PASSION DISTRIBUTION SECURES SALES OF ROBOT WARS AROUND THE WORLD
London, Wednesday 12th October 2016, Passion Distribution is delighted to announce further sales for the first season of the new, rebooted ROBOT WARS (6 x 60’ & Format) which will now air in over 90 territories. ROBOT WARS, which has just been recommissioned for a second season by the BBC, proved a hit with audiences this summer in its Sunday night primetime slot on BBC Two.
Viasat World have acquired the first season of the new generation ROBOT WARS for CEE and CIS Explore channel. Season 1 premiered on Tuesday 11th October.
BBC Worldwide has also picked up the new season for Africa and Sky New Zealand has acquired the series for its free to air channel Prime.
The sales follow acquisitions by ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany and also Manoto TV who picked up the free TV rights for the series for Farsi/Persian speakers in Iran.
Following 7 main seasons in the UK, and 2 ‘Extreme’ spin off seasons between 1998-2004, ROBOT WARS burst back onto British TV screens in July 2016 on BBC Two.
ROBOT WARS is a national knockout competition to find the toughest, most advanced fighting robots in the country. In this fast paced series, competing teams of amateur robot designers build robots to fight to the death in a bulletproof arena.
Overseen by the hosts of the show and a panel of judges, the competitor’s robots battle against each other using powerful weapons including pneumatic hammers, blades, flame throwers and pick axes.
Also up against the competitors are the fearsome and charismatic house robots whose purpose is to ambush and destroy. In each timed round the winning robot is the one which disables its adversary, traps it in a pit or feeds it to the house robots. ROBOT WARS is produced by Mentorn Scotland and SJP Media for BBC Two.
Alongside sales of the new series, the original seasons are enjoying resurgence with broadcasters across the world. Sky New Zealand has picked up seasons 5-7 of the original ROBOT WARS series for The Zone channel and Turner Toonami in Thailand have also acquired seasons 5-7 of the original ROBOT WARS series. The African Business Channel has licensed season 6 of the original ROBOT WARS series for its Ignition channel.
