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The CW and the Roku Channel have teamed up to announce their collaboration on “Fight to Survive,” an eight-episode survivalist competition.

Hosted by “American Ninja Warrior” alum Akbar Gbajabiamila, the social experiment pits 17 competitors— including former “Survivor,” “Alone,” “Naked and Afraid” and “American Ninja Warrior” contestants —against each other in an attempt to survive 25 days on a remote tropical island while facing brutal conditions to win $250,000. In one of the most intense survival of the fittest competitions ever televised, the competitors battle one another for essential tools and resources in the fight to survive. The first season cast includes Yuda Abitbol, Nathaniel Allenby, Amal Alyassiri,(“Naked and Afraid” Season 9), Dani Beau, Missy Byrd (“Survivor” Season 39), Robby Canton, Matthew Clarke, Sarah Danser, Afften DeShazer (“Naked and Afraid” Season 4), Stephanie Gonzalez (“Survivor” Season 36), Keali’i “K” Ka’apana (“Called to the Wild”), Zane Kraetsch (“Alone: The Beast”), Christina McQueen,, Jonathan Monroe (“Naked and Afraid” Season 7), Makani Nalu,...

The CW Network has teamed with Roku on Fight to Survive, the previously announced reality series hosted by American Ninja Warrior’s Akbar Gbajabiamila.

Fight to Survive is one of three new series ordered by Roku in January slated to launch this year.

The eight-episode survivalist competition series will premiere Thursday, August 10 at 8 Pm on The CW. All episodes will then be available to stream on Roku Channel and The CW App on September 29, the day after the broadcast finale.

“By bringing together the best of The CW and the best of Roku Channel, Fight to Survive will be able to reach the largest audience possible across both broadcast and streaming,” said Brad Schwartz, President of Entertainment, The CW Network, and Brian Tannenbaum, Head of Originals, Roku. “By working together in all aspects of distribution, marketing, press and advertising, we will expose this edge-of-your-seat series to millions of fans in brand new ways.

Exclusive: There’s change on deck at Endemol Shine North America’s 51 Minds Entertainment.

COO Temple Williams is leaving the company, which is responsible for Bravo’s hit reality franchise Below Deck, after seven years and Zachary Klein has been promoted.

Klein, who was previously Vice President of Production becomes Executive Vice President of Operations and Production.

He joined 51 Minds in 2012 as Director of Production and was promoted in 2019. He has spearheaded its day-to-day operations and has overseen production on series including Below Deck and its spin-offs, which include Below Deck Mediterranean, Below Deck Sailing Yacht and Below Deck Galley Talk, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge and T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle.

Williams, who has served as 51 Minds’ Chief Operation Officer since 2014, will be leaving the studio later this year. Williams has been with 51 Minds since first joining as Executive Vice President and General Manager in 2009.

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Jeff Jarrett is strutting away from Impact Wrestling. The 50-year-old industry lifer has been sent packing as the company’s chief creative officer “effective immediately,” the squared-circle promotion said on Monday. Here is the breakup tweet: Impact Wrestling announced today that it has terminated its business relationship with Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Entertainment Inc., effective immediately. — Impact (@Impactwrestling) October 23, 2017 Jarrett owns Global Force Wrestling, which Impact had actually recently rebranded to from Tna Wrestling. Time to order some new championship belts (again). Also Read: How 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin Would Do on His 'Broken Skull Challenge...

This show's not called 'Broken Skull Challenge' for laughs -- it is really intense. No one is holding back in this Exclusive clip from this week's episode.

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s “Broken Skull Challenge” will crack open a can of whoop-ass tonight, when the reality competition returns for Season 5. The Cmt staple attracts some of the toughest S.O.B.s on the planet, as Austin is prone to say. The WWE legend is no slouch himself — so how would he do in the Pit and on the revamped Skullbuster? There’s only one way to find out, so we asked the Texas Rattlesnake directly. “I think if I set my sights on doing the kind of things that we do out here, I would do well,...

Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge is coming back! The series has been picked up for a fifth season, and fans won’t have to wait to find out when the series will return.Read More…...

“Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge” has been renewed for a fifth season, TheWrap has learned — and that’s the bottom line because, well, you know why. Season 5 of “Stone Cold’s” hard-nose competition series will premiere Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 10/9c on Cmt, we’re told. “Every season we’ve raised the bar and set new standards here at the ‘Broken Skull Challenge.’ And every season we’ve watched the finest athletes in America meet those challenges,” the WWE legend said in a statement to TheWrap. “But I guarantee you haven’t seen anything like the intensity of Season 5 of ‘Broken Skull Challenge.

If you have fond (or nightmare-inducing) memories of the dizzying heights, creepy spiders, and insane stunts featured on Fear Factor, then you may be pleased to hear that MTV is reviving the former NBC series for a 12-episode reboot hosted by Ludacris.

Fear Factor will return on Tuesday, May 30th on MTV. For more information, we have the official press release with full details below. Will you be tuning in this summer to face your fears vicariously?

Press Release: New York, NY (April 12, 2017) – MTV today announced it will give viewers the chance to conquer their fears head on with a refresh of the break-through series “Fear Factor.” Ludacris will host the new installment, custom-created for a generation that is increasingly empowered, while also more anxious than ever. Ludacris will also serve as executive producer on the project as part of an overarching deal with MTV. Filled with new stunts inspired by urban legends,...

New arrival previously served as vice-president of development at Cmt.

Julia Silverton has been named senior vice-president, development, alternative programming at eOne Television.

Based in Los Angeles, Silverton will lead all development efforts for the growing alternative programming team in the Us.

She will work closely with Mark Herwick, senior vice-president, current, alternative programming, eOne Television and recently promoted Benjamin Megargel, vice-president, development, eOne Television.

Successful shows from the department include Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta, David Spade’s comedy prank show Fameless for truTV and Nellyville for Bet.

In her previous role as vice-president of development at Cmt, Silverton oversaw the production of scripted and unscripted series for Cmt, including Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge.

She launched the scripted department by overseeing Cmt’s first 30-minute comedy, followed by Sun Records, a period drama about the iconic record label. Before joining Cmt, she was a showrunner for more than 10 years.

“Julia has a proven...

We've got a cold beer for Steve Austin.

"Stone Cold" sat down with Et this week with a few bottles of his very own Broken Skull Ipa for an Interview Under the Influence, dishing on everything from delivering his signature "Stone Cold Stunner" to Donald Trump a decade ago, to the lamest thing he ever saw Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson do in the ring, and the rock ‘n’ roll god that once blew him off at a party.

If you missed our last installment with Florida Georgia Line, here's how it works: For each question asked, Steve could choose to answer (forcing me to take a swig of beer), or not answer (and take a swig of beer for himself).

But with Stone Cold in the hot seat, of course things didn't go quite as expected. Suffice it to say, we both finished our 22oz "bombers" (and then some) that morning and had a great interview along the...

Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge continues and this week the former pro-wrestler has invited eight elite female athletes to take part. Their task is take a shot at the new Skullbuster and see if they beat returning champ Cassidy’s time over the course. If you’ve never seen the show, the Skullbuster is Steve’s own personally designed obstacle course and it packs some serious attitude…just like Steve. They only get one shot, so it needs to be good! The prize is $10,000 and the knowledge that you are the best of the best. Watch Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge – The Girls...read more...

“Steve Austin‘s Broken Skull Challenge” kicks off its fourth season in November, and Austin wants competitors to know that he won’t be taking it easy on them any time soon. “The Skull Buster, there’s going to be a couple of element changes there,” Austin told TheWrap. “In those first two, three seasons people got a look at that Skull Buster and started training specifically for it by almost replicating it in some shape or fashion. So we keep changing things up so … they get something different from what they expected.” In an exclusive trailer for Season 4 obtained by TheWrap,...

Cue the breaking-glass ramp music: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin‘s “Broken Skull Challenge” will return to Cmt. Additionally, the Viacom cable channel has unveiled a shared Aug. 25 premiere date for new seasons of “I Love Kellie Pickler” and “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team.” “Broken Skull Challenge is the toughest show on television and you can bet your bottom dollar Season 4 will be totally off the charts,” Austin told TheWrap. Also Read: WWE's Stone Cold Steve Austin Slams 'Motherf-kers' Who Don't Agree With Gay Marriage (Audio) “‘Broken Skull Challenge’ set a new bar for competition series that both inspire and drive its fans,...

Cmt today announced premiere dates for a pair of docuseries and renewed a competition show for athletes. Set to premiere August 25 are Season 2 of I Love Kellie Pickler and Season 11 of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, and the cable net announced a fourth-season pickup for Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge. "Cmt's unscripted series mirror the optimism and passion of our fans," said Jayson Dinsmore, Evp Development. "Our shows are smart, spirited and play…...

The 68th annual Directors Guild of America Awards have just concluded with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu winning the guild’s top prize for his brilliant work on The Revenant, officially making him the new frontrunner for the Best Director Oscar (the winner here goes on to win the Oscar about 90% of the time).

This is quite a welcome and monumental event, as it makes Inarritu the first director ever to win the DGA’s Feature Film award twice in a row. However, what’s more pressing is what this means in the context of the awards race. As I noted earlier, in the instances where the PGA, DGA, and SAG have split their top awards, and the DGA winner is popular enough to go on to win the corresponding Oscar, their film has also gone on to win Best Picture. Not only would this make Inarritu the first director to win...

After announcing the nominees for best film direction yesterday, the Directors Guild of America revealed the slate for TV direction in dramas and comedies today.

"Game of Thrones" seeks to add to its trophy haul for David Nutter's direction of the season 5 finale, "Mother's Mercy," which won an Emmy last September. But HBO's epic fantasy series will be challenged by the series finale of "Mad Men," directed by creator Matthew Weiner.

On the comedy side, "Transparent" will vie with the usual suspects, "Veep" and "Silicon Valley." Here is the full list of nominees:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series

Michael Engler

Downton Abbey, "Episode 8" (PBS)

Lesli Linka Glatter

Homeland, "The Tradition of Hospitality" (Showtime)

David Nutter

Game of Thrones, "Mother's Mercy" (HBO)

Steven Soderbergh

The Knick, "Williams and Walker" (Cinemax)

Matthew Weiner

Mad Men, "Person to Person" (AMC)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series

Chris Addison

Veep, "Election Night" (HBO)

Louis C.K.

Louie,...

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin may no longer appear in the squared circle, but the WWE legend is staying in the fight game any way he can. On this weekend’s episode of his Cmt series “Broken Skull Challenge,” the Rattlesnake referees a little “trench warfare” between Khurtis Maasch (Age 26, 6 ft. 5 in., 225 lbs.), the biggest dude there, and Dustin Sherer (Age 27, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs.), who may be the craziest. In the above clip, which is exclusive to TheWrap, Dustin promises “Intensity, an explosion, and Violence!” Also Read: How 5 Former WWE Stars Took Careers From the Top...

Steve Austin is honoring veterans by giving them a shot at Broken Skull Challenge glory.

Austin has stacked the season 3 premiere of his Cmt competition show with veterans, and in an exclusive clip, two of the toughest give it their all to be the first to capture a sandbag and then struggle to ring a bell to signal they are victorious – but the results are painful for one.

"They are serious, hardcore competitors and they are great athletes," Austin tells People of working with the group of veterans for the show. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for all of those men and women,...

A week and a half after the picket lines went up at the offices of 51 Minds Entertainment, the union and the production company for Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge have reached a deal. Agreed to late last night, the Iatse contract sees the post-crew back at work today with enshrined health and pension benefits. “The unfair employment letters issued against the production company 51 Minds Entertainment (currently producing Broken Skull Ranch Challenge), and rGear…...

The union has just thrown the WWE Hall Of Famer's reality show to the mat. Demanding an Iatse contract, the crew of Cmt's Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge has walked off the job this morning. Representing both production and postproduction workers on the show, the Motion Picture Editor's Guild and Iatse are putting up a picket line outside the Laurel Canyon Boulevard offices of series producer 51 Minds Entertainment. The crew of @SteveAustinBSR‘s #BrokenSkullChalleng…...

Can I get a "Hell yeah!" Wrestling fans should be rejoicing this morning as 2K has revealed that the one and only Stone Cold Steve Austin is the cover athlete for WWE 2K16 and will be featured throughout the game. Come inside to learn more.

I'm going to be honest here, wrestling just isn't what it used to be. I watched it all the time when I was younger, but over the last decade or so, haven't been able to get into it very much. For me, the highest point of the entertainment sport was the "Attitude" era, where The Rock and Stone Cold were prominent players along with other memorable wrestlers. So today's announcement that Stone Cold is on the cover of the new WWE 2K game, has me pretty giddy.

2K today announced WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin® as the cover Superstar for WWE® 2K...

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With the recent ongoing reports of tension between Steve Austin and his Vince McMahon, “Stone Cold” once again took to the platform of his podcast to address the rumors. It was previously reported that there was eat stemming from Austin electing not to appear at WrestleMania 31 despite WWE’s understanding that he would be in attendance, as well as his decision to decline the offer to return as the host of the reality series Tough Enough.

In a previous episode, Austin attempted to put those rumors to rest by assuring his listeners that there were no bad feelings between he and his former employer, citing the WrestleMania report as being incorrect and claiming that the Tough Enough issue was nothing more than a scheduling conflict with his own show, The Broken Skull Challenge.

Several days ago the story began to shift, this time alleging that the two parties...

Cmt presented an ambitious slate of new and returning series and specials during its Upfront presentation to advertisers at New York City’s Times Center on Thursday. Highlights of that slate include an original scripted comedy starring Billy Ray Cyrus, a new reality series following “American Idol” champ Kellie Pickler, its first late-night talk show, produced by Chelsea Handler, and a series following Nascar to be narrated by Dale Earnhardt Jr. In addition, it has renewed “Party Down South,” “Party Down South 2” and “Steve Austin‘s Broken Skull Challenge.” “Cmt is on fire. We are producing more original content than ever before and.

Cmt is joining the late-night fray and getting back into the scripted space. The Viacom-owned cable network announced Thursday that it has ordered its first-ever nightly talk show, handing out a series pickup to The Josh Wolf Show, while also green-lighting four other new series including a scripted comedy starring Billy Ray Cyrus and unscripted series featuring Kellie Pickler and YouTube breakout Ed Bassmaster. Also returning to the country-themed network are new seasons of Party Down South, Party Down South, Party Down South 2 as well as Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, all which will

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Directors Guild President Paris Barclay has announced the TV, documentary and commercial nominees for this year's DGA Awards. “The spectrum of directorial excellence across today's nine television and documentary categories is revelatory for the breadth and depth in what each of these women and men have directed – from 30-second commercials to multi-hour miniseries,” said Barclay in a statement. “As fellow filmmakers, we’re inspired by the quality, imagination and creativity demonstrated by these impressive nominees; as audience members, we’re incredibly fortunate to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Our congratulations to all of the nominees.” First-time nominees include Jodie Foster ("House of Cards," "Orange is the New Black"), Cary Fukunaga ("True Detective"), Mike Judge ("Silicon Valley"), Lisa Cholodenko ("Olive Kitteridge"), Michael Wilson ("The Trip to Bountiful") and Jill Soloway ("Transparent"). Winners will be announced Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles at a ceremony hosted by Jane Lynch.

The Directors Guild of America announced its television, commercial and documentary nominations on Wednesday, with Jodie Foster receiving a pair of nods for directing episodes of the drama series “House of Cards” and the comedy series “Orange Is the New Black.”

The Oscar-winning actress is the only director to be nominated in both the drama and comedy categories. In drama, she will be competing with Dan Attias and Lesli Linka Glatter for two different episodes of “Homeland,” Cary Joji Fukunaga for “True Detective” and Alex Graves for “Game of Thrones.”

See photos: Golden Globe Awards: Winners Gallery (Photos)

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Based on reader feedback from our original blog it appears several of you think you’ve got what it takes to get to the Skullbuster. You’ve seen the course and some of the first competitors and now you need to know how to get on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, right?! Well, according to publicists at Cmt anyone who is interested in competing on the show (or, really, any of their shows) you can register at www.cmt.com/shows/casting. Here you will find a form to complete where you will need to answer the basic questions on who you are, where you live, … Continue reading →

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American Ninja Warrior, meet your new competition — Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, a 10-episode competition series debuting on Cmt Sunday, July 6, at 9pm Et/Pt. The show and its “Skullbuster” obstacle course are the brainchild of wrestling legend Steve Austin, who wanted to bring a new level of competition to TV. “I love doing serious, hardcore competition, so I wanted to come up with an even tougher version of competition [referring to his other Cmt series, Redneck Island] — only take out the drama and make it all about the action,” Austin says. “We came up with this concept … Continue reading →

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If you are fan of grunting, sweating, and hardbodies crashing into each other, Steve Austin has a show for you. After hosting Redneck Island on Cmt for three seasons, the WWE Hall of Famer takes the reins–and ropes–of another reality competition on the network: Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, which “makes CrossFit look like a yoga retreat,” says the Stone Cold one himself.

Eight contestants–made up of elite athletes and amateur badasses–test their strength and stamina by squaring off in a series of grueling tests named things like the Pulverizer and The Junkyard. When the...