EXCLUSIVE:American Ninja Warriorwill be back onNBCfor a while.
Season 15 will premiere on June 5 and season 16 returns in 2024.
It marks a major statement of intent from NBCU unscripted chief Corie Henson, whojoined last summer.
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The Ninja movement continues, exec producer Arthur Smith told Deadline.
This year, we have fathers and sons and mothers and daughters competing.
Where else you have athletes rooting for each other?
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Where else you have women and men competing on the same course?
We have a community and theres so many positive values.
We keep making the course harder, and they keep getting better.
They keep training and its like the never ending quest for us to push the limit.
They started with building courses in the backyard, that was reasonably early in the run.
Now theres Ninja gyms everywhere and then to coaches and then to trainers.
Now we have kids, who say, Im not going to play soccer.
Its kind of like watching LeBron James in high school, he added.
Those moments happen on Ninja and we always have these really great backstories.
