American television is testing the American endurance, the tolerance and taste for Japanese game shows of its viewers. ABC’s “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” which premiered Tuesday, June 24, performed well and pulled in 8 million viewers. It was the winner in the competition with Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” which brought in front of the TV 7.7 million viewers.

But ABC’s “Wipeout,” a show which is, according to its producers, “90 percent ‘Fear Factor’-inspired, 10 percent Japanese game show,” marked the network’s strongest postseason debut since 2005’s “Brat Camp,” according to Nielsen Media data issued Wednesday, Reuters noted. In each episode, contestants compete for a $50,000 prize by running a course filled with obstacles that include things called Topple Tower, Sucker Punch, or Giant Balls designed to knock them into mud pits and spin them until they are dizzy. In Sucker Punch, contestants run along a wall from which fists pop out and sucker-punch them.

Things are a little different when it comes to “I Survived a Japanese Game Show.” In the sequence called “Baby Go Boom,” the viewers have the chance to see the competitors wearing baby bonnets and diapers and spinning around in cribs until they’re dizzy.   

NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” attracted another 11.7 million viewers. Overall, NBC won the battle of viewership with 10.6 million, followed by ABC with 8.2 million, CBS with 7.3 million and Fox which trapped 5.5 million viewers.