Knightmare Possibly coming back to Challenge
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As we've now entered an era where every British TV watcher is a potential Challenge watcher, the door is wide open for substantial viewing figures, perhaps even substantial enough to make a DVD release less unlikely than ever before.
To elaborate on that, Challenge moved from being Sky/cable only to Freeview as well just over a year ago, and virtually everyone has Freeview nowadays. A larger audience equals higher ad revenues equals new programming equals (potentially) good news for Knightmare!
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Challenge have mentioned KM again on their Facebook page:
"Hi All - everyone asking for Knightmare.. we are looking into it and any news about any shows will be posted on here as soon as we get the green light
"They also plugged Knightmare.com on their Twitter the other day!
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Ooh this sounds good! They've started following me on Twitter actually
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Speaking of Twitter, this has given me the ideal opportunity to get the Knightmare Twitter feed up and running again - have just posted a tweet regarding the possibility of Knightmare being re-shown on Challenge.
@Knightmare_CITV if you're not following it yet (though a direct link to the Twitter page can be found below in my signature).
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I have added the hashtag #knightmareonchallengetv to one of my twitter posts. Everyone join in and you know what may happen
I hope that these potential plans come to fruition. As mentioned by Billy, recorded episodes for DVD would make a sweet replacement for my poor old VHS copies.
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So did I. I hope it'll be worth it!
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One of the latest tweets from Challenge TV's Twitter account:
"There is so much love for Knightmare out there
We will try our hardest to make it so!!"God I love Challenge! It's incredibly refreshing to see a TV channel that really cares about giving the viewers what they want. You get the sense they are fans just like the rest of us.
I also love the fact they've been inundated with requests for KM to be shown on TV again... just goes to show the demand is still there!
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Hi all i can't find the old thread-
anyway i am presuming you have ALL voted to try and get knightmare repeated on challenge? Its in one of their recent facebookthreads, it would be great if they did, any thoiughts?
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have we all voted then? that will at least help there's only 76 votes so far so i suspect not
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The thing is, Challenge is now showing Fort Boyard again, so does that mean Knightmare is also likely to get a repeat soon?
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Hmm...could be
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Did they start showing Fort Boyard after that poll, or was it on already? (The poll says "original Fort Boyard" so perhaps they're showing the UK version and thinking of getting the French one?)
In any case, it doesn't tell us anything about the rights negotiations for Knightmare. But they were already trying to get it before they posted the poll, and they tweeted a week ago that they're still looking into it, so fingers crossed!
Someone should tell them to ask about TimeBusters and/or Cyberzone while they're at it.
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Another frustratingly vague yet nonetheless encouraging update:
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It's looking increasingly likely that KM will make a triumphant return, but like Dark Comet said negotiations are difficult. To acquire rights you need to please a whole load of people, in KM's case ITV, David Rowe, English Heritage plus a few others. I doubt it'll make it to screens in time for the anniversary but better late than never.
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