Have you ever wondered what Jet, Wolf, and the rest of ITV's Gladiators did after the show finished? Wonder no more...
ITV’s Gladiators - the show that for eight years made children everywhere become interested in sports, eating well and keeping fit... for about five minutes on a Saturday night, then we all went back to our natural state of sitting on the settee eating sugar straight from the packet.
What was it that inspired this minor surge of enthusiasm for being buff? That would be the gladiators themselves. Every week, twelve superhuman powerhouses - six men and six women - would intimidate, bully, and otherwise humiliate whichever puny contestants stepped up to try their luck, beating or hindering them in a series of physical skill games. This took place before the big finale – where the contenders would race each other up a downwards escalator, while the gladiators were...
ITV’s Gladiators - the show that for eight years made children everywhere become interested in sports, eating well and keeping fit... for about five minutes on a Saturday night, then we all went back to our natural state of sitting on the settee eating sugar straight from the packet.
What was it that inspired this minor surge of enthusiasm for being buff? That would be the gladiators themselves. Every week, twelve superhuman powerhouses - six men and six women - would intimidate, bully, and otherwise humiliate whichever puny contestants stepped up to try their luck, beating or hindering them in a series of physical skill games. This took place before the big finale – where the contenders would race each other up a downwards escalator, while the gladiators were...
- 8/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Do execs dream of Philip K Dick stories? His novel of a humanity embroiled in inter-species war is the latest to be optioned
What is it about the weird and wonderful world of Philip K Dick that has Hollywood hanging round his stories like moths to a flame? Variety reports this week that the time-travelling tale Now Wait for Last Year is the latest novel by the prolific late science fiction writer to be optioned for a date with the multiplexes. In the next couple of years we'll also see Michel Gondry taking charge of disturbing future vision Ubik, Disney attacking whimsical fantasy King of the Elves and the BBC taking on alternate history The Man in the High Castle. There's probably a lot more to come: the author wrote more than 40 published full-length novels and 120 short stories during a writing career of just over three decades.
Film-makers may be...
What is it about the weird and wonderful world of Philip K Dick that has Hollywood hanging round his stories like moths to a flame? Variety reports this week that the time-travelling tale Now Wait for Last Year is the latest novel by the prolific late science fiction writer to be optioned for a date with the multiplexes. In the next couple of years we'll also see Michel Gondry taking charge of disturbing future vision Ubik, Disney attacking whimsical fantasy King of the Elves and the BBC taking on alternate history The Man in the High Castle. There's probably a lot more to come: the author wrote more than 40 published full-length novels and 120 short stories during a writing career of just over three decades.
Film-makers may be...
- 12/9/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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