Realizing their inability to compete with cable channel programming, one of the major broadcast networks gambled everything on this year's spring sweeps week. Secretly constructing an exact replica of an ancient Roman gladiatorial arena, the network executives order the kidnapping of last year's 12 Playboy Playmates. Their new mini-series, Survivor: Blood and Circuses, Playboy Playmates, debut on Sunday, the first night of sweeps week, as the most watched program in television history.

Forced to fight to the death before the cameras, the arena's sand was still wet with the life blood of the first night's six losers when the network execs, stunned by the shows record setting ratings, authorized a follow-on mini-series for the coming fall sweeps, Survivor: Blood and Circuses, Miss America...