Lab Rats Challenge is an Australian children's game show. The program began broadcasting on 4 August 2008 at 4pm on the Nine Network with hosts Drew Jarvis and Nicole Dixon. On 5 March 2012, the show moved to the Seven Network with Aleisha Groth replacing Dixon for the revived series. On 12 February 2013 at 10:15am The show moved to the ABC3 The show has also been broadcast on Cartoon Network
In contrast to other Australian children's game shows such as Sharky's Friends, A*mazing, and Go Go Stop, which are filmed on a large set in front of a live studio audience, Lab Rats Challenge uses several smaller sets resembling an abandoned science laboratory as well as special effects sequences inserted in post-production. It is filmed in Brisbane's Channel 9 studio on Mount Coot-tha, Queensland.
Eight children between four and eleven years old move into a new housing development. They go to the same school and play together. There's the boy Petja and his friends Vincent, Laurin and Maus, and the girl Tara and her friends Tieneke, Fritzi and Jul. They often have different opinions and it doesn't always turn out to be fun. But Möwenweg is ultimately always the most beautiful place in the world.
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