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BattleBots

ABC is reviving Comedy Central’s reality series BattleBots for us this summer. The show ended its run 12 years ago, and this version will be reimagined. A six episode order is in the bag, according to Deadline. This time around, the weight classes have been eliminated, so we might be seeing something like the opening scenes of Big Hero 6. (FYI: Genesis Rodriguez, the voice of Honey Lemon in the film used to do this in a club as a kid!)

The show will feature homemade robots battling for supremacy in a single elimination tournament format. We’re reportedly also going to see deeper looks at the design and build of the robots, and the story behind their creators, who are competing for cash.

Hey Grant Imahara, are you working on your bot yet?

 

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Jenna Busch

Jenna Busch is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Legion of Leia and has hosted and written for sites like Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, in the documentary She Makes Comics, on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and has covered film/TV/gaming/comics for years. She's currently a co-host on Most Craved. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology, is a chapter author for Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind, Game of Thrones Psychology and Star Trek Psychology and more, and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. There are also those My Little Pony trailer voice overs that give one nightmares.