‘We dialled up the superhero’: how Gladiators became the BBC’s biggest entertainment hit in years

‘We dialled up the superhero’: how Gladiators became the BBC’s biggest entertainment hit in years

With minimal tweaks to a teatime show considered passé, the reboot has tapped into cross-generational appeal and eliminated the competition

Do you feel the power of the Gladiators? Do you have the will and the skill?

Or if not, will you at least be humming along with its gleefully bombastic theme tune on Saturday evening, as the show reaches the final episode of its comeback series a mere 32 years after it first stormed on to British television?

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