WOS Aldis den?

[JNLister]

ITV Studios own both the trademarks and the WOS Wrestling company.

[Carbomb]

2 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

Thought my favourite supermarket had its own thread in On Topic for a moment.

Carpet retailer, surely?

[Loki]

11 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Carpet retailer, surely?

 

That's spelt A - L - D, ha ha, I - Double SS...

[CavemanLynn]

If this is going to be coming back, I hope they have someone with some awareness running the thing because the last run, in trying to mimic the stereotype of what your nan thinks American wrestling is but in a tiny studio with an autocued crowd, massively exposed the lack of star appeal in the roster. Also, if the point made earlier about the censor's problems with showing impacts is true (meaning they see wrestling as a weird paradox of being entertainment for kids yet too violent for kids), then the insistence on big slams, indie striking exchanges and (fuxake) ladder spots makes even less sense. It'll be interesting seeing what unfolds, but I'm expecting more of the same, with Aldis continuing his run of spotting past-it promotions with power vacuums at the top of the card.

[air_raid]

I misread the title as someone trying to type “Who’s all this then?” in an Oirish accent.

Edited November 17, 2022 by air_raid

[Rockbus2]

17 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Carpet retailer, surely?

If a British promotion wanted to get the Dailys Place vibe they could do worse than hold a show outside here 

[Carbomb]

Presented by Steve McClaren with his hair island, and Casper the snake

[WyattSheepMask]

2 hours ago, Rockbus2 said:

If a British promotion wanted to get the Dailys Place vibe they could do worse than hold a show outside here 

“Very cheap to make, do it in Aldiss’ Car Park. If you don’t do it then SKY will”

[Hannibal Scorch]

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Presented by Steve McClaren with his hair island, and Casper the snake

Catering provided by Slaughters

[Vamp]

It amazes me that they had two stabs at the cherry last time and both tines they failed to realise that a large chunk of the reason why the original worked was they hired an actor to do the announcing. He was able to sell it all far better than JR, Alex Shane or SoCalVal.

But yeah, if AEW are already showing you AEW why would you watch a cheap British knock off of American wrestling?

 

[Carbomb]

2 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Catering provided by Slaughters

WOS: A Whole Bunch Of Fuck

[simonworden]

WOS 3.0 clearly isn't going to work. What we need is another Transatlantic Wrestling Challenge with the same budgetas last time

[Merzbow]

It's all on YouTube, a more prestigious tournament than the G1.

[air_raid]

Not the TWC I want. I miss my beanie.

[Hannibal Scorch]

Why would ITV want this if they have AEW? AEW is cheap import programming. They won’t pay a lot for it but AEW get exposure.

ITV owning WOS means they own the show and IPs so could merchandise it. It also means they could export it. When they tried and failed before they had already pretty much given up on it before it aired. Crap time slot, poor publicity and frankly a poor product. If they have someone at ITV at top who sees the success it could bring with a decent time slot and advertising it could work. There is also a new series of Gladiators on BBC coming, if that was a success (and a lot was said of Gladiators appealing to the same audience wrestling was at the original time) I could see them trying to counter program.

Would it work, probably not unless those original production issues were resolved.