Challenge - Only Series 1 and 2?
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As expected you were all pretty much right with your predictions of the reply that I would receive from ITV. Here it is:
"Thank you for your email.
I can confirm your comments have been duly noted here at ITV Viewer Services.
We have no plans in our current schedule for the programme to return however all our schedules are subject to change.
May I take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to contact us here at ITV as we always welcome viewer’s feedback.
If we can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us. "
Never mind!
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It's actually quite scarily close to what I predicted.
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It's good that you got a reply from ITV. I just can't help but think they could have been more open. The 'however all our schedules are subject to change' bit irks me. Regardless of whether their schedule will change, they won't show any series of Knightmare. They may show a episode or 2 when a special occasion arises i.e Old Skool weekend.
The best chance to see more series would be on Challenge I believe. I hope it's the same as last time when they showed a series (forgot which 1) then they eventually bought all the rest thanks to decent viewing figures and the fanbase.
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On the other hand, it took them over a year to acquire a license to series 1 and 2.
Someone was dragging their feet.
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Well, presumably any slowness will have been as a result of Challenge and ITV disagreeing over the value of the rights, so probably both of them to some extent.
I suspect that Challenge paid more than they wanted to, and so only purchased the rights to series 1 and 2.
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Someone complained on Facebook that Challenge tend to only buy one or two series of a programme and repeat them to death; Challenge replied that they have to work on a budget and "we buy a couple of series of lots of things to add variety". Which is fair enough, but doesn't bode well for any more Knightmare while they're still repeating Series 1 and 2. On a possibly brighter note, when asked about getting more series of Fun House, they said "at the moment we aren't getting more but in the future we'd like to!", so let's hope that applies to Knightmare as well.
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The recent announcement of the planned BBC Store (i.e. an online store where you can download to own archive BBC shows) hopefully points the way to other broadcasters. I don't think it's wildly speculative to imagine an ITV Store in the not too distant future where KM can be bought for keepsies without all the economic difficulties of a physical format release.
If this is planned though, repeating series on TV may reduce the value of the stock - a couple of taster series are good but you need to give people a reason to fork out.
Anyway, where's this extended geek week ep we were promised? There's an aching void in my Friday TV schedule!
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Went to settle down to watch the usual Friday night episode, or episodes - I always watch the repeat an hour later - and lo and behold it's been taken off ?
I see they have taken the week day repeats off midday programmes before this, which was bad enough, but now there isn't any Knightmare at all to view now ? To say I was disappointed, was an understatement.
What do they put on in it's place ? Some stupid Japanese gameshow.
Really not pleased about this. I've never really liked Challenge as a channel, but this time, I think they've gone too far. Really missed tonights episodes. -
Anyway, where's this extended geek week ep we were promised? There's an aching void in my Friday TV schedule!
You might have to wait for a special event next year to see it.
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Anyway, where's this extended geek week ep we were promised? There's an aching void in my Friday TV schedule!
You might have to wait for a special event next year to see it.
Sounds intriguing! I wonder what special event it is?!
Knightmare Convention maybe?
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Anyway, where's this extended geek week ep we were promised? There's an aching void in my Friday TV schedule!
You might have to wait for a special event next year to see it.
I hope it will also be made available to those of us who are unable to attend special events.
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My guess would be - and it really is just a guess - that an extended version might be shown at the Knightmare convention and then a longer version posted online.
I do hope so.
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A reply from Challenge on one of their Facebook posts -
Challenge TV Like we have said on previous posts, we only bought S1 & S2 because that is all we could budget for this year, we would love more but we think it is better to spend the money on a variety of shows rather than lots of series of the same thing. We tend to only buy a couple of series at a time, then if it rates well we can look to get more series next year.
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Let's hope that they consider that it rated well enough. . .
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Challenge confirm with smileys that they are still looking into getting more series:
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Well, it took them a year to get the rights to series 1 and 2....
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