It's ba-ack! The show that put more than a dozen female bodybuilders on TV is returning to American television - and this time in primetime rather than in syndication. Rejoice!
"American Gladiators" is returning to television, bringing all its spandex-clad glory not to syndication but to network primetime.
NBC is pushing forward with a new take on the show, which initially ran in syndication from 1989-97. As with the previous incarnation, the new "American Gladiators" will pit amateur athletes against a group of well-muscled regulars in a number of physical contests.
Get down on your knees and thank God for Ben Silverman, the NBC exec who's pushing it.
Nice to see this, I actually may have become a fan of female bodybuilding/bodybuilders because of American Gladiators, my favorite from the beginning was Raye "Zap" Hollitt, she was the most muscular and strongest female on the show in the beginning and soon, I found myself being more and more interested in the opposite sex not for their facial beauty, but for the amount of muscle they had. Hopefully we can get more buff women the likes of Zap and Ice, rather than the lithe forms of Blaze and Lace.
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2007-08-24 10:34:52
Well, I'm with iceman75 in hoping that we will get some female Gladiators with Zap/Ice/Siren-level muscle, but something tells me to be braced for disappointment.
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2007-08-24 17:39:01
The upside is that we now have prominent athletes in tennis, track, soccer, and basketball who are more muscular than most of the bodybuilders in the early 80s. So even if the producers select gladiators from these other sports, the likelihood is very good that we'll see significant female muscularity.
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2007-08-24 15:56:29
dcmatthews wrote:
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ll, I'm with iceman75 in hoping that we will get some female Gladiators with Zap/Ice/Siren-level muscle, but something tells me to be braced for disappointment.
