA - ТВ, технологии, телекоммуникации (in Ukrainian).
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