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Each episode consists of four players, known as 'contenders' – two male and two female – competing in a series of physically challenging events against the show's resident 'Gladiators', a group of elite athletes – such as bodybuilders or track and field athletes – and eventually competing in one final event, the Eliminator. The series ...
The contenders for the heat are: Joe and Aman; and Nikki and Keeva. New female Gladiator, Cyclone, debuts in this episode. Events for this heat include the classics Duel and The Wall, in addition to the renewed Gauntlet. During the event The Edge, female contender Nikki suffered an injury upon falling from the edge with Gladiator Dynamite.
The majority of episodes for Gladiators, with the special series of International Gladiators, the second series of The Ashes, and the first series of Springbok Challenge, were filmed within the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, whose ITV provider is Central, the show itself was made by LWT.
^6 These events had the female Gladiators against the male contenders. ^7 In these special episodes, there were 6 contenders with 2 being eliminated after event 4 (event 3 in the Fighting Forces special) and another 2 being eliminated after event 5.
Similar to the original series, it is a comedic sports entertainment show with "cartoon-ish violence" for a family audience. [12] The first official teaser trailer for the series was released on 6 November 2023, featuring eight of the Gladiators of the show (females Arrow, Chaos, Comet, Halo, and males Cyclone, Phoenix, Spartan and Viking). [13]
The first series of Gladiators aired in the UK in Spring 2024 on BBC One, [1] [2] and is also available on video on demand platform BBC iPlayer. [3] The series was filmed in June 2023 at Sheffield Arena. [4] The show is presented by Bradley Walsh and his son Barney Walsh, with Mark Clattenburg, Sonia Mkoloma and Lee Phillips acting as the referees.
She left the Gladiators in 1996 after sustaining a neck injury on the show. She later said that she did not want to risk a more serious injury. [6] She then co-hosted the final original series of Finders Keepers with Neil Buchanan in 1996, and in the same year, was the hostess on You Bet!, with Darren Day. [4]
In the fourth episode, a female contestant, Gemma Green, had to pull out owing to sustaining a knee injury in Gauntlet just before the Eliminator. In the semi-finals, David Staff broke his nose while on Earthquake with Doom; however, he went on to score points in the event and later won the show, eventually becoming male champion of the series ...