Grand Theft Auto (game show) (Johnsonverse)

Grand Theft Auto is an American game show based on the video game series of the same name. It has aired on G4 since September 8, 2012, and is hosted by Chris "Young Maylay" Bellard, who was the voice actor for the character Carl "CJ" Johnson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The series has three contestants attempt to gain the most money by doing missions. The announcer is Michael Hollick, who was the voice actor for Niko Bellic in IV and its episodes.
Shot at the Johnson Studios backlot, the series has received critical acclaim, although there was major controversy due to the use of prop weapons and almost all of its missions involving killing people, often innocent pedestrians and police officers, robbing stores, or hijacking cars.
== Format ==
All three players (one of whom is a returning champion, referred to as a "Surviving Contestant") are given $1,000 to start with, a prop weapon via a wheel (purportedly sponsored by Ammu-Nation). The player must answer three trivia questions about adult topics, and the person with the most dollars must go to the course, populated with "very interesting characters", and do a mission (given through a payphone by the announcer) where they must kill certain characters in the process with the weapon, including prostitutes and police officers, for even more money (if the contestant is wasted or busted, they fail the mission and $100 is deducted from their score), hijack cars and return them to a garage, or rob stores, among other possibilities. All three people keep the money they won throughout the game. 
In the bonus round, the winner must do a Rampage, where they must kill gang members with the weapon, each person adding $100 to the score (innocent people being killed in the crossfire adds $250), and evade their shots at the same time. If the contestant kills 25 gang members, they win a prize selected from a series of twenty envelopes, including varying money values (for example, $25,000, $50,000, $75,000, and $100,000) and one of eight cars seen on the set.
The set is intentionally designed to resemble a crime-ridden city, with contestant podiums resembling newspaper dispensers, and the course featuring prop buildings and vehicles, being populated with pedestrians (played by various paid extras). Workers (also played by paid extras) populate the various stores.
== Production ==
===COVID-19 pandemic===
== Seasons ==
Season	First aired 	Last aired 	Episodes
1 	September 8, 2012 	April 27, 2013	30
2 	September 28, 2013	April 19, 2014	30
3 	September 5, 2014 	April 10, 2015	30
4 	September 19, 2015	April 16, 2016	30
5 	September 10, 2016	April 8, 2017 	30
6 	September 16, 2017	April 14, 2018	30
7 	September 22, 2018	April 20, 2019	30
8 	September 14, 2019	April 11, 2020	30
9 	September 19, 2020	April 17, 2021	30
10 	September 25, 2021	April 23, 2022	30
== Reception ==
== Controversy ==
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