TV review: Challenge Anneka — she doesn't do much sprinting but you know the dogs are going to get their new kennels
Challenge Anneka: fine nostalgia for a Brit audience, but lightning doesn't strike twice
with Anneka Rice in the 1980s was all about posh energy. She was flustered, up against the clock, mildly pissed off with the working class oiks back in the studio who were telling Anneka what to do, and her in a helicopter. There was jeopardy too — the oiks needed her to find the treasure before the time was up, because this was the 1980s and the only way to make money was to win it on a TV show.
It was TV for all the family, especially the dads, who got to watch Anneka sprinting out of a chopper in a tight yellow jumpsuit. It spun off to in the late 1980s, where Anneka would help a lot of people with a community-based project, rather than a couple of contestants in a studio. That much-loved show ended almost 30 years ago — and now it’s back on Channel 5.
