[3] The show was developed by Stellify Media, an independent Northern Irish production firm founded by Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy in spring 2014 and bankrolled by Sony Pictures Television,[2] who also filmed a pilot for Fox.
After being shot out of a catapult into a pit of foam, they traverse an obstacle course with eleven touchpoints; each touchpoint wins the player a prize, such as a television, cooking set, a coffee machine, a drone, and overseas trips including New York and Barcelona,[3] while missing one incurs a fine of 30 seconds.
The remaining three contestants gather three items from a spinning circuit, then ascend a small plastic mound with detachable handles.
[8] Upon broadcast, Mark Gibbings-Jones of The Guardian unfavourably compared the show to Ninja Warrior UK, and wrote that "the contestants aren't the only ones falling flat on their faces",[9] while Ian Hyland of The Daily Mirror wrote that both The Night Manager and Can't Touch This were examples of "how cuts have left BBC lurching between sublime and ridiculous".
[11] In January 2018, Toby Olubi, who had been a contestant on the show,[12] told PA Media that he had been "shot out of a cannon" on the programme, and described himself as a "human cannonball".