{"id":10325,"date":"2017-07-06T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:46:35","slug":"battlebots-heads-to-science-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"BattleBots Heads to Science Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science Channel has licensed the off-network cable rights for 16 episodes of ABC\u2019s reboot of the robot-fighting series\u00a0<em>BattleBots<\/em>, which will air\u00a0this summer<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>BattleBots<\/em> will premiere on Science Channel on July 12 at 10 p.m. The series features the biggest, strongest and fastest next-generation robots as they duke it out to become champions of a single elimination tournament. Each match sees two robots compete\u00a0in a single three-minute bout in which the goal is to destroy or disable the opponent. If there is no knockout during the three-minute battle, the judges will declare a victor.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode of\u00a0<em>BattleBots<\/em>\u00a0highlights the design and build of the robots, as well as the builders\u2019 backstories. <em>BattleBots<\/em>\u00a0is hosted by ESPN\u2019s Samantha Ponder, who is joined for the play-by-play by Chris Rose of MLB Network and NFL Network. Color-commentary is provided by ex-MMA fighter Kenny Florian. Alison Haislip (G4\u2019s\u00a0<em>Attack of the Show<\/em>) is the sideline reporter, while Faruq Tauheed is ring announcer.\u00a0Judging the battles are former <em>BattleBots<\/em> competitor and special effects artist Fon Davis, <em>Nerdist<\/em>\u2019s Jessica Chobot and a special guest judge for each round of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Channel has licensed the off-network cable rights for 16 episodes of ABC\u2019s reboot of the robot-fighting series BattleBots, which will air this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":10326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[811,241],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-battlebots","tag-science-channel","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BattleBots Heads to Science Channel - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BattleBots Heads to Science Channel - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Science Channel has licensed the off-network cable rights for 16 episodes of ABC\u2019s reboot of the robot-fighting series BattleBots, which will air this summer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-06T15:46:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/BattleBots-716.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/\",\"name\":\"BattleBots Heads to Science Channel - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-06T15:46:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-06T15:46:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/battlebots-heads-to-science-channel\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BattleBots Heads to Science Channel\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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