THE BBC has announced a major schedule shakeup as a huge Saturday night TV favourite is ditched.
Bosses at the publicly funded corporation are clearing the schedules to air even more sporting coverage
They’re dedicating BBC One‘s early evening output on Saturday, March 29th to live football coverage.
Brighton and Hove Albion are set to play Nottingham Forrest in the FA Cup quarter-finals
Dedicated coverage is scheduled to kick off from 5pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
Normal programming will be off air until 7:30pm, when it resumes with BBC News at 10’s bulletin.
It means the semi-finals of the second series of Gladiators‘ reboot have been halted until Saturday, April 5.
Despite the changes, fans will still be able to tune into The Weakest Link, Casualty and Dope Girls as normal on Saturday evening.
Whilst fans will have to wait an extra week to see all the action that is set to go down on Gladiators – it was revealed earlier this week that hosts Bradley and Barney Walsh had been banned from taking part in the show’s many different challenges.
Speaking on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with The National Lottery on Virgin Radio UK, the pair told how show bosses go to great lengths stopping them trying the infamous challenges.
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To which Barney replied: “No, no and I wish I got to because I’d love to have a go at that stuff.
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“I think that’s such an exciting thing to do… the zip line from the top to the bottom I think that’s so cool.”
Continuing, the duo were asked whether they could use the show’s pugil sticks.
Barney answered: “No, we can’t do any of it.”
The Chase presenter Bradley added: “They won’t let you up on the podium, even though there’s crash mats.”