Robot Wars was originally made for US television and was brought to UK TV in 1998 and ran until 2004. The show was originally presented by Jeremy Clarkson and then a year later Craig Charles from Red Dwarf and more recently Coronation Street took over. Of the two presenters, despite the fact that I don't mind Jeremy Clarkson, I thought that Craig Charles was better as he wasn't quite so condescending and took the contestants and their work a bit more seriously. I watched a load of these episodes on BBC2 and found them pretty entertaining and it's one of those things you watch every now and again that you wish you could do yourself. In a sense it was sort of a ...  Read the complete review

Robot Wars was an interesting concept for a show that never quite lived up to its potential somehow. Essentially, assorted nerds, science students and father-son teams go hed to head against eachother with hom-made remote control robots, each with their own unique weapons systems, whilst professionally-made 'House Robots' such as the flamethrower-wielding 'Sgt. Bash' and the big, tanktracked 'Sir Killalot' help keep things interesting from the sidelines. Many of the home-made robots were rubbish, and there was fun to be had watching technophiles' pride and joys getting smashed to bits and fried in the space of seconds, especially at the hands of the more professionally ..  Read the complete review

Robot Wars was a classic TV show at the height of its fame, and although it doesn't air anymore, it still remains in the collective cultural consciousness, and managed to generate frequently high numbers for the Beeb until it folded in 2003. The concept is very simple; various teams of super geeks build robots, and then pit them against one another in epic battles, with the winner them qualifying on to a Grand Final at the end of the series. The arena had various obstacles such as fire, spikes, and moving platforms, meaning that those controlling the robot had to be very careful. Also, there are House Bots that run rampant around the arena, such as Sr. Kill A ...  Read the complete review

Original presenter Jeremy Clarkson was quickly dropped and in Craig Charles hands the programme has a little more humour though some of his scripted introductions and poetic round-ups are a bit feeble. The commentator is Jonathan Pearce who is the easily excitable football commentator from Channel 5. Pearce obviously gets his name from what he does to your ear-drums. With some of the 'wars' though the lack of any discernable aggression from the robots means Pearce has to earn his crust to make it exciting. Phillipa Forrester has now left to be replaced by another navel showing young lady. The task of this lady is to interview the contestants to see what ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those shows when I first heard about it I thought it would be just for blokes who never quite grew up or speccy nerds who rather than take up boxing would rather build fighting robots to take the hits for them, well some of the contestants may fit this bill but the show itself is pretty good entertainment. Hosted by Craig Charles of Red Dwarf, Coronation Street and a few sex and drugs scandals the show has a number of contestants who design and build mechanised fihting machines with the sole objective of smashing their opponent to pieces. Some of the creations are pretty wierd and certainly are well armed with pneumatic flippers, axes and spikes ...  Read the complete review