KNIGHTMARE RETURNS TO CITV
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I understand everything but this line. How do you know it'll be reruns from the beginning? (Perhaps I've missed something, sorry.)
What i was trying to say that its NOT a new series and that it is re-runs. Thats good for anybody that does not have digital Tv though.
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I guess what I really meant was this:
In the email they mention we'd have to chance to watch old shows like Knightmare. Perhaps they just mean one episode, rather than a full rerun of one or more series.
When you said "reruns from the beginning" I thought you were saying they intended to show at least one full series, and I wondered how you knew that. That's what I meant.
Sorry for the confusion.
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Twaddle, the original post.
Matthew Kelly's got better things to do with his time on the ninth day of Christmas, I reckon.
Grotbags and Teabag - ITV wouldn't be seen dead showing these with their 80's T-shirts and things. In today's world you'd never get away with something like Grotbags or Teabag, for that matter.
As for Roland Rat - it wasn't even ITV's creation in the first place! This rat appeared on ITV yes, but as part of TV-AM which is a separate license awarded to a separate company for broadcast between 6am and 9:25am on what was originally, prior to 1983, unbroadcasted hours. This has been the case since Feb 1st, 1983 when TV-AM launched, and is still true now of GMTV which has the contract until 2008. The rat is regarded as the saviour of TV-AM as it revived their fortunes and saved them their license in the mid 80's.
Knightmare - yeah yeah yeah, spent last 8yrs denying all that, they did.
Moomins - never see that again, thought it had been wiped.
Dangermouse - Cartoon Network have that now. Was this ever on ITV?
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I'm sorry if Stephy has this phrase copyrighted, but:
"GRRRR!"
If he's lying, I'll set Festus on him. And I've still got my green staff and I haven't experimented with it for a while. And the Brollachan's always hungry. Mr. G. has his club back. Etc. Etc. Etc.
On a serious note, people should really be whapped if they knowingly post false news. I just hope he's been misunderstood.
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The extract from the CITV newsletter is correct - see http://www.citv.co.uk/citv/newsletter/26_11_02.htm
I am aware from someone at Granada that its highly likely that CITV will be showing clips of Knightmare, and possibly a theme night on ITV2 showing various old shows. Will try and find out more details.
Hmm, with all the Knightmare Knews going on, I wonder what on earth will happen next ::)
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Aww, I was looking forward to using my staff. Sorry for the manic threats Bananaman. Problem is I promised Festus din dins so now I'll have to do my whole "shurrup" routine again to quieten him.
TimeGate, Knew Knightmare, Hugo in Panto, Knightmare on Challenge, Knightmare on CITV, Knightmare on DVD. Heavens to Hordriss, it's exciting.
Hmm, with all the Knightmare Knews going on, I wonder what on earth will happen next ::)
Hugo for best actor at the Oscars?
[prepares to write to the Academy...]
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Oh yes oh yes oh yes!! Old CITV shows on in January...could I be any more happy? It will certainly give kids of today a chance to see what they're missing.
I have just discoved how much influencial power I weald over my 10yr old cousin, Jason.
Me: Oh you'll get to see programmes that I used to watch when I was younger, like Knightmare and stuff.
Jason: I don't care, unless it has Puddle Lane on.
Me:I thought that you liked Knightmare?
Jason: Yeah well I can watch that whenever I like, I'll just nick ya videos.
I think thats almost a backhanded compliment to our generation. If nothing else he is experiencing programmes from the eighties and understands that some things were better! I am so pleased that I kept a load of my kid's videos or he would be stuck with the current dire trash!
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Okay, this is from vague memories. Correct me if I'm horribly wrong.
Puddle Lane was a series of stories set in a fantasy world. It was presented (and narrated?) by some sort of magician. I seem to remember he had a puppet creature thing. A dragon? I can't remember.
The story things themselves were animated storyboards and such, I think.
The only reason I remember it is because of the mammoth range of books that the series spawned. I think I had just about all of them.
Oh, and I think the magician lived in Puddle Lane.
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I really do wonder how on earth characters like Grotbags and Teabag were conceived. Just imagine the production meeting:
Okay, we have the whole Rod Hull and Emu in a Pink Windmill with lots of stage school kids format pretty sorted. But there's something missing... We need a villain. But not just any villain. An outlandish and over the top pantomime villain.
Let's call her Grotbags. She's a green skinned and green haired witch. She wears striped stockings and among other things, old dustbin liners. She constantly appears at the door of the Pink Windmill to capture Emu. We'll work out why another time.
But she's going to be so important to our show she's going to have her own scenes. In her own set. Let's call it Grotbags' Grotto. But for it she'll need helpers. Okay, let's make one a crocodile. We'll call him Croc, and Grotbags will always threaten him with being turned into a handbag. The other one can be a robot. Robot Redford, the kids will really enjoy that reference. And we'll give them both extremely feminine voices.
But they need some way of getting from the Grotto to the Windmill. She's a witch, so she flies. But she's not just any old witch, so she doesn't use a broomstick. She has a hovergrot, which looks like a flying vacuum cleaner. For the flying sequences we'll use some badly done Chromakey.
And Voila.
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Wow! 8 Years of nothing then BANG! all of a sudden Knightmare appears all of a sudden out of no where
I Just wonder what they mean by "Being able to watch classic shows?" Do they mean one episode, or a whole series, or what?
By the sounds of that letter even though it is very brief, it sounds like only one episode, after all it is only a birthDAY
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I think I remember Grotbags - wasn't she the green witch with green hair who used to shriek? She frightened the HECK out of me!
Puddle Lane was a programme and series of books. It featured a family of cats - Timothy Catchamouse and his sister Tessa - and his mother Pegs. They lived in a nest and used to climb the magicians tower looking for milk and end up falling through the window onto the magician and waking him up, and ending up flying or something. It was cool.
On perhaps a more serious note I don't think accusations of lying should be thrown about so quickly, Pooka. Do you object to seeing clips or an episode of Knightmare?
PS Kieran says he saw Grotbags live at the Grand Theate. His cats are also called Timmy and Tessa
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WOAH! HANG ON A MINUTE!!
At the start of last week nothing was happening at all!
Now, we have series 3 on Challenge at Xmax, clips/episodes in January on CITV and, potentially, an entirely new series!!!!!!!!!
It's like waiting for a friggin' bus!!!!
Which begs the question: DO THEY ALL KNOW SOMETHING WE DON'T? :-X
In any case, once today's viewing audience see an episode of Km, a new army of fans could be won over.
I RECKON CHALLENGE AND CITV ARE TESTING THE WATER.
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btw, Grotbags had her own series in 1991 I think. I remember 'cos on Friday's it was 'Victor and Hugo' followed by Knightmare and on Wednesday's (?) it was Grotbags. It was funny!
Puddle Lane, OMG, I haven't seen that one in maybe 15 years!
I'm gonna send CITV an email asking them to show lots of Km episodes (either on ITV or ITV2) and them I'm gonna get loads of top-quality videos ready for the big event. And I'm not talking about Xmas or New Year's Eve, either!
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