Are you not entertained?

"American Gladiators," that great Spandex-clad fight contest, has made its triumphant return to television, and NBC has done its best to make it palatable to the masses, recruiting Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali to host. If the 12 million people watching the premiere are any indication, it seems the reality format, which picks "average Americans" to battle with pugil sticks, has succeeded. The show attempts to evoke more human interest than trash-talk, and a good heaping of '80s nostalgia may be just what a strike-ravaged TV schedule needs.