World of Sport Wrestling is returning to our television screens tonight after decades of being on the shelf.

The Press Associations's Rachael Popow previews the big body-slamming return (ITV, 5pm):

Many of the fighters, presenters and commentators taking part in this revived wrestling show, which began a 10-episode run last week, are too young to have ever settled down in front of World of Sport and chanted 'easy, easy!' as Big Daddy took on Giant Haystacks.

But that doesn't mean they haven't been hoping that the sport would make a comeback on British TV.

Commentator Alex Shane can even prove that he's been waiting decades for this moment. He says: "I actually did my GCSE Media Studies coursework in 1996 as a documentary about getting British wrestling back on TV. That's just how long I've wanted to see this happen.

"Since then, and in the 30 years that wrestling has been away from ITV, I have watched it grow into something that the whole world is now talking about."

So, he didn't have to think too hard about signing up for WOS Wrestling: "WOS is the realisation of a dream for so many wrestlers, fans and insiders here in the UK that for me, not being a part of this was never an option. I can't wait to see wrestling mania sweep the UK all over again, just like it did decades ago."

But what is about wrestling that Alex loves so much? Pretty much everything, it seems.

He says: "Wrestling is so many things I love, all rolled into one. It's a live-action comic book. A high-end theatre production with live stunts and jaw-dropping action. It's an amazing magic show mixed with professional athletes.

"It's sports and soap opera combined as one epic, larger than life production. It's death-defying performance art taking place on a giant 20-foot canvas. It's all of these things, yet something totally different, too."

He also believes that WOS Wrestling is a programme with cross-generational appeal - something that won't come as a surprise to anyone who remembers World of Sport in the 1970s and 1980s, when the ringside audience always seemed to contain a very vocal smattering of elderly ladies. Alex says: "There's something for mum and dad, just as much as the kids."

And he also believes that the new crop of wrestlers contains some potential household names in the making. "Justin Sysum is a real-life superhero in every sense of the word and the best pure athlete in British wrestling today in my opinion.

"Grado is hugely entertaining to watch. The son of the British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith, British Bulldog JR, is fantastic and just like watching his legendary father. Rampage and Crater will make you wince to watch!"

He adds: "Robbie X always surprises me. If it turned out in the future that as a child he'd actually had his leg bones replaced with giant springs, I wouldn't be shocked. The kid is incredible!"

And Alex's enthusiasm is certainly infectious as he joins Stu Bennett and SoCal Val to commentate on all the latest grappling action in this second edition, which sees the wrestlers continue to fight it out for the Male, Women's and Tag Team titles.