Gladiators: Prepared! Contenders: Prepared!

After a pair of current documentaries revitalized curiosity in American Gladiators, it’s been revealed that Amazon’s Prime Video is relaunching the basic sports activities competitors sequence for streaming TV.

A seek for contestants for the brand new model of the present is already underway. As producers put it…

Doing a cross-country casting search is thrilling for us, and for the followers. Our aim is to discover a actual cross-section of America’s fittest and fiercest opponents … That is the last word in sports activities leisure.

Launched in 1989, American Gladiators grew to become a staple of syndicated tv programming all by the Nineties. Each week, yhe present pitted 4 opponents — two males and two girls — in opposition to one another in a sequence of outlandish athletic contests. Additionally they confronted off with the present’s “Gladiators,” buffed out physique builders and athletes in outlandish sci-fi costumes. On the finish of the episodes, the contestants raced to be the primary to outlive “The Eliminator.”

The present was like The Working Man with barely decrease stakes and a bit much less of a humorousness. It was nice.

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In recent times, the creation of the American Gladiators was chronicled in two completely different documentaries. ESPN made The American Gladiators Documentary, whereas Netflix had their very own miniseries known as Muscular tissues & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators, which can not have been licensed however did embrace quite a lot of contributions former Gladiators, who detailed the highs and lows of engaged on the present. (A few of their tales have been wild.)

Gladiators has been revived as soon as earlier than; after the present was canceled the primary time in 1996, it bought revived in 2008 with a brand new forged of characters, up to date video games, and Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali because the hosts. That model of the sequence ended after two seasons.

If you happen to’re enthusiastic about changing into a contestant on the brand new American Gladiators, you may apply at this web site.