We all know someone who reckons they could beat Luke Littler. Maybe it’s your husband, who spends his evening in the pub at the darts board rather than the bar. Maybe it’s your sister, who only agrees to attend the family Sunday roast so she can show off her new arrows. Maybe it’s you! Now, thanks to Netflix, you have the chance to prove yourself right once and for all.
The streaming service has announced Beat Luke Littler, a competition that will see the 19-year-old darts prodigy take on casual players in an event streamed live to the world. Regional heats will take place in London and Manchester in September, with 20 amateurs chosen to face Luke the Nuke in a grand finale on 30 October. Whoever manages to beat him will take home an eye-watering £501,000 (to represent the 501 points they must whittle down to win).
It’s a genius idea. Luke Littler is a superstar, having turned the darts world upside down when he reached the final of the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship at the tender age of 16. His fame and talent have only grown since, and this year he’s already won the World Championship, the UK Open, the Premier League and the Masters.
And yet, thanks to his youth, his nonchalant charm, his ordinariness, thousands still think they could beat Littler in a game of darts. Littler is all too aware of this – the promo video for the competition shows him reading social media posts from people who think they are better at him at darts before looking into the camera and saying: “Think you can beat me in a game of darts? Let’s go.”
The chances of beating Littler are slim but not impossible – after all, he’ll have to beat all 20 of his challengers, while each of them will only have win one game against him to take home that half a million cash prize. But this is Luke Littler – the teenager whose most recent match saw him beat Phil Taylor’s tournament record. The amateurs are more than likely being set up to fail, and there’s nothing we like to see more than someone with misplaced bravado be knocked down a peg or two.
Luke Littler will take on 20 amateur darts players who think they can beat him (Photo: Ben Roberts Photo/Getty Images)Whatever happens, it’s sure to be brilliant, unmissable television – something I can’t remember thinking about a live broadcast for years.
Netflix has been dipping into the world of live broadcast for a while now, but without much success. An attempt at a live reunion for season four of its dating series Love Is Blind was beset with technical difficulties that made the show unwatchable, while the stream of a boxing match between influencer Jake Paul and Mike Tyson consistently crashed. More recently, however, the streamer’s live feed of Alex Honnold’s life-risking climb to the top of a Taiwan skyscraper went off without a hitch -though it was on a 10-second delay in case Honnold fell, making the jeopardy of the live element rather redundant.
By contrast, Beat Luke Littler hits the sweet spot of stakes vs entertainment. For Littler and the competitors, the stakes couldn’t be higher – the former a professional proving his worth, the latter fighting to win a life-changing sum of money. But darts itself is a rather safe sport, meaning there’s no need for any sort of delay – something that couldn’t be said were Netflix asking its viewers to step into the ring with Tyson Fury.
Meanwhile, on our traditional broadcast channels, live television has been largely avoided for bold new concepts. Only charity telethons, morning magazine series and The One Show are given the green light to broadcast to the nation without editing – as well as Strictly Come Dancing of course, which is about as exciting as it gets when it comes to British live TV.
With Netflix coming up with fun, borderline silly ideas such as having a darts champ playing against darts chumps, the linear channels are falling behind. I doubt the BBC could cough up a fee as handsome as I’m sure Netflix are offering Littler.
Beat Luke Littler has the potential to go down in history as a truly great television event. To combine a rather simple entertainment format with sport is a very clever move on Netflix’s part. It certainly helps that darts is such an accessible game, which is what makes the competition element so intoxicating. It’s almost too good of an opportunity to miss out on for those who honestly believe they could beat Littler.
And if they really can, well that’s something I hope Littler will be able to shoulder. After all, it’s only he who really stands to lose. If he is beaten by one of his unknown challengers, then his reputation could be left in tatters.
Beat Luke Littler is on Netflix on 30 October
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