Gamers

Kamen Rider Gamers of the new Kamen Rider franchise ran from June 2025 to September 2025. It was the first series produced by the joint-collaboration of BBC Essex and BBC London in cooperation with Toei and the BBC. It used the footage from the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Ex-Aid as its main source material. The series opened with Gamers Ready and concluded with Game Over. 
==Overview & Plot==
Gamers introduces the Game Riders who focus on retro games.
When a gamer-turned-doctor gets given a game drive thinking its for him to trial out, he opens himself into a new universe of wonder, mystery and intrigue to fight viruses who attempt to take over the world he knows and loves.
==Production==
Gamers consisted of nine stories across 15 episodes. Its head writer was Andy Wilkins who took control of the series alongside Power Rangers, and thus the series was the start of what fans colloquially refer to as the start of the new "Wilko Universe era". 
Under Wilkins' leadership, he was overseeing the production of Kamen Rider with Power Rangers alongside his project on Doctor Who.
However the decision to move the reintroduce Kamen Rider as Kamen Rider and not the previous format known as Masked Rider was so Wilkins knew he would be able to tap into an internationally acclaimed audience who would know the source footage. Wilkins did look at previous rider seasons from the start of the Heisei Era Phase 2 including W, OOO, Fourze and Wizard before believing Ex-Aid would be the most suitable to relaunch the franchise in a new world and a new market.
Wilkins would decide to implement a mini-series of sorts to implement past riders into Kamen Rider canon as a chance for new fans to catch up.
==Cast==
Designation 	Name 	Actor
Kamen Rider Ex‑Aid 	Fabio Bradshaw	
Kamen Rider Brave 	Josh Schmidt 	
Kamen Rider Snipe 	Erik Lowery 	
Kamen Rider Lazer 	Walter Evans 	
Kamen Rider Genm 	Omar Herrera 	
Kamen Rider Para‑DX	Maxwell Luiz 	
Kamen Rider Poppy 	Poppy Wingrove	
Kamen Rider Cronus 	Rico Rivers 	
===Recurring===
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===Guest===
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==Television stories==
===Story formats and arc===
Gamers would copy the format as seen by Power Rangers Train Force.
Episodes 9 and 10 would feature Kamen Riders Wizard, Fruits and Drive from the movie Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders.
===Episodes===
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director 	Notes
1 / 2 	Gamers Ready / Next Level Up	Andy Wilkins 	 	
3 / 4 	Josh's Jive / Level 10 	Jonathan Frakes	 	
5 	Galaxy Informants 	 	 	Featuring the Galaxy Hunters team who feature in the coming spring.
6 / 7 	Project Aid / Level 50 	David Yost 	 	
8 	Para Heights 	 	Sheree Folkson 	
9 / 10 	Driven Pasts / Fabio's Ghost	Norm Hiscock 	 	Features Kamen Riders Wizard, Fruits and Drive from Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost.
11 	Level 100 	 	 	
12 / 13 	Poppy's World / Gamer Laws 	Nathan Long 	 	
14 / 15 	The Last Level / Game Over 	Andy Wilkins 	Julie Anne Robinson	
==Stories set during this season==
=== Spin-Off: The Origins Of Kamen Rider ===
This spin-off series would comprise of 6 x 90 minute specials which could be split into 3 x 30 minute parts for advertisers.
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director	Notes
1 	The Original Riders	Andy Wilkins 	 	This episode focuses on the first five original riders from Kamen Rider to Stronger.
2 	Rebels Among Us 	Nathan Long 	 	This episode focuses on the second group of five original riders from Skyrider to Black RX.
3 	A New Era Of Rider 	Steve Wang 	 	This episode focuses on the new era of riders from Kuuga to Blade.
4 	The New Ways Of Old	Nina Metiver 	 	This episode focuses on the new era of riders from Hibiki to Decade.
5 	Finding New Heroes 	Scott Phillips	 	This episode focuses on the new era of riders from Mysteries (W) to Fruits (Gaim).
6 	The New Recruits 	 	 	This episode focuses on the new era of riders from Drive and Ghosts.
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===Audio stories===
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===Comics===
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===Short stories===
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==Promotional trailers==
For the series, several promotional trailers were created, utilising shot footage of and 
*Several short, wordless five-second "stings" were also produced. These showed close-ups of the Gamers Henshin Belt. No series logo or title is shown.