Destination X (TV series)
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| Genre | Reality competition |
| Directed by | Ben Archard |
| Presented by | Jeffrey Dean Morgan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Network | NBC |
| Release | May 27, 2025 – present |
Destination X is an American reality competition television series that premiered on NBC on May 27, 2025. The series is hosted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Production
On April 5, 2024, it was announced that NBC had ordered the series.[1][2][3][4] On September 19, 2024, the host, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, was announced.[5][6]
On April 24, 2025, it was announced that the series would premiere on May 27, 2025. The competitors were also announced. An exclusive sneak peek aired on May 3.[7][8][9]
Format
In this competition series, contestants are sent to Europe and are transported by bus to various locations, while blindfolded. The primary objective is to guess the location to where they have been transported, and games are played along the way to gain clues. The contestant each week whose guess is farthest from their true location is eliminated, and the process is repeated.[10] The last remaining contestant wins $250,000.
Cast
The cast includes former Big Brother winner Josh Martinez; Peter Weber, a former Bachelor Nation and The Traitors contestant; and former Love Island contestant JaNa Craig.
| Contestant[9] | Age | Occupation/Original series | Hometown[9] | Entered | Exited | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Martinez | 31[11] | Big Brother | Miami, Florida | Episode 1 | Episode 1 | Eliminated 1st (in Rome, Italy) |
| Jonah Evarts | TBA | English teacher | Manhattan, Kansas | Episode 2 | Eliminated 2nd (in Geneva, Switzerland) | |
| Rachel Rossette | 28[12] | Sales consultant | Orlando, Florida | Episode 3 | Eliminated 3rd (in Paris, France) | |
| Tai Lowry | TBA | Attorney and flight attendant | Prince George's County, Maryland | Episode 4 | Eliminated 4th (in Amsterdam, Netherlands) | |
| Kim Conner | TBA | Child protective services | Kaneohe, Hawaii | Episode 5 | Eliminated 5th (in Munich, Germany) | |
| Mack Fitzgerald | TBA | State legislative attorney | Austin, Texas | Episode 6 | Eliminated 6th (in Salzburg, Austria) | |
| JaNa Craig | 28[13] | Love Island USA | Las Vegas, Nevada | Episode 3 | Episode 7 | Eliminated 7th (in Venice, Italy) |
| Ally Bross | 27[14] | Travel influencer | Orlando, Florida | Episode 1 | Episode 8 | Eliminated 8th (in Venice, Italy) |
| Shayne Cureton | TBA | Model | Indianapolis, Indiana | Episode 9 | Eliminated 9th (in Monaco) | |
| Biggy Bailey | TBA | Sports bettor | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Episode 10 | Eliminated 10th (in London, England) | |
| Peter Weber | 33 | The Bachelor and The Traitors | Los Angeles, California | Episode 3 | Runner-up (in London, England) | |
| Rick Szabo | TBA | Professional bird watcher | Picton, Ontario, Canada | Episode 1 | Winner (in London, England) |
Season summary
| Episode | Challenge winner(s) | Eliminated | |||
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| No. | Title | Air date | Reward | Map Room[a] | |
| 1 | "Welcome to Destination X" | May 27, 2025 | Ally [Mack][b] |
Ally, Jonah, Kim, Mack, Rick | Josh Martinez |
| 2 | "Take It Up a Notch" | June 3, 2025 | Ally, Rachel, Rick | Biggy, Kim, Rick, Shayne | Jonah Evarts |
| 3 | "Catching Feelings Changes Everything" | June 10, 2025 | Shayne, Tai | Ally, Kim, Shayne, Tai | Rachel Rosette |
| 4 | "Let the Deceit Begin" | June 17, 2025 | Biggy, Rick, Tai | Biggy[c] | Tai Lowry |
| 5 | "Moral Compass" | June 24, 2025 | Biggy, Mack, Rick, Shayne | Biggy, JaNa, Mack, | Kim Conner |
| 6 | "The Most Haunted Castle in Europe" | July 1, 2025 | Ally[d] | Ally[d], Rick, [Biggy][e] |
Mack Fitzgerald |
| 7 | "The Clues Were There All Along" | July 8, 2025 | Rick, Shayne | Ally, Biggy, Shayne | JaNa Craig |
| 8 | "The Knives Are Out" | July 15, 2025 | Ally, Biggy, Peter, Rick, Shayne[f] | N/A[g] | Ally Bross |
| 9 | "How's Your Poker Face?" | July 22, 2025 | N/A | Biggy, Peter, Rick, Shayne | Shayne Cureton |
| 10 | "The Grand Finale" | July 29, 2025 | N/A | Peter, Rick | Biggy Bailey, Peter Weber |
- ^ Every person who is safe from the map room is listed here as in some cases, a team lost but players on the losing team were safe.
- ^ In addition to winning, Ally won the reward for herself and one other player of her choice; she chose Mack.
- ^ As the winner of the second clue, Biggy was told the location for the round. At the risk of being eliminated, he needed to convince one player to pick the incorrect country. He managed to avoid elimination by convinving Tai to guess Brussels, Belgium.
- ^ a b In addition to winning the reward challenge, Ally won immunity for herself. Thus, she did not participate in the map room challenge.
- ^ In addition to winning, Rick won immunity for himself and one other player of his choice; he chose Biggy.
- ^ In this challenge, players individually memorized ten masks, and then identified two that they previously saw. They earned a dagger for each they correctly identified. All players correctly identified two, earning them the same reward.
- ^ This episode featured a game where the player who lost was eliminated instead of players proceeding to the map room.
Results
| Place | Contestant | Episodes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8[a] | 9 | 10 | ||
| 1 | Rick | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | RISK | RISK | SAFE | RISK | RISK | RISK | WINNER |
| 2 | Peter | N/A[b] | IN | RISK | RISK | RISK[c] | RISK | RISK | RISK | RUNNER-UP | |
| 3 | Biggy | RISK | SAFE | RISK | SAFE[d] | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | OUT |
| 4 | Shayne | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | RISK | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |
| 5 | Ally | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | RISK | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||
| 6 | JaNa | N/A[b] | IN | RISK | SAFE | RISK | OUT | ||||
| 7 | Mack | SAFE | RISK | RISK | RISK | SAFE | OUT | ||||
| 8 | Kim | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | OUT | |||||
| 9 | Tai | RISK | RISK | SAFE | OUT | ||||||
| 10 | Rachel | RISK | RISK | OUT | |||||||
| 11 | Jonah | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
| 12 | Josh | OUT | |||||||||
- ^ This episode featured a game where the player who lost was eliminated instead of players proceeding to the map room.
- ^ a b JaNa and Peter both entered the game at the end of episode 3.[15]
- ^ As Peter was the closest to the tiebreaker question, he chose to eliminate Mack
- ^ As the winner of the second clue, Biggy was told the location for the round. At the risk of being eliminated, he needed to convince one player to pick the incorrect country. He avoided elimination by convincing Tai to guess Brussels, Belgium.
Episodes
| No. | Title [16][17] | Original release date [16][17] | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating/share (18-49) | |
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| 1 | "Welcome to Destination X" | May 27, 2025 | 2.10[18] | 0.3/4[18] | |
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Episode 1 Results: Tags Collected & Answers Correct:
Team Captains & Clue Partners: Ally & Mack Teams: [in town of Orvieto]
Searchers: Mack & Biggy Riddle Partners:
Map Room
Location: Colosseum in Rome Contestant Eliminated: Josh | |||||
| 2 | "Take It Up a Notch" | June 3, 2025 | 2.11[19] | 0.3/5[19] | |
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Episode 2 Results: Mountain Challenge Teams:
Map Room Challenge Choosers: [in chalet of Flendruz]
Map Room
Location: Lake Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland Contestant Eliminated: Jonah | |||||
| 3 | "Catching Feelings Changes Everything" | June 10, 2025 | 1.81[20] | 0.2/3[20] | |
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Episode 3 Results: Maze Challenge Pairs
Chateau Challenge Head-to-Head
Map Room Challenge Choosers
Map Room
Location: Eiffel Tower in Paris Contestant Eliminated: Rachel | |||||
| 4 | "Let the Deceit Begin" | June 17, 2025 | 1.90[21] | 0.2/3[21] | |
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Episode 4 Results: Dining Challenge Teams
While Tai was part of the winning team, she was in a separate location and couldn't receive the clue, which was being able to see the sights of Volendam while suspended in the air where her partners, Biggy and Rick completed their half of the challenge. Shifting Dunes Challenge
As the winner of the second clue, Biggy was informed of Destination X, but if he could not convince someone to pick the wrong country, he would be eliminated instead of the furthest player from Destination X. Map Room
Location: Canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands Contestant Eliminated: Tai | |||||
| 5 | "Moral Compass" | June 24, 2025 | 1.84[22] | 0.2/4[22] | |
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Episode 5 Results: Train Challenge Teams
Map Room Challenge Basket Claims
Map Room Challenge Baskets Swap
Map Room Challenge Basket Contents
The Magic Mirror's power is revealed (by Heidi Klum as the Magic Mirror) to be sending another player into the Map Room. Magic Mirror - Map Room Nominations:
Map Room
Location: Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany Contestant Eliminated: Kim | |||||
| 6 | "The Most Haunted Castle in Europe" | July 1, 2025 | 1.61[23] | 0.2/3[23] | |
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Episode 6 Results: Castle Challenge [at Moosham Castle]
Rick, Peter and Shayne go to the library and Biggy, Ally and JaNa go to the chapel. Mack goes to the dungeon Riddle Challenge
Peter, Shayne, Biggy and JaNa join Mack in the dungeon. Ally solves the last riddle and heads to the tower while Rick joins the others in the dungeon. Ally chooses Shayne to join her in the tower. Map Room Challenge (feat. Constance and the Belting Berthas) Winner: Rick Rick chooses to save Biggy from the Map Room Map Room
As Peter was the closest to the tiebreaker question, he chose to eliminate Mack Location: Salzburg, Austria Contestant Eliminated: Mack (by Peter) | |||||
| 7 | "The Clues Were There All Along" | July 8, 2025 | 1.96[24] | 0.3/5[24] | |
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Episode 7 Results: Canoeing Challenge [Location: Tagliamento River, Northern Italy]
For winning, Rick & Shayne received a postcard with the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy on it. War Map Room Challenge Location: Palmanova, Italy
Map Room
Location: Grand Canal in Venice, Italy Contestant Eliminated: JaNa | |||||
| 8 | "The Knives Are Out" | July 15, 2025 | 1.93[25] | 0.2/4[25] | |
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Episode 8 Results: Players were immediately told they were in Venice, Italy at the start of the round. Instead, players competed in challenges, with the loser of the last being eliminated.
Mask Challenge [Location: Grand Canal in Venice, Italy]
Each player in turn placed their daggers onto other players. The three players with the most daggers would be nominated for elimination and enter the Garden of Lost Souls. Dagger Nominations
Rick has 4 daggers; Ally, Shayne and Peter have 3 daggers; Biggy has 2 daggers. Rick goes to the Garden of Lost Souls. Biggy has to decide who is safe to break a three-way tie. Biggy chooses Shayne. Ally and Peter join Rick in the Garden of Lost Souls. Garden of Lost Souls Challenge
Contestant Eliminated: Ally | |||||
| 9 | "How's Your Poker Face?" | July 22, 2025 | 1.82[26] | 0.2/4[26] | |
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Episode 9 Results: Players were each given an individual clue at Tabernas Desert, Spain, with each relating to a card suit along with a general clue ("There's no place like home") hiding the letters of Destination X.
Individual Clues
After a day to strategize, players went directly to the map room. Map Room
Players were then brought onto a yacht where they played a game of roulette, betting on red or black in turn. If their bet was correct, they drew a card deciding to move their own X or another player's X. At the end of the game, the player whose X was furthest from Destination X would be eliminated. X Roulette Challenge Round 1
Round 2
Location: Monaco Contestant Eliminated: Shayne | |||||
| 10 | "The Grand Finale" | July 29, 2025 | 2.08[27] | 0.2/4[27] | |
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Episode 10 Results: Players were brought to the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College and played a trivia game. Players started directly in front of Jeffrey with 9 spaces behind them. On a correct answer, they were forced to move either themselves forward or move another player backwards - movement goes as far as possible, with selecting a decision that would cause no change not being allowed (ex: moving a player at the front space forward). The game could end after any question, with the furthest player at that point being immediately eliminated from the game.
Greenwich Challenge:
At the end of the game, both Biggy and Peter were on the same space and had a tiebreaker question to survive. Tiebreaker Question: How many islands make up Venice? (correct answer: 118)
Contestant Eliminated: Biggy After Biggy's elimination, the final two players were given three riddles in a row, linking to various landmarks around London. If they went to the correct location, they received a clue to Destination X - if they were incorrect, they would receive nothing. After all three riddles, players had 90 seconds to use their acquired clues to locate Destination X in a "Map Room brought to them", with the closest to Destination X winning the season. Destination X Challenge:
Map Room
Contestant Eliminated: Peter (Runner-Up) Location: Big Ben in London, England Winner: Rick | |||||
Special
| Title [16][17] | Original release date [16][17] | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating (18–49) |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Sneak Preview of Destination X" | May 3, 2025 | 2.52[28] | 0.4/6[28] |
Critical response
References
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