[SuperSajuuk]

It was probably worked out on same basis of how many people who do and don’t turn up for other shows. But perhaps a Gladiators audience is not like other shows and people see it as more of an event. 

Perhaps they’ll be moving it to a bigger arena for any possible future series and they could even charge for tickets. Did the original charge for tickets?

Anyway the set looks good and has the same feel as the original.

Maybe its just the image playing tricks on me, but doesn't that seem like an awfully small arena to have something like the Eliminator [the end of show game to see who goes through to the next round] running? I remember the original filling the majority of the available space in the arena they used at Birmingham, so I wonder if they aren't going to have the Eliminator in this revival?

I do think that if there is a second series, they need a proper 10,000 audience arena, to avoid the situation with the ticketing recurring again. I'm not even sure why they didn't just go back to the OG venue from before, now the Utilita Arena, unless they simply didn't have the venue available when they attempted to book it. It would have made more sense to go back to their roots really.