On Budget Gladiators

"On Budget Gladiators" is the ninth episode of the second series of England Is Falling which aired on the 2nd December 2005. The plot sees the friends set up a TV channel to commission a revival of Gladiators which ends up with ITV buying out the channel and taking the money from both assets.

Summary
Frank, Steve, Carl and Richard become obsessed with the TV show Gladiators which they find out was cancelled in 1999, they decide to revive it but find out ITV are refusing to listen to any of their letters so they set up their own budget TV network to commission a revival of the show. It turns out to be a hit and beats ITV1 in the ratings and ITV tries to buy out the network and ultimately wins and then cancels the show to claim out the money made out of it and also shut down the network to claim the money as well.