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Peking Express
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<p><i>Peking Express</i> is a <a href="/facts/List_of_Dutch_television_channels/RHdFemfS">Dutch</a>–<a href="/facts/Flanders/JDsTRuR4">Flemish</a> <a href="/facts/Reality_series/B0RFLdsB">reality</a> game show that follows a series of couples as they <a href="/facts/Hitchhike/QermbzrN">hitchhike</a> to or from Beijing (only in the first three seasons; the following seasons are set elsewhere around the world). The series, first broadcast on 14 March 2004, ran for seven seasons from 2004 to 2008 and was revived in 2012 (as a sole Dutch production) and again in 2017. In the <a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">Netherlands</a>, it was screened by <a href="/facts/Net_5/JUbtWtD6">Net 5</a> and in Belgium by <a href="/facts/Play4_(TV_channel)/3NIvr7e2">VT4</a> during its original 2000s run before moving to <a href="/facts/VTM_2/TLnukf4k">Q2</a> in 2017. The game show concept has also been sold to a number of countries around the world since 2005. </p>