{"id":39462,"date":"2023-11-10T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1923508"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T10:42:54","slug":"007-road-to-a-million-review-bond-spin-off-has-a-licence-to-thrill","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/007-road-to-a-million-review-bond-spin-off-has-a-licence-to-thrill\/","title":{"rendered":"007: Road to a Million review \u2013 Bond spin-off has a licence to thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might be an offbeat choice for a companion series, but Prime Video’s competitive reality show is irresistibly fun. <\/p>

By Morgan Jeffery\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 10 November 2023 at 09:30 AM<\/p>

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<\/div> 4.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div>

It\u2019s fair to say that the announcement of 007: Road to a Million in March 2022 raised a few eyebrows, Roger Moore-style.<\/p>\n

It was inevitable that Amazon\u2019s earlier acquisition of MGM would lead to Bond spin-offs being developed for its Prime Video<\/a> streaming service, but few expected the first offering out of the gate to be an unscripted, reality competition series.<\/p>\n

Here, nine pairs of regular people are \u201cunleashed on an epic global adventure\u201d and must take on a set of physical challenges, before facing a string of brainteasers, inching their way closer towards winning a \u00a31 million jackpot with each correct answer. Get just one question wrong and they\u2019re eliminated from the contest.<\/p>\n

The decision to opt for a show like 007: Road to a Million over, say, a small-screen Felix Leiter series might smart all the more for Bond fans given that this show is the first slice of 007-related action we\u2019ve seen in over two years, and the only one we\u2019re likely to get for the foreseeable \u2013 over four years after principal photography wrapped on Daniel Craig\u2019s final outing No Time to Die<\/a>, we\u2019re still being told that the hunt for his successor hasn\u2019t \u201ceven begun\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That additional burden will doubtless count against 007: Road to a Million, which promises to transport ordinary people into the spectacular world of Ian Fleming\u2019s secret agent.<\/p>\n

In fact, the show\u2019s links to the franchise that allegedly inspired it can, at best, be described as loose \u2013 it originated as a concept for a generic adventure game show, with the Bond IP later being appended to the format to help sell it to audiences<\/a>, and it shows.<\/p>\n