SOMETHING STIRS
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Is that it then?
Has 'Something' turned into nothing?
I guess so, that is for anything new and official on the Knightmare side of things. I read somewhere a while back that 99% of children's programmes shown in the UK are imported. Of the 1% that aren't, only the BBC are making/commissioning new programming. That may go some way to explain why any concept that Tim Child may have had didn't get off the ground. With only one broadcaster and banks not lending money, it was always going to be tricky. I suspect that like Knightmare was back in 1987, it was ahead of it's time, pretty spectacular, but unfortunately rather expensive . I would be fascinated to learn what it was and if TC fancies popping back in and letting us know what we missed out on...
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Is that it then?
Has 'Something' turned into nothing?
I guess so, that is for anything new and official on the Knightmare side of things. I read somewhere a while back that 99% of children's programmes shown in the UK are imported. Of the 1% that aren't, only the BBC are making/commissioning new programming. That may go some way to explain why any concept that Tim Child may have had didn't get off the ground. With only one broadcaster and banks not lending money, it was always going to be tricky. I suspect that like Knightmare was back in 1987, it was ahead of it's time, pretty spectacular, but unfortunately rather expensive . I would be fascinated to learn what it was and if TC fancies popping back in and letting us know what we missed out on...
Well that is is indeed a shame if that is indeed the case!
I agree, it would be nice for Tim Child to pop back, even if just once more to give us any updates as to what happened, or in this case didn't happen...
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it does look as though you will have something to talk about
This Daily Mirror article from today mentions Knightmare. The good news is that it includes an early publicity photo not seen before. The bad news is, unless I'm missing something, that it has quoted from Tim Child's 'SOMETHING STIRS' post of 4 years ago as if it were current.
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This Daily Mirror article from today mentions Knightmare. The good news is that it includes an early publicity photo not seen before. The bad news is, unless I'm missing something, that it has quoted from Tim Child's 'SOMETHING STIRS' post of 4 years ago as if it were current.
Is that picture taken from the pilot, do you think? I don't recognise the dungeoneer's jumper.
Shame about the Mirror falsely getting people's hopes up.
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The jumper's familiar from various magazine articles on the website, including some from 1987, so it could well date from the pilot, or from a dedicated pre-Series 1 publicity shoot.
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Someone care to scan the article and post it please?
I haven't scanned the full article (the link to the online version I think is sufficient enough) but I have scanned the part containing the bit on Knightmare - you can find it here:
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As mentioned by Drassil in an earlier post today:
The jumper's familiar from various magazine articles on the website, including some from 1987, so it could well date from the pilot, or from a dedicated pre-Series 1 publicity shoot.
Also, I'd like to point out:
This Daily Mirror article from today mentions Knightmare. The good news is that it includes an early publicity photo not seen before.
The publicity photo in question can be seen in full via this link, the page also features some other Knightmare pictures which I believe don't feature on the knightmare.com website:
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The publicity photo in question can be seen in full via this link, the page also features some other Knightmare pictures which I believe don't feature on the knightmare.com website:
Very cool page, hadn't seen that before! Wow, it's funny to see what Lillith's domain really looked like. Nice pic of Motley & Melly too. Thanks James!
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Shame about the Mirror falsely getting people's hopes up.
Well, of course, it's possible that they know something we don't. It would seem a bit odd for them to draw a conclusion from a very old thread, and not even read the latest posts.
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Thank you for the link to the TV Cream page, James. One I'd either forgotten or never seen!
Wow, it's funny to see what Lillith's domain really looked like.
Now that I had seen before - in SFX in 2008 and again courtesy of James.
Shame about the Mirror falsely getting people's hopes up.
Almost the opposite of what happened here.
Well, of course, it's possible that they know something we don't.
You may be in a minority in wanting to give a tabloid newspaper the benefit of the doubt! You yourself passed on the information 'from reliable sources that Tim Child has officially "retired"', so I suppose it's up to you whether you deem the Daily Mirror equally reliable.
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Oh, I don't want to give them the benefit of the doubt at all.
I'm just saying it's possible that, for example, they've spoken to Tim Child. We don't know, for example, that they're actually referring to this thread.
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Now that I had seen before - in SFX in 2008 and again courtesy of James.
Hmm, not sure if I'd seen those SFX scans before - the pics of the studio layout and the Brollachan V-Actor headset look familiar, but not the Series 3 group photo. Is the text available to read anywhere?
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Hmm, not sure if I'd seen those SFX scans before - the pics of the studio layout and the Brollachan V-Actor headset look familiar, but not the Series 3 group photo. Is the text available to read anywhere?
Took me a while to dig the magazine back out and type up all the text contained within the article, but you can now read the SFX 2008 piece as it was written word for word by clicking on the link below:
http://www.knightmare.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2294&p=44049#p44049
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Yesterday I interviewed Tim for the 25th anniversary documentary.
It was another short-notice affair (he contacted me the previous day stating that he was in London for a short while), so I made my way down to see him without hesitation.
It was of course great to meet him, and a fine chap he was too. However, after the interview was finished, I had to ask him about the posts he made in this thread, in an attempt to seek some "closure" for us all.
His response was that last year, he met some people who were interested in developing a project for a US version of Knightmare. An American agent was licensed and Tim entered into an agreement with these people - after that, a number of interesting meetings occured but since then, nothing has ever come of them.
Perhaps this is also why he didn't say anything further about what could have been in 2008/9, as he concluded by saying that "he doesn't want to get people's hopes up". I also showed him the Daily Mirror article that was published a few months ago, which he immediately stated was outdated and incorrect, the "quote" that he mentioned was virtually taken from this thread for certain.
So there we have it. Tim Child will be in the forthcoming 25th anniversary documentary and some light has finally been shed on a mystery that had previously baffled many for some time.
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