


The robot builders left behind in San Francisco formed BattleBots, Inc. Profile licensed Robot Wars to a UK production company and Robot Wars ran for seven years as a popular television program in the UK, before being revived for 2016. The Thorpe partnership broke up in 1997, starting many years of legal wrangling between Thorpe and Profile Records (the former Sm:)e Communications).

Robot Wars had financial backing from Sm:)e communications, a New York record company. Ī second spin-off premiered in Augunder the name BattleBots: Champions where bots fight to gain a slot in an eight-robot competition that combines former and current Battlebots champions with the winners of BattleBots: Champions episodes.īattleBots is an offshoot of the original version Robot Wars, the brainchild of Marc Thorpe. That spinoff premiered on Januon Discovery+. On December 3, 2020, it was announced that a spin-off titled BattleBots: Bounty Hunters would be produced. and the eleventh season on January 6, 2022. A ninth season of BattleBots premiered on Discovery Channel on June 7, 2019, the tenth season premiered on December 3, 2020. In February 2018, Discovery Channel and Science picked up the show for an eighth season, which premiered on May 11, 2018. Additionally, ABC renewed BattleBots for a seventh season, which premiered on June 23, 2016.
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The show was in hiatus until it was revived on ABC in 2015.Ī six-episode revival series premiered on ABC on June 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews and ratings. Comedy Central's first season premiered on August 23, 2000, and its fifth and last season ended on December 21, 2002. For five seasons, BattleBots aired on the American Comedy Central and was hosted by Bil Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, and Tim Green. The show was an adaptation of the British show Robot Wars, in which competitors design and operate remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament. BattleBots (logo: Bꓭ) is an American robot combat television series.
