The Time It Takes

• 2018 • 35 min • English • BBC One • Ended

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The only quiz in the world where the contestants decide how much time they have to answer the questions...

What takes longer - unwrapping every Werther's Original in a family pack, completing a Rubik's cube underwater or deflating an air bed and putting it back into its original box?

These are the kinds of scenarios the contestants must choose from as timers on BBC One's Saturday teatime gameshow, The Time It Takes. The challenger who gets the most questions right in their given timescale will be one step closer to winning a dream holiday. But do not fret dear viewers, all is not completely lost for the player with the lowest score, as they will receive a very special The Time It Takes tea-towel before leaving the show.

Seasons

Episode 1

Aired Nov 3, 2018

Contestants choose from a list of timers, and they try to give as many right answers as possible while the referee, the brilliant Alison Hammond, strains baked beans through a pair of tights, introduces three dogs using a stair lift and invites a mystery celebrity to dissolves bath bombs in lemonade.

35 min

Episode 2

Aired Nov 10, 2018

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions by choosing from a list of timers.

35 min

Episode 3

Aired Nov 17, 2018

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions. Referee Alison Hammond presides over a hilarious choice of timers that include shaving a toy horse with a beard trimmer and Ainsley Harriott moving a ball the length of a football pitch using a leaf blower. Can the contestants choose the longest timer and go on to win a holiday?

35 min

Episode 4

Aired Nov 24, 2018

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions. Referee Alison Hammond presides over a hilarious choice of timers that include butter being melted through a sieve using a hairdryer, a baby duck trying to climb some steps and a child's shoe being filled with custard using a turkey baster.

35 min

Episode 5

Aired Dec 1, 2018

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions. Referee Alison Hammond presides over a hilarious choice of timers that include filling a cat bowl with milk squeezed through the fingers of a pair of rubber gloves, and Kimberley Wyatt doing a three-point turn in a tractor.

35 min

Episode 6

Aired Jan 12, 2019

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions by choosing from a list of timers.

35 min

Episode 7

Aired Jan 19, 2019

Game show hosted by Joe Lycett in which the contestants decide how long they have to answer the questions by choosing from a list of timers.

35 min

Episode 8

Aired Feb 2, 2019

Funnyman Joe Lycett presents the comedy quiz where contestants hope to choose the longest 'timers' so they can answer as many questions as possible and win the dream holiday at the end of the show.Referee Alison Hammond keeps order as the entertaining chaos unfolds.Find out how long it takes to burst balloons by filling them with squirty cream, to roll a sprout the length of a cricket wicket using just your nose and for a mystery celebrity to peel themselves out of a wet suit.

35 min