SOMETHING STIRS
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tim@televirtual.com is the E-Mail address if I remember correctly.
I don't think that address is being monitored anymore. He does have an intermedialab address though, which is the most recent one I know of. Best not to post it on a public forum though.
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Its really dissapointing that Tim hasnt updated us on the situation.
Ive been watching all the old episodes on youtube the last few days and it never ceases to amaze me how gr8 knightmare was and how gr8 a new form of knightmare could be.
I suppose well just have to keep waiting for some news and hopefully something will turn up
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Its really dissapointing that Tim hasnt updated us on the situation.
Ive been watching all the old episodes on youtube the last few days and it never ceases to amaze me how gr8 knightmare was and how gr8 a new form of knightmare could be.
That's what really surprised me when I found episodes on YouTube last year. Normally I expect disappointment from things I watched as a kid, but Knightmare still worked, and I still found it tense and scary (although not to the same degree, admittedly) at times.
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Has anyone contacted Tim?
I assume there was no reply?
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I hate to be the bearer of more disappointing/anti-climactic news, but the InterMediaLab website now appears to have been taken down. The URLs http://www.intermedialab.eu and http://www.intermedialab.co.uk both divert to a website for a telecoms firm called FreeClix. I have found the following register pages for InterMediaLab;-
http://www.do-business.net/Indexer/Company/Intermedialab-Ltd
http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewlisting.cfm/55199
which appear to have been updated this year, but I don't know how many months ago. I can also find websites for another firm calling itself InterMediaLab, but that one appears to be based in Scandinavia, and I can find no sign of it having any links to Tim Child.
I think we can probably be forgiven if we assume that nothing will come of the 'stir' from eighteen months ago.
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Very sad news
I can't see this being the end though, Tim Child always has something up his sleeve and it's not been officially announced that it's not going ahead anymore so I'm still holding out hope.
And for all we know the InterMedia Lab Website is probably just being redesigned or something.
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Well, there's also the great wall of silence coming from Tim Child himself that nobody appears able to penetrate.
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And for all we know the InterMedia Lab Website is probably just being redesigned or something.
I'd like to think so, but I'm afraid that's very unlikely. When a website goes offline for redesign work, it's usually only for a few hours - most of that work is in fact done in the weeks before the old site is taken down - and while the site is in transition, there'll be a message explaining what's happening and asking the user to come back soon. I don't think I've ever seen it divert to a completely different site without any reference at all to the old one, except when the old one is gone for good.
Tim might very well have something up his sleeve, but again, past experience suggests otherwise. When he's gone this quiet for this long previously, it's been because nothing is happening, period.
Sorry, I don't want to sound like an old misery-guts, but the signs really aren't good.
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Hello
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but a winding up petition was issued on 9th October 2009 for Intermedialab Limited - http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59208/notices/941441/. This means that the company cannot pay its creditors and so is looking dissolve. Winding up can be voluntary (the company instigates it) or compulsory (successfully petitioned by a creditor) - I don't know which is the case here. The domain name intermedialab.co.uk is up for renewal on 18th October 2009 so it will be interesting to see what happens after that.
You may also be interested to know that Televirtual Limited was compulsorily wound up and the business was taken over by Intermedialab Limited. Also, Broadsword Television Productions Limited is at risk of being struck off the companies register and being dissolved for what looks like not filing accounts for nearly two years.
Anything further on this would be purely speculation so I think we'll have to wait until next month to see if Intermedialab is wound up and Broadsword is struck off. What I will speculate however is that this is not what was meant to beguile us in 2009.
Regards,
Tiggy
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If I'm reading that page correctly, it appears to be that Intermedialab is voluntarily dissolving since the petition is presented by Intermedialab themselves.
This is becoming more and more curious. From his original post, I had assumed that TC was working on a new project that was planned to take place in 2009. In which case, it seems rather confusing that the company is voluntarily dissolving.
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I have a nasty suspicion that the "stirring something" may have been the very thing that has led to this. If it was expensive in some way, and the whole idea fell through, it would constitute a terrible failed gamble; with both Televirtual and Intermedialab getting so little noticeable work over the last four years or so, income for the firms must have been very low indeed. And if they were making some kind of big investment in this mysterious project Tim hinted at and then nothing came of that either, the result was bound to be terminal.
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But wouldn't we have heard something?
It seems unlikely that they'd have taken a huge gamble that lead to the demise of the company without so much as notifying anyone for the last x months.
I think something else is afoot here.
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Another possibility is that Tim as hinting at something which was in very formative stages and that the dissolution of InterMediaLab (and, for that matter, Televirtual) was just a result of the recession.
I'm reminded of the speculation that surrounded certain sections of the gaming community a few years back about a possible sequel to Superfrog following the eponymous hero's appearance in several Worms games. In fact, Martyn Brown (Boss of Team17, the company that developed Superfrog) actually let slip that they were working on "something very bizarre with him" and several websites reported on it. However, nothing came of it and Brown later said in an interview that making a Superfrog 2 was "just a concept... they are created all the time".
I think this would be something similar. I'd have a difficult time were I to believe that Tim actually had something along the lines of, say, a potential new series of Knightmare, or even a way to do something new. He only made one, very vague, post, which could have been made on a whim sans prayer. He could have just had a vague idea inside his head. Just a concept? They are created all the time, after all.
My reckoning is, Tim never would have anything to stir us up in 2009. He may have thought he would at one point, hence the post - but I'm pretty sure he actually didn't get as far as he (we?) thought he would. As has been said, InterMediaLab actually haven't done anything recently - well, have you seen them do anything? At the very least, Televirtual worked on their V-Actor thing, but I've not seen InterMediaLab doing anything! - and it's entirely conceivable that, in the aftermath of the credit crunch, they decided the only viable thing to do would be to close voluntarily.
Sorry to be a pessimist, but I think that there isn't anything to talk about, and there's no company to provide us with it, either.
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Interim update - the domain intermedialab.co.uk was renewed for a further two years. There's no website and there's a possibility that it happened automatically - mine are set to do that.
I've also found out that Broadsword Interactive Limited - http://www.broadsword.co.uk/ - a spin-off from Broadsword Television were liquidated on 29th September. The MD was David Rowe, the artist responsible for the drawings used in the design of the early series dungeons.
The proposal to strike off Broadsword Television is still ongoing. There was a previous strike off attempt in 2008 but it was called off for reasons unknown to me - possibly a creditor objected. Doing some further research, if it is struck off and dissolved then the assets pass to the Crown. If I recall correctly then Broadsword Television own the rights to Knightmare - Knightmare would effectively be nationalised!
By the way, the last episode was broadcast for the first time 15 years ago today...
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With respect to the rights, it's more compliated than that.
Apparently ITN hold 50% of the rights.
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