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Featuring preliminaries in 5 cities and a final in Las Vegas, American Ninja Warrior, the US version of SASUKE to be shown on a major broadcast network in prime time
2014.05.21
Season 6 of the hugely popular US version of the TBS mega hit sports entertainment show SASUKE, "American Ninja Warrior", or ANW, goes on the air beginning May 26. This season the program will be broadcast in two-hour slots nationwide on NBC. ANW6 shooting began March 14 at Venice Beach, Los Angeles. This year the preliminary competitions were shot in 5 cities, expanding the scope from 4 cities last season, and finished in mid-May. The final will pit the survivors of the preliminaries doing battle on a full-scale course modeled after the original SASUKE obstacle course, on the strip in Las Vegas. This season once again, former NFL pro-turned NFL Network analyst Akbar Gbaja Biamila and ESPN's two-time Emmy winning sports broadcaster Jenn Brown will join Matt Iseman as program hosts. photo The 21 episodes of Season 5 of American Ninja Warrior were broadcast by NBC and G4 over 12 weeks last summer. The collaboration of two networks in broadcasting the same program simultaneously in prime time starting with Season 4 in 2012 was a first for American television. The program scored top-level ratings both in the 18-49 year-old segment and across all age groups. This year’s show will premiere weekly on Monday night from 9pm to 11pm on NBC, and then repeat the very next day from 8 pm to 10 pm on Esquire. Preceding the ANW6 debut on May 26, the terrestrial NBC network will air a one-hour program featuring highlights of previous seasons beginning at 8pm. American Ninja Warrior, the US version of SASUKE, is expanding in scope and popularity year after year. In January 2014, five of the top athletes from Japan and the US went head to head in Las Vegas in the first-ever international team SASUKE competition, broadcast as a two-hour prime time program on NBC. |
