CMT Orders Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling

Reality Series to Pit 10 Celebrities Against One Another

By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/2/2008 8:19:00 AM

CMT gave the green light to Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling. The reality series will pit 10 celebrities against one another as they train and compete in a series of challenges, with one winner named “celebrity all-star wrestling champion.”

Hogan, who also hosts American Gladiators on NBC, will host the show and serve as an executive producer.

"I am excited to have this opportunity at CMT to get the chance to run wild with their audience. As I looked at the sports-entertainment landscape, I realized it was time to shake things up from the traditional formats people have become used to seeing,” Hogan said in a statement. The audience is ready for something different and more contemporary, and through my partnership with Bischoff-Harvey Entertainment and CMT, that's exactly what were gonna do."

The eight-episode series will debut on CMT in the fall.

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  I'm not sure about this. I mean, it's not a cold jump. Hulk went from professional wrestling, to reality tv with Hogan Knows Best. Being he has experiance in both fields, this could be promising. Airing on the CMT network? Probably because no other network would give him the time of day with an idea like this. We all saw how the celebrity boxing went down. But having Eric Bischof in the mix should help things a bit. Just like the skepticism with the new American Gladiators, we'll just have to wait and see.

  
  

  
  Steven Ford - 6/3/2008 4:57:00 PM EDT
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