Fata Morgana was a Flemish

Flanders

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 television show which ran for five series

Television program

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 between 2004 and 2008. It could be classified as a game show

Game show

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, though there were no prize

Prize

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s to be won.

Each episode, a local celebrity

Celebrity

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 would issue a series of five themed challenges to a particular town

Town

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 or city

City

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, usually tasks which required a great deal of manpower

Manpower

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 and creativity

Creativity

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. The inhabitants of the competing town or city had roughly six days to complete these task, ending in an event on Saturday afternoon where their efforts were judge

Judge

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d, and symbolic "gold star

Gold Star

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s" were awarded for each task successfully completed. Both this event and the preparation

Preparation

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s during the week were taped and broadcast the following Sunday evening, with the next challenge presented at the end of the programme.

Challenges included breaking world record

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s, assembling masses in a particular style of fancy dress, building scale

Scale model

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 replica

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s of monument

Monument

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s, and retrieving items from foreign countries or outer space

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.

The first series was presented by Geena Lisa and Sergio

Sergio

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. The latter left the program in 2007 and was replaced by Steph Goossens for the final two series.