It has been announced just a few minutes ago that a new six-episode long series of Robot Wars is to be shown on BBC2, although the only thing known currently is that a new arena is to be constructed in Glasgow, as nothing else has been announced.
Personally this has been long awaited, what does everyone else think?

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Jonathan Pierce and Professor Noel Sharkey are returning to the show, with new hosts Dara ó Briain and Angela Scanlon (Mock the Week and The Voice respectively)

The format has changed significantly from last time, instead of straight knockouts, two robots are eliminated from the first round, like before however the remaining four will fight each other where the two with the most points (described as a mini-league by the website) will go to the final. Five heat finalists and one wildcard entry will then fight to become the new champion.

The BBC has also released a media pack which also contains the robots which appear in the five heats, most are newcomers to TV to but have been around the live circuit a while, whilst some are returning from previous series.

Heat A will air on the 24th of July at 8 pm and the robots in said heat include:

Behemoth
Terrorhurtz
Razer
Kill-E-Crank-E
Bonk (Entered Mute in series 7 and Extreme 2)
Carbide
Nuts
The General