Budget
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Sorry about my cheeky reference to you keeping props on your toilet, Mr. Child.
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Who would have thought my interest in the budget of Knightmare would have led to a reply from the creator of Knightmare? Crazy.
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Bring on the new series of Knightmare.
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Thanks for that, bva! Gargantua 3 sounds interesting. I hope someone sees the light and picks it up (along with the other knice programmes we could care to mention!)
Thanks also for putting our minds at rest with regards to atmosphere and tension in the revised Km format. I was concerned (as I'm sure lots of others were).
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If it's done well, it should be very good - there has yet to be a great game show set in space. "Scavengers" wasn't really very good.
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It wasn't. It had John Leslie in it. And a crap tacked-on romance between him and an android. And a supposed plot and chronology. A good opportunity squandered. Rubbish.
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Wasn't it implied that they were partners? I'm sure I'm right about this. Get Challenge to repeat it.
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Been watching Series 4 recently, and certain scenes must have been very expensive - the graphic sequences must have cost quite a bit.
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I keep thinking that if they done the eye shield sequences with todays computers, graphics and technology, they would be very realistic. I noticed that when the eyeshield was used, the dungeoneer still managed to go right through the middle of a door way even if they were heading away from it!
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Plus, when they went towards a tree outside, the advisors would try and make them stop and sidestep left/right, but the eyeshield view would just keep on moving forward and casually saunter round the tree...
Classic...
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I had just read the 'Series' topic on knightmare.com and it takes a whopping £50,000 to preview an entire episode... TC must be a wealthy man indeed... or is that coming out of Angela's budget...?
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I had just read the 'Series' topic on knightmare.com and it takes a whopping £50,000 to preview an entire episode... TC must be a wealthy man indeed... or is that coming out of Angela's budget...?
I'm guessing that when a series is commissioned, a budget is assigned to it, which the makers of the show must work with. £50 000 per episode was the amount given, to pay for the studio, engineers, equipment, cast and crew. This is where the new series comes into its own - with no need for expensive Chromakey technology, the costs would be reduced by quite a lot. This would make the new series a more attractive prospect, because of the lower budget. I think I'm right in saying that Km was very expensive for a children's programme (in fact, probably for any programme). I reckon that it was this (as opposed to the excuse of 'changing demographic', which is feeble because Km continued to pull in viewers during its eighth series) that caused the plug to be pulled ten years ago.
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