Beat the Star is a British game show airing on television network ITV.

[1] The games include sports contests such as climbing, motorsport and ice hockey, puzzles and various other challenges.

[2] The show notably features several highly unusual challenges, including using a saw to cut a large log, dropping a pea into a bottle from a height of 1 metre, hammering nails into a piece of wood, and chopping a large sausage.

[4] Members of the studio audience can win €500 or one of 20 tickets for German Schlag den Raab.

Most noticeably, the UK show features a different celebrity player each week, is not broadcast live and lasts 75 minutes with 7 or 8 scheduled games (though remaining games are not played if the result is decided early).

In Germany, Schlag den Raab starts at 20:15 on Saturdays with a variable running time of at least four hours, with up to 15 individual games.