Bravo Takes FME’s Deadliest Warrior

LONDON: Bravo, Virgin Media Television’s British men’s entertainment channel, has taken the exclusive U.K. rights to the multiplatform series Deadliest Warrior from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME).

Deadliest Warrior has just been recomissioned for a second season in the U.S. by Spike TV. The 9×1-hour series features the history’s most featured warriors battling out against each other to see who is the ultimate in weaponry and training. Each episode features two warriors engaging in a hypothetical battle to the death. The spin-off, Deadliest Warrior: The Aftermath, will be shown online at bravo.co.uk. The web series features discussions on the battles with arguments from the viewers.

Bravo’s channel controller, Dave Clarke, commented, "Deadliest Warrior is an incredibly exciting series that will ignite heated pub and locker room debate around the country. This series is a thrilling combination of historical documentary and fight action, only America could make an historical documentary series in quite such an adrenaline-fuelled fashion. It is truly the ultimate incarnation of info-tainment."