‘Bred Crumbs

NBC is reviving American Gladiators. The original AG is way high in my guilty-pleasures list, a Tron-set festival of beef and cheese. (By “beef” I mean Turbo, Tower, et al.)

So, let’s see how NBC is going to screw this up, shall we?

• It will focus more on the “characters” and their behind-the-scenes stories. So, it’s going to be like pro wrestling: little action, lots of talking.
• There will be “family drama.” Unless they mean they’re making Queer as Folk 2007, then that means the same putrid sap that NBC’s somehow-popular briefcase-picking show is crammed with. (Also, NBC, you might stop to consider how much Amazing Race fans loved the “family” season. Which I gather was not very much.)
• We’ll get to see the contestants in training! “Training” equals “further padding out the episodes.”

So really the only thing missing here to make sure this is utterly craptastic is that everyone lives in a house together.

Oh, and one more thing, network: if there ain’t spandex, it ain’t American Gladiators.