| Genre: | Reality |
| Presenter: | Manu Bennett |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Location: | Auckland[1] |
| Company: | Touchdown Television |
| Network: | TV3 |
Going Straight is a New Zealand television reality programme by Touchdown Television that aired on TV3 in 2003. The show also aired on the United Kingdom cable channel Challenge.[2] The programme was hosted by New Zealand actor Manu Bennett, where contestants had to continue moving in a straight line, no matter what the obstacles in the way, to compete for prize money of $NZ10,000.
The format of the programme challenged five contestants, wearing location monitoring equipment, to get to the end of a specified "virtual lane" across a landscape by completing three separate straight-line challenges. Contestants were eliminated each round. There was a $10,000 prize for the winner.[3]
By 2005, the show's format had been licensed to international television channels and production companies.[2]
In 2004, an investigation was launched into the programme after a contestant suffered severe burns following a retake of a stunt.[4] The production company was fined $65,000 in district court for the incident.[5] Charges were to be put to either Touchdown Television or its Warkworth District Court representative.[6]
Local media called Going Straight a show similar to Fear Factor[1] [5] on a sickness benefit.[7]