Since ‘50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy’ completed airing on Sky 1 only recently, Irish host Baz Ashmawy has already landed a second gig for the channel – ‘The Fanatics’, an 8x60 minute series on obsessive fans from Victory Television.
Each episode of ‘The Fanatics’ has a group of “super fans” who will “do battle in a high-tension, high-stakes game show that puts their knowledge to the ultimate test.” Based on the original format from Workpoint Entertainment, the series was commissioned by Director of Sky 1 Adam MacDonald and Sky Entertainment Commissioner Chris Brogden.
Adam MacDonald, Director of Sky 1 commented: “We are excited that Baz has agreed to host The Fanatics. It is a big joyous celebration of the passions that enthral us and Baz is perfect to drive it.”
“I love the vision that Sky and the production team at Victory have for the show,” says Baz. “It's a quirky fun show with wonderfully warm, interesting and slightly obsessive contestants. It's going to be a lot of fun to make. I can’t wait!”
Baz Ashmawy, is an Irish radio and television personality who co-hosts Weekend Breakfast with Baz & Lucy on RTÉ 2fm. He was a co-host of the 2008 reality show ‘Fáilte Towers’ on RTÉ One. He has also co-presented ‘How Long Can You Go?’ and appeared in prank series ‘Anonymous’, ‘Celebrity Bainisteoir’ and travel show ‘No Frontiers’ before taking on his solo projects ‘Baz’s Culture Clash’ and ‘Baz’s Extreme Worlds’.
Hia latest show, ‘50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy’, completed airing on SKY 1 this week. The show is based on Baz inserting his 71 year old mother into various daredevil situations in Africa, Asia and the USA and her typical Irish mammy reactions to the situations. Israeli broadcaster Channel X has bought the rights to air ‘50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy’. Ashmawy's show has also been picked up by France's M6, Canada's Evasion channel, Poland's Polsat and Choice TV New Zealand.
The ‘Fanatics’ will air on Sky 1 in early 2015. It will be executive produced by Stuart Shawcross and Tamara Gilder of Victory Television, with Aaron Morgan as series producer.
