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Ninja Warrior UK series 1

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ28154232 ↗
Source-derived summary

Series One of Ninja Warrior UK, a British physical obstacle assault course game show, was aired on ITV during 2015, from 11 to 30 April May. Of the 250 contestants that took part, the series' competition was won by Timothy Shieff. During its broadcast, the series averaged around 3.76 million viewers.

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ninja, Warrior and series can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ninja Warrior UK series 1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.