What happened to robot wars?

I have wanted to know this answer for years.What happpened to robot wars?

Thanks.

Dan.

In brief (extremely brief):
BBC wanted to do make-overs on every house and garden in the country by Series 6 and (ably assisted by Olympics, World Cup etc.) schedules slipped eventually disappearing altogether.
Series 7 bought by Five - no one knew when it was on, not even Five knew. With everyone confused rating plummeted. No further programmes were commissioned.

..without a TV channel to fund filming of the show, Robot Wars ceased to exist.

Now we have Roaming Robots and Robots Live as well as others running events through out the year which are more fun and better for the audience.

Sweet :)

Old series of robot wars are currently on digital tv channels (sky one and i think it may still be on Sci-Fi). Challenge TV is about to start showing it as well(series 3 &4 i think).

http://www.robotslive.co.ukwww.robotslive.co.uk

I wonder when a cable tv company will realise that all they need to do is bring camera crew to a robots live or roaming robots event and film it and people will watch it. There must be some kind of profit in that.
Then again most profit made by media is through merchandise.

Sadly :sad:

Unfortunately its not as simple as that due to the difference in lighting for stage and lighting for TV - then theres BECTU (Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union) so you would have technicians running all over the place (how many BECTU members does it take to change a lightbulb?), and finally we would all need ECS cards to show them that we are competent with wiring up our own robots, plugging in a charger etc. :wink:

Its all stupid though,because robot wars was a very popular show at the time!

It still is obviously otherwise would Challenge waste their time and money with it?

What happened to the arena and house bots?

house bots ended up gathering dust in a barn somewhere, not sure if this is still the case, same goes probably for the arena.

i doubt the bots are gathering dust just are not shown atm and would cost alot to bring to events

the arena got sold i believe

Also, it wasnt a part of why it stopped but they should have taken more care of the roboteers. They didnt even have prize money til series 7, and they said everyone who competed would receive a small fee.

richard think you have that wrong,

we recived moneys for seris 5 and 7

Really? You got were paid for qualifying for the series.

Thats interesting.


EDIT: Ahh, so you were there with the Beast.

(Message edited by Almost_there on September 27, 2007)

8645t and 8645t2 seris 5 heat A and seris 7 heat j

i hate smidsy and thermador/ mighty mouse ;)lol

What i heard about Robot Wars was that they had to cancel due to poor ticket sales...:sad:

No need to bump old threads Matt :)

???
What?

This thread is over a year old, you dont bump old threads unless you have a very good reason, lol