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March 11th, 2008 Administrator

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Battlebots – The Return of a Favorite

by Andrew McCaskey
You can never go wrong combining the best of couch potato television and abuse of machinery. That, according to Wikipedia, was the downfall of the original Battlebots on Comedy Central – taking the eye off the ball, and putting in to much personality and not enough smoking destruction.

There is so much changing in the video space that there is still a chance to connect at least one part of the tech audience with good old fashioned crash and mash. It’s not good television, but compared with the past few years of reality tv it will probably find an audience quickly.

I’ll be glad to see it back, and get that Tivo filled up again with some suitable geek fare.

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