Any Battlebots fans?

[rpracing]

Been watching them pretty much since it started beng televised. Caught an episode of Robot Wars with Craig Charles (aka Lister on Red Dwarf for all us Smegheads) and just got hooked on robot fighting.

 

[Kevin]

What station is airing it? It seems I can only find it by accident when channel surfing.

 

[rpracing]

Discovery channel. Thursday nights at 7pm Central. Right now its week 2 of the new season.

 

[drd1135]

It starts Thursday in the afternoon with the previous few episodes and the new ones start at 8. Or so I’m told.

 

[Richard]

I used to love Robot Wars. It was properly funny watching some tough-looking robot going berserk in the arena and flailing away at nothing before tipping helplessly onto its back.

According to Wikipedia, the UK version of the show was originally broadcast on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001, it switched to Channel 5 in 2003 / 2004, then after a long gap it came back to BBC Two between 2016 and 2018.

Jeremy Clarkson fronted the first series before Craig Charles took over for most of the run. The revived series was hosted by Dara Ó Briain and Angela Scanlon. Jonathan Pearce provided commentary throughout.

-R

 

[davidzvi]

On and off. Both of my kids were into it. Both were also in the First Robotics program in school. My elder still helps with the first program working on the robot software and managing the fields at events.