<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[BBK]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Years and years ago, Paul McIntosh - through the medium of TES - started the Bring Back Knightmare campaign. Yeah, there were only 16 readers of TES, and so the campaign was fairly unsuccessful, but the concept of BBK started and was fuelled.</p>
<p dir="auto">This website, along with other Internet resources - such as NKTP, The Homepage of Knightmare, and perhaps most importantly, <a href="http://bbk.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">bbk.co.uk</a> - gave the BBK campaign new life, with the relaunch of BBK, as well... much more and widespread interest than before. The original petition, which ended up gaining 2000+ signatures, got absolutely nowhere, despite all our hopes that it would.</p>
<p dir="auto">Then along came Elessar and <a href="http://thegreatestquest.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">thegreatestquest.co.uk</a>, which evolved into Mystara and <a href="http://bbk.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">bbk.co.uk</a>, which re-re-started the whole campaign, again with new hope and a much more realistic goal: get Knightmare back onto our TVs, in whatever form.</p>
<p dir="auto">Okay, eventually we sort-of achieved our aim; Knightmare got repeated on Challenge? <em>and</em> Televirtual started making Knightmare-VR. This appeased both parties: people who wanted old KM repeats <em>and</em> people who wanted a new series of KM (even if the KM-VR pilot wasn't all that great, it was better than nothing at all).</p>
<p dir="auto">But we are stuck.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm breaking my lurker status and posting this here because the whole spirit of BBK - the guiding light behind the community - appears to be rapidly dissipating. If we take a look at the status of Knightmare for a second, we'll notice that Knightmare has been shown on Challenge? for some time, and that their rights have to end some time in the future - and that will probably be soon, as well.</p>
<p dir="auto">Plus, KM-VR, whatever you think of it, is not being made any more. Suddenly, the target of persuasion - originally Anglia <em>and</em> TV stations - has switched to the company that originally made KM, Broadsword/Televirtual itself. They got a huge Lottery grant to produce KM-VR, and we got nothing except a mediocre pilot which only prompted lukewarm interest from both TV companies and fans.</p>
<p dir="auto">Mystara is still running <a href="http://bringbackknightmare.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">bringbackknightmare.co.uk</a> (go and look if you're unsure), and surely we have hundreds of visitors to <a href="http://knightmare.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">knightmare.com</a>, AND to the forum, so why has the spark of BBK gone? And where has it gone?</p>
<p dir="auto">Sure, we are still making the RPG, but with that and the increase in fan-made videos <em>and</em> the number of people that are remembering and/or coming to view KM for the first time, thanks to Challenge?, surely we can do more than appease a small fanbase...</p>
<p dir="auto">It's time we, as a united community, breathed new life and hope into the ailing BBK campaign and reanimated it - we need to create more and more awareness of BBK, because the goals we were aiming for have faded, and we've descended into a world of petty squabbles and fading nostalgia. If we don't unite once again behind the banner of BBK, then we'll never get Knightmare back, which is what we want!</p>
<p dir="auto">We <em>almost</em> had what we were originally aiming for, but it's slipped through our outstretched fingers, and we need to catch it before we fall.</p>
<p dir="auto">New series, more repeats, DVDs, RPG, whatever... we need action here, and we need it soon.</p>
<p dir="auto">Let's restart BBK.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/1524/bbk</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:58:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/1524.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:58:36 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:14:05 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">(Crikes - it's been a while since I've bored people on the forums!) Well - the last 24 hours have been rather clinical and conclusive as to KM's future; and even though I've replied to Pooka on closer ground, I'd like to shed it here as well. I'm not as regular a visitor to the forums as I used to be, probably because there's a certain apathetic ambience that comes over with the 'not-knowing'. Now that news has come, definitely feel re-awakened, ironically so, if Knightmare is indeed to be put to rest. Please forgive me anybody who doesn't like cross-posting (albeit not on these forums). This was first reaction to negative criticism (slightly edited where relevant):</p>
<p dir="auto">"We appreciate, we have appreciated and will forever appreciate K.M. - amongst its biggest fans. And yet how on earth do any of us have the right to demand that someone, least of all the creator of the show we all love and which brought us together, has to yield to will, otherwise come under perusal? Where has respect and humility gone? I agree with what Tim says really - this news was not a great surprise to me. Knightmare was the bigger picture back in the late 1980s, and let's not forget that it wasn't his fault that the show was axed when it was - but it's also not his fault that the times have changed. Knightmare would potentially be huge current day, but teenagers have changed pretty much a generation in a decade. Not only that, but television companies have merged and merged, television is not what it was a decade or two ago. I've worked for Yorkshire T.V. before on a project, and been with the news crew of Tyne-Tees a couple of times ~ they all knew how quickly independent programme making would dissipate. KM is no longer the bigger picture, and although disappointed, I'm just pleased that Televirtual's new technological bigger picture even considered rekindling Knightmare as a project - it held onto the dream a little longer."</p>
<p dir="auto">Tim is a legend to me: as corny as it sounds, I've built a life around Knightmare and its fans. I owe all I have and all I am to Knightmare - trying to consider that any involvement I have or have had the privilege to have over the past couple of years is just a way of trying to give a little back. Anyone with a bad word to say about Tim or Televirtual severely bruises all the relationships built through Knightmare.</p>
<p dir="auto">I do firmly believe in the BBK campaign (wow - even got a small mention in related posts earlier [thank you!]) ~ yet talking about 'the plan of attack', the language and approach I've seen through this time has 'fashioned', it seems to me, some cult-led war against the 'opposition' that stand in the way of Knightmare's comeback, in whatever sense. Getting back on Challenge for a number of years has been a dream; I think it's taken for granted that Knightmare must have the same panache now as it did before, and it feels awkward to me. Some of this community does feel rather cult-like sometimes: and as I have been advised by asking journalists, advertising agents and a film-making advisor from the BBC about K.M. (&amp; the R.P.G.), continued, creative interest is welcomed; aggressive, over-forthright interest will put the cause at the foot of the ladder.</p>
<p dir="auto">Will leave it there - this is far more emotional to write than I realised - but now it seems there is a definitive answer to the future of Knightmare, rather than bitterness over the future of K.M., it will mean most to me that the ineffable, sacred, special legacy for what has been is protected.</p>
<p dir="auto">Love, Peace &amp; Harmony.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34221</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34221</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[KaM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:14:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:55:13 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">I just kinda thought Televirtual might be on our side.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">I don't think that remark's very fair. They've spent the last four years trying to bring <em>KM</em> back, investing tens of thousands in building an entire new graphical control system, and they created a new episode in order to promote a revival. You can't say they haven't tried. (In fact, given that, until late in 2001, they hadn't really planned to bring the show back, they've put a phenomenal effort into it.)</p>
<p dir="auto">Facts are facts. No TV channel wants to invest in <em>KM</em>, and if that's still the case after seven <em>years</em> of people campaigning for it, it's fair if <em>T'Virtual</em> get the impression they're wasting time and resources. Ultimately, they are a business, and they can't keep throwing money at a project that shows no sign whatever of getting off the ground.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm not saying we should give up all hope, but I wouldn't blame anyone who did.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34220</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34220</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[HStorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:55:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:48:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a href="http://www.knightmare.com/forum/http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2;action=display;threadid=2087" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Here.</a></p>
<p dir="auto">This really does kind of prove that Tim's not interested in any kind of BBK - or Knightmare at all, really - so I guess it's up to us to think of new ideas.</p>
<p dir="auto">I just kinda thought Televirtual might be on our side.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34208</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/34208</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooka]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:48:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:11:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I've heard from Alan and he is aware of the problem. He is on the case and the domain should work again soon.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33736</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33736</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Illusion]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:11:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:58:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Have you tried contacting him through his profile:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="http://www.knightmare.com/forum/http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=;action=viewprofile;user=mystara" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">http://www.knightmare.com/forum/http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=;action=viewprofile;user=mystara</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33694</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33694</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[JamesA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:58:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:02:57 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Don't know if anyone else has noticed, but the BBK site is down.  It's been down for a while.</p>
<p dir="auto">Could anyone with Mystara's contact details please let him know or if he does, someone tell me why it's down?</p>
<p dir="auto">Hope this doesn't affect the petition... <img src="https://www.knightmare.com/forum/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f61e.png?v=d0be30d29f0" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--disappointed" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":-(" alt="😞" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33688</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33688</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:02:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:13:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I have the latest newsletter email me and i will send it.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="mailto:Jas107_@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Jas107_@hotmail.com</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33168</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jas107]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:13:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:15:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Ok i have a news letter wrote up for my idea on getting back knightmare. Please email me if you will like a copy.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks to all that are helping.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="mailto:Jas107_@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Jas107_@hotmail.com</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33126</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jas107]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:15:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:26:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I go to uni in Cambridge so could go provided it was during termtime.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33116</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elessar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:26:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:23:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Right, Jim is trying to get a meeting with Tim Child, but needs support.  He needs at LEAST 5 other people, 1 <a href="http://knightmare.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">knightmare.com</a> site person (preferably Nick/Illusion but I guess we can cheat and include the mods) and 1 RPG person to attend (Pooka, Forester, KaM, Kieran etc.)</p>
<p dir="auto">to be able to attend the meeting which will be in Norwich.</p>
<p dir="auto">Tim could still be interested in bringing back KM, but still it can't be certain.  We need as many people as possible to attend so <strong>PLEASE</strong> do your best and help us out.</p>
<p dir="auto">If you want more on this, join KM Chat tonight, and we'll most likely be talking more about it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Edit: Modified-Can't be sure of the month or date</p>
<p dir="auto">Please email Jas if you are interested on <a href="mailto:Jas107_@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Jas107_@hotmail.com</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33115</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:23:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:12:29 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Wow, I got a mention!</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33028</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elessar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:12:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:03:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I'm pretty sure I've signed it before, but, what the hell....</p>
<p dir="auto">I really think that to regenerate this whole project is a terrific idea and credit is due to everyone involved in this. If I wasn't so involved in work at the moment, I might have been able to lend a helping hand, but once again, fantastic efforts, and if you can bring this petition back to life, then surely Knightmare can come back to life one day as well!</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/33018</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[JamesA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:03:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:34:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Right day, wrong year- 4th September 2002. There was  a fault of sorts where they lost all their 2408 signatures. A few are available at Web Archive (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020109085839/http://www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk/comments.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">here</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020802130905/http://www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk/comments.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">here</a>) though, as you can see, not that many.</p>
<p dir="auto">Still, they have over double that now.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32908</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32908</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:34:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:48:56 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">If before 4th September 2004 I think will you have to re-sign it.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32906</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32906</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:48:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:25:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I think I signed the petition a few years ago.  Do I have to sign it again?</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32905</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32905</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[PunmiesterWhiteley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:25:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:09:01 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Short And Sweet Version:</p>
<p dir="auto">Visit: <a href="http://www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Sign The Petition</p>
<p dir="auto">March Outside The Gates Of Anglia Until They Bring Back KM!!!!!</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32709</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32709</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TuragaNuju]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:09:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:19:21 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Erm, can anyone who can read it please give me the gist of it, I'm very curious.</p>
<p dir="auto">(After reading short and sweet version: WOOHOO!)</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32637</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32637</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:19:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:42:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">My current musings on the situationa re now on <a href="http://www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">www.bringbackknightmare.co.uk</a> if anyone's interested.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32633</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32633</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pooka]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:42:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:02:42 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">You have my backing too, i'll try get some of my college friends to sign the petition also!</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32573</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32573</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Darren]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:02:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:26:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I think I'm slowly converting my dad, he likes the spoof of Bohemian Rhapsody on the "I had a silly idea bit"</p>
<p dir="auto">I'll try and bully my best friend into signing, but it'll be easier said than done...</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32566</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32566</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:26:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:03:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">My mom found bbk and then I went to see for my self and found the website then the forum. So without it I wouln't be here...</p>
<p dir="auto">I'll try and get some of my friends to sign it  maybe even show them some videos</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32561</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32561</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Snowwiewolf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:03:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:31:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I'm all for seeing this campaign relaunched. For what it's worth, you have my backing.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32554</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DarkComet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:31:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:35:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I think it's a fantastic campaign and I've decided I'm going to pester my friends to sign.  We should get a lot of support behind this.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32526</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32526</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Becxsmagic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:35:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to BBK on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:16:45 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">You've got my 100% backing Pooka. Lets try and get the BBK campaing restarted and re-focused.</p>
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/32524</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Skarkill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:16:45 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>