The Gaming Underground

The Gaming Underground is an American esport competitive gaming television series produced by Firebasket ESport Television Productions, ESport Las Vegas and Aura Television Productions for Firebasket Tech & Games. The show will start airing in August of 2021. The show is a continuation of Impulse Fighting Underground and Fighting Ground that aired on NFGaming from 2017-2020. The show was in pre-production from 2020 until the summer of 2021 due to delays because of the worldwide pandemic at the time. Due to guidelines starting to be loosened a bit, full production will start in the summer of 2021, albeit still in a controlled facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Production
After Impulse Fighting Underground got cancelled in mid 2020 due to complications and delays, meetings started almost immediately for a successor series. When Firebasket bought AxiomTechTV and it's assets, it was announced that in the announcement video that Underground would return to television sometime in 2021, alongside multiple cancelled AxiomTechTV shows due to the pandemic shutting down production.

On June 8, 2021 it was announced that the show will return on August 2, 2021, almost a month after the relaunch of AxiomTechTV as Firebasket Games & Tech. Games included in the initial announcement was Street Fighter V, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Tekken 7, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone. Season One of Gaming Underground would last throughout the summer up to the early fall.

Broadcast
The show will air live on Firebasket Tech & Games in the United States, starting August 2, 2021 on weeknights from 11pm to 1am, Eastern Time/8pm to 10pm, Pacific Time.

TV Rating
Due to the violence level in the games, and the potential of language being aired, the TV rating will be TV-14 LV, as opposed to a TV-PG DLSV rating the previous shows had.