The Hollywood Reporter learns that the BBC has ordered a Saturday night gymnastics competition show under the working title Let’s Get Ready to Tumble.
The British Gymnastics Team
There has been no announcement as to a launch date for the competition series, but the show was commissioned through the in-house development department at BBC and will air on BBC One.
Charlotte Moore, controller of BBC One, and Mark Linsey, controller of entertainment commissioning, made the announcement,
“Let’s Get Ready to Tumble will feature some of the nation’s best-loved celebrities vaulting, tumbling and flipping head-over-heels to try and win the public’s votes. The complete amateurs will be given a crash course in the basics of gymnastics before teaming up with the highest-flying, gravity-defying gymnasts from across the globe to tackle never-before-seen, new-to-TV disciplines.”
The show has the backing of British Gymnasts, which the BBC said was “ready to turn the nation’s pop stars, actors, news readers and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track.”