User blog comment:Rammingspeed/Robot Wars, 2016 Series Episode One - RammingSpeed's predictions/@comment-4700688-20160719015934/@comment-29001736-20160719152412

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=battlebots#search A quick search of the BBC Genome Project (digitizing all copies of the Radio Times from 1923-2009) reveals that BBC 2 showed the first season in 2001, which was then repeated a couple of weeks later on BBC Choice, which then also showed the second season in 2002.