The BBC are reviving Gladiators!
I think there are a lot of question marks over what Gladiators looks like in 2022 (2023 presumably), not least in terms of what would be allowable with modern health and safety – we all want Pyramid back, but it caused so many injuries. And this feels like an *expensive* show for the BBC to make. Still though, consider us intrigued.
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Content! Sometime in the last week Koh-Lanta (French Survivor) surprise dropped in the UK Switch e-Shop, despite meaning to have been released last Autumn. Searching for it on XBox, it’s also been released there as well, so we thought we’d buy that one to really show off the potential of the Series X, ahem.
We can’t in good conscience suggest you drop £35 on it for any version. What I would suggest is that the game’s overall puzzle – that of energy and resource management, is a surprisingly engaging one (at least for the first few adventures), and that your energy levels determining how difficult the challenges are is mildly clever, but it’s a pity there aren’t that many of them (14 total), they’re largely not great by Mario Party standards and the lack of camera control makes some of them extremely annoying.
We mentioned it a few years ago when it first started, but I want to signal boost Gladiators TV’s The Gladpod which just finished its second run which has had dome tremendous interviewees the last few weeks and is well worth catching up with for Glads fans – the previous episode’s guest was the King of Light Entertainment Nigel Lythgoe and the series ender is none other than Michael van Wijk aka Wolf, who is pretty much as entertaining as you’d hope and also features some interesting stories regarding inter-Gladiator politics and the like. Give it a listen.
It’s the final heat of Bother’s Bar’s Hot Week and what better way to end than a bizarre series of seemingly random clips from big money ITV Saturday night non-hit Ice Warriors.
Of note: we remember the Top Trumps style ratings for each of the Ice Warriors (which sometimes had a statistic for Magic), but pity Zaran the Serene who, having worked hard over many years to become an Ice Warrior, has been given a Skill rating of 1 out of 5. Bit harsh.
Day Four of Bloody Hell It’s Hot Week on Bother’s Bar and it’s both overwhelming and underwhelming. Overwhelming because we don’t think we’ve seen anything more of it on the internet, underwhelming because it’s only a few seconds. Still though.
Body Heat was a mildly popular (three series) physical ability entertainment show on ITV in the 90s hosted by Mike Smith alongside Jeremy Guscott (who went on to host Gladiators) and Sally Gunnell, rounds were basically being best at stuff you did at the gym, as well as an outside broadcast action round, a fitness related quiz, edited highlights of a bleep test (I’m still pitching Million Dollar Bleep Test – execs call me) which could be surprisingly engaging and finally the bleepy bloopy Batak Wall, except you had to do a load of stuff to knacker you out first against the clock (this was great actually, I’m surprised more shows haven’t done “you need to do X to score points, but you have to do Y before you can get to X” as a mechanic).
Anyway here’s six seconds of it.