Spike TV Premieres New Reality Series RAT B*STARDS Tonight, 7/31

Spike TV will take on giant swamp rats in its new reality series RAT B*STARDS, premiering tonight, July 31 at 10:30/9:30c.

The half-hour project, from Studio Lambert and American Chainsaws Entertainment, follows "a pack of industrious guys dubbed the 'Cajun Commandoes' in Louisiana who hunt these elusive 40-pound menaces both to sell and to eat." Eli Holzman, Stephen Lambert, Royal Malloy, Duke Straub and Colt Straub are the executive producers. The network commissioned six episodes back in January (read the story).

An invasive species of giant swamp rats are ravaging America’s Southern wetlands and are especially dangerous to the tenuous ecological system of the Mississippi delta region. This non-scripted series follows a pack of industrious guys dubbed the “Cajun Commandoes” in Louisiana who hunt these elusive 40-pound menaces both to sell and to eat. These determined rat hunters compete over a limited four month window to earn big bucks by capturing these loathsome pests for a bounty. The series is co-created by Eli Holzman and Stephen Lambert of Studio Lambert and Royal Malloy, Duke Straub and Colt Straub of American Chainsaw. They are also the production team behind the upcoming Spike series, “Diamond Divers.”