Knightmare Possibly coming back to Challenge
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Fair point about paying for the rights. Knightmare is an old show and the chances are the target demographic is solely nostalgics, be they from the time it originally ran to those like me who picked it up during the first Challenge era. As a consequence I doubt Challenge will be jumping over hurdles to get the rights and will want a good price for them, and if ITV doesn't like what's being offered well...it ain't good.
Since we're giving out about the Daily Mirror I thought I'd join in. My parents have bought that rag everyday for at least a decade now and I used to read it, but then I grew so frustrated with it I just stopped. Articles are typical tabloid tripe, the columnists are real knee-jerking smug pricks, and as for the Sport section if I submitted articles like that to the programme I'd get laughed off.
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The worst of the lot is the Sun. Don't get their facts right. But this shouldn't really be about what paper is bad, it should be hope that Knightmare will be shown again. I personally think it will be.
I second that. And sorry, just needed to get it off my chest.
Fingers crossed Knightmare will be back soon. I also see no reason why it can't be remade. Heck, I heard that Total Wipeout is getting cancelled after this series has finished so they need a new interactive gameshow to fill that slot...hint hint.
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we just all need to make sure we support the challenge facebook page we all know that sockal networking is now v powerful but if we don't support/nag and show out enthusiasm and i mean ALL of us then it simply in a world of competetive tv won't happen!!
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It looks like they're still looking into it: https://twitter.com/ChallengeTV/status/260889231654793218
Let's hope all that looking into pays off!
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It looks like they're still looking into it: https://twitter.com/ChallengeTV/status/260889231654793218
Let's hope all that looking into pays off!
Look harder!! (Where's that LOOK spell when you need it?)
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Someone else asked about Knightmare on Challenge's Facebook page, and they replied "we are working on it and should have some news soon!" That does sound promising...
Whenever Challenge vary their vocabulary, my optimism is recharged. I would like to believe that they wouldn't be keeping our hopes up over so many months without a real possibility of a gold bar at the end of rainbow. But as fans, the situation is out of our hands; and until Challenge are able to give confirmation, the wait goes on. I'd suggest putting another log on the fire but that seems a bit insensitive at the moment, so I've made a briquette out of The Mirror.
I noticed in another of Challenge's tweets that they are working on becoming available via Freesat, which can only be a good thing.
Knightmare is an old show and the chances are the target demographic is solely nostalgics
You might be surprised at the genuine multigenerational appeal of Challenge's older programmes, undimmed from their original showings. It's quite appropriate for a channel that was originally named The Family Channel. I'd like to think that if and when Challenge reshows Knightmare, they will do so with the confidence that there must be so many parents, aunts and uncles out there who are itching to share the authentic Watcher experience with their families.
Here's a point that hasn't been made yet: screen grabs. When Challenge last showed Knightmare, their logo was in the top right corner. These days it is in the top left corner. So if and when Knightmare is reshown, it may enable the creation of composite high quality screen grabs without a logo at all.
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It might. The difficulty we face is that the quality of the screen grabs we have is fairly low.
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