Well, \"Blue Team\" and \"Red Team\" notwithstanding, color me disappointed. Surely TWI is not so bereft of talent that this is the best they could come up with. And if this is the best they can do star-wise, then maybe the original Battles were simply a product of their time after all, and today's TV climate really is too different to expect to see Bradley Whitford and Jane Leeves in a Kayak relay.
Still, everything about the press release suggests that the modern keepers of the franchise have absolutely no clue what made the originals such a success. The appeal was in playing up the rivalries between networks (even if it was all a put-on) and making big stars look real. There's no rooting interest when two teams are divided arbitrarily, there are no big stars, and there's nothing \"real\" about a 10,000 foot swing off a cliff and something called \"Mountain Bowling\".
The host of the original was the biggest and best known sports announcer of his day. For the modern version? Yet another Access Hollywood correspondent nobody's heard of. And how hard up must they have been for talent when, in a cast of nine players (why does the blue team have an extra?) one of your \"stars\" is a supporting player from a failed show NBC cancelled LAST year?
