Gladiators was curiously entertaining when I was growing up. It was rubbish, naff, the Gladiators were dreadful and Fashanu was annoying, but I still watched. When I went to Uni we watched it at Saturday teatime in that sort of arch, post-modernist way (when secretly we really quite enjoyed it). Lest we forget, those giant cotton buds they used to smack each other with was one of THE TV accessories of the 1990s. I’ll never forget, at our student ball, Eric Bloomfield getting a real pasting by his then girlfriend on one these hastily erected cotton bud battle places. Erm, anyway. Sky One, never one to miss a trick, is bringing it back.

There will be 10 episodes, and the channel is promising a real 21st century makeover for the show. Will it be as popular as before. Almost certainly not. Will John ‘Awooogaaa!’ Fashanu be brought back to present? No idea.