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Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC) is an American sports comedy television program that aired on TNN/Spike TV from April 19, 2003 to February 9, 2007. It re-purposes footage from the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, which originally aired in Japan from 1986 to 1990. The re-purposed MXC created a completely new premise, storyline, and characters, with two teams competing against each other à la a typical team sports broadcast and players trying to win points for their teams by surviving through different challenges. In the original program the Count and his underlings would follow the progress of the players as they moved through the course. In the re-purpose, Count Takeshi became veteran network announcer Vic Romano and the Count's flunky became young upstart Kenny Blankenship.