American Gladiators

American Gladiators Recaps

• FinaleWatch: 'American Gladiators'

  This season of American Gladiators brought us some really swell new challenges, I'm a big fan of Tilt, Sideswipe, and Snapback. It also brought us some new gladiators, but, and I'm being honest here, none of them hold a candle to Crush.

• PremiereWatch: 'American Gladiators'

  Though the May Sweep isn't yet over, it seems as thought he summer television season has arrived. Not only is perennial summer fare like Hell's Kitchen in full swing, but tonight the second season of American Gladiators began, and if that doesn't feel like "summer television," I don't know what does.

• FinaleWatch: 'American Gladiators'

  It seems like just last week that we were sitting here, putting on our spandex for the first time in 15 (or so) years and watching the brand-spanking new American Gladiators.

• 'American Gladiators': And then there were four

  The basic problem with a two-hour edition of American Gladiators, as I may have hinted at last week, is not that there's not enough action in the show, but rather that there are far too many commercials and far too many commercial breaks.

• 'American Gladiators' moves on to the semis

  For the semifinals of American Gladiators, NBC opted to up the episode time from 60 minutes to 90. That meant that the network could squeeze in even more awkwardly spaced, momentum killing, commercial breaks (they also added an extra event).

• 'American Gladiators': If you talk the talk...

  With the Presidential speechifying over tonight it was time for American Gladiators (unless you live in a different part of the country than I and saw Gladiators first).