FTA-TV Gladiators returning to TV

[YeoShuey]

not that the nightly TV ratings are the be all and end all these days (since they are measuring streaming and views over a 7 day period), but going from 395k on the debut night (across the 3 channels) to 196k on the 2nd night is pretty awful.

plus going up against the BBL and AO Tennis.

I read somewhere that they are putting episodes on tomorrow and Friday night to wrap it up quicker. TV guide also has an episode scheduled for Sunday. Also brought forward Survivor and Deal or No Deal by a week.

Doubt there will be a second season with these ratings.

 

[Vader]

I read somewhere that they are putting episodes on tomorrow and Friday night to wrap it up quicker. TV guide also has an episode scheduled for Sunday. Also brought forward Survivor and Deal or No Deal by a week.

Doubt there will be a second season with these ratings.

100% self-inflicted, by their decision to strip it across multiple nights - and to bloat it to 90 min per episode.

At 1x 60 min episode per week, on a Saturday night, it would have been a good show.

 

[Cleavy]

I read somewhere that they are putting episodes on tomorrow and Friday night to wrap it up quicker. TV guide also has an episode scheduled for Sunday. Also brought forward Survivor and Deal or No Deal by a week.

Doubt there will be a second season with these ratings.

according to the online guide I am looking at (yourtv.com.au), the episodes tomorrow and Friday night are repeats. Sunday through next Wednesday are first run eps (4-7)

Gladiators TV Show - Australian TV Guide - 9Entertainment

Gladiators TV Show - Australian TV Guide - 9Entertainment

www.yourtv.com.au

 

[YeoShuey]

according to the online guide I am looking at (yourtv.com.au), the episodes tomorrow and Friday night are repeats. Sunday through next Wednesday are first run eps (4-7)

Gladiators TV Show - Australian TV Guide - 9Entertainment

Gladiators TV Show - Australian TV Guide - 9Entertainment

www.yourtv.com.au

Yeah my TV Guide says the same. Below source said Episode 4 is now on Thursday so who knows really.

10 burns off new GLADIATORS; brings forward SURVIVOR & DEAL OR NO DEAL

In a disastrous start to the year, 10 have been forced to act by burning off underperforming Gladiators and bringing forward Survivor and Deal Or No Deal.

tvblackbox.com.au

 

[Cleavy]

Yeah my TV Guide says the same. Below source said Episode 4 is now on Thursday so who knows really.

10 burns off new GLADIATORS; brings forward SURVIVOR & DEAL OR NO DEAL

In a disastrous start to the year, 10 have been forced to act by burning off underperforming Gladiators and bringing forward Survivor and Deal Or No Deal.

tvblackbox.com.au

they all seem to be new descriptions on the TV guide on the 10play site, so it definitely seems like they are burning through episodes.

 

[YeoShuey]

Not surprised. This season is bad.

Gladiators 1995 had about 16 events including Eliminator. Our currently version will only have 8-9. Plus, they keep reusing the same events each early episode.… Gets very boring.

No audience.

Gladiator numbers seem very low. I am not liking this reboot.

 

[GreekLunatic]

Does Liz Ellis have any other clothes this black ops gladiator is from parts unknown

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

100% self-inflicted, by their decision to strip it across multiple nights - and to bloat it to 90 min per episode.

At 1x 60 min episode per week, on a Saturday night, it would have been a good show.

Agree. Also you have 8 qualifying episodes to review and choose which one you put as episode 1 of the series.

Surely you pick an option to lead off the series whereby the games and eliminator are close.

That episode 1 that they choose was a horrible choice of contestants that were absolutely woeful. No wonder they lost half the viewers.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

they all seem to be new descriptions on the TV guide on the 10play site, so it definitely seems like they are burning through episodes.

If the viewers continue to drop off, the show will get buried to a late night slot and they will probably have double episodes so theh finish the series in two weeks.

 

[YeoShuey]

Agree. Also you have 8 qualifying episodes to review and choose which one you put as episode 1 of the series.

Surely you pick an option to lead off the series whereby the games and eliminator are close.

That episode 1 that they choose was a horrible choice of contestants that were absolutely woeful. No wonder they lost half the viewers.

And surely you would change the events up by Episode 2. Having only Duel, Powerball, The Wall and Pyramid for the first 8 episodes is not sustainable.

 

[eddiesmith]

Have they made the travelator easier? Original series always seemed to take a few goes!

 

[nobbyiscool]

I don't know why we're only getting the same 4 games. I don't know why they're watching criticisms and not making changes, much as I know that's difficult to do on the run.

I thought this had been marketed well enough to be successful. But as soon as the show starts these Gladiators don't feel like superheroes (with the possible exceptions of Phoenix and maybe Halo), and hyping the prize as "being a Gladiator" instead of a car or whatever makes them feel less like superheroes, cos theoretically anyone can become one.

I feel like Gladiators might've just been a wonderful piece of kitsch that had it's place in the 90s, multiple reboots now have taught us that.

 

[tigs2010]

Sandor Earl. Journeyman NRL player.
I think he cheated on the duel. He anticipated the whistle and moved before it was blown to get the first shot in. Wouldn't of mattered anyway against a 19 year old.

Cheated in NRL too

 

[tigs2010]

Been watching this on company time and finally caught up. What a grind. Mix the games up ffs. I'm not going to get through 8 episodes of the same thing even during work hours

 

[brucetiki]

I don't know why we're only getting the same 4 games. I don't know why they're watching criticisms and not making changes, much as I know that's difficult to do on the run.

I thought this had been marketed well enough to be successful. But as soon as the show starts these Gladiators don't feel like superheroes (with the possible exceptions of Phoenix and maybe Halo), and hyping the prize as "being a Gladiator" instead of a car or whatever makes them feel less like superheroes, cos theoretically anyone can become one.

I feel like Gladiators might've just been a wonderful piece of kitsch that had it's place in the 90s, multiple reboots now have taught us that.

Rather than base the revamp on the original 90’s format (like the BBC have done), Channel 10 managed to not only base it off the 2008 UK revival, but made it even cheaper and nastier.

Frankly, 10 are better off hiding our version to late nights, and start showing the BBC version every Sunday night.

The BBC have shown you can successfully revive Gladiators, if it’s done right

 

[Cleavy]

I guess we'll never get "Celebrity Gladiators" now, so my dream of watching Grant Denyer getting streamrolled is once again on hold.

 

[YeoShuey]

I wasn’t a fan of the BBC version on first watch but really like it now. Phantom is my favourite Gladiator.

One thing of many that really irritates me about the Aussie version is that in Ep 2, there was no theme song? They should have got the rights to the original Gladiators theme.

 

[GreekLunatic]

How many more injuries to contestant also it’s not fair for the one not injured cause the sub is more fresh

 

[Johnboi]

How many more injuries to contestant also it’s not fair for the one not injured cause the sub is more fresh

They need to have a points system where if a fresh contender comes in they drop a certain number of points per game already played, or come in a certain number of points behind, to at least make it a bit fairer. Tonight's men's eliminator, although close in the end, was a joke.
Having said that, can anyone confirm how long each episode takes to film? There may be a decent time between each game to allow contestants to freshen up a little.

 

[nobbyiscool]

They are burning this off really quickly it turns out, tonight was a new ep and the preview for tomorrow night said "when Gladiators continues".

 

[nobbyiscool]

They need to have a points system where if a fresh contender comes in they drop a certain number of points per game already played, or come in a certain number of points behind, to at least make it a bit fairer. Tonight's men's eliminator, although close in the end, was a joke.
Having said that, can anyone confirm how long each episode takes to film? There may be a decent time between each game to allow contestants to freshen up a little.

I had acquaintances go and watch the filming back in 2008 - during that series they said it was actually harder on the Gladiators, cos they'd set up a game and run it, say, 4 times for 4 different episodes and 16 different contestants.

So they didn't get to watch a lineal episode where people competed in 4 games and then they saw an eliminator, from memory they spent a whole Sunday at filming and just saw maybe 8 games of Hang Tough, 6 games of Pyramid and maybe 10 games of duel (I'm guessing those numbers obviously.) But didn't see an eliminator or a winner all day.

 

[weltschmerz]

Will be cool to see Delta’s and Hammer’s sons on the show.

 

[brucetiki]

How many more injuries to contestant also it’s not fair for the one not injured cause the sub is more fresh

In the original run, if a contender got injured in the final even before the Eliminator, no reserve came on and the other contender ran the Eliminator solo.

In fact, the winner of season 3 for the women ended up running the Eliminator solo in the final because the other contender got injured in the event before the Eliminator. The two ended up facing off in England in the final of the second Ashes series though.

 

[brucetiki]

I don’t think they thought having Hammer’s son on with Hammer as the ref through by the looks of it.

It looked like they literally got a work experience kid to ref the men’s events tonight.

 

[tigs2010]

Hurry up quarter finals. Want to see some different games. 8 eps of the same thing is really rough.