Well French Gladiators coming to TF1 next year is looking pretty good, looks like they have some events we don’t have (clearly a clip of Suspension Bridge, seems crazy we don’t have it in our rotation seeing as we have a set-up for Collision anyway), looks like they’ve retitled The Edge to Vertigo (annoying, but I suppose it’s no different to us renaming Joust Duel and then having a separate event called Joust). There are at least three Glads I’d be quite excited to feel the power of, ahem.
It will be really interesting to see how this does for them, there wasn’t a French version of Gladiators in the 90s so the nostalgia factor won’t be going for them, although doubtless elements of the original American Gladiators will feel familiar through osmosis, and Fort Boyard et al “borrowing” some of the ideas.
It was filmed at Aren’Ice in Cergy-Pontoise (even if it looks like Sheffield!).
Edit: Apparently the embedded link isn’t working so here’s a direct one. The trailer doesn’t seem to be on Youtube yet, which is a shame.