Filthy Challenge
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I think you may be getting a bit hot under the collar for no reason. Challenge is a minority viewer cable channel with a perilously low programming budget.
For them - a dramatised adventure game like KM is very expensive - even to show as re-runs. In any series of Knightmare there are 9 professional actors used and each appearance is subject to equity fees. Then there's the format and writers fees/ It's so much cheaper to show conventional gameshow repeats where there are almost no residual payments to individual artists and writers.
As for ratings - it's a red herring. Challenge's viewer share is so low that detecting a change in different parts of their schedule is a moot point excercise.
I think you've all done exceedingly well to get them to shell out for a series of Knightmare. If they then decide to show some more, it will be quite exceptional.
The other take-home from this is that if you ever ask an organisation for an official explanation you'll generally get vapour. It's not because they want to lie - it's just that telling the whole truth usually diminishes them........
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That's a very good point. I'd forgotten all about the equity fee issue.
Ftn have been virtually silent, too (we've been asking them about acquiring Km as well so that those of us without Sky, myself included, can see it). Now I know why!
Thanks for your help, beveryafraid!
Much
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Can I just raise this point again, that it doesn't seem fitting that the Ultimate Hero is classed as a 'knewbie'?
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Oh well, fair enough. Thanks for trying, anyway.
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I've seen on other YaBB forums where you can set someone's post count and then replace the post count number with a custom message. I'm afraid to say I don't have the first idea of how to do it, or even if it'd possible on this particular YaBB forum.
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I've REALLY enjoyed watching this series, and I'd be SO overly stoked if they could get the rest of the series as well. I mean, I'd literally float out the window if they did. ;D
But still - as BVA mentioned, it sounds like a costly process. Maybe the DVD is the better route to follow...
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Personally, I would prefer a dvd release, but then again, I would actually like both...because i'm greedy that way and also indecisive damn librians!
The only reason for this is because I would record it off the telly anyway, but obviously tapes are dodgy what with there habit of getting chewed up frequently. I know at some point there'll be some hoo-ha about teh deterioration of dvd and how much better the equipment that supercedes it is, but atm I am in favour of the dvd.
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Well done to everyone who's posted on C?'s forum so far. There have been some really funny comments, but my favourite has to be Treguard's, which just made me laugh for ages:
*"And "Bargain Hunters" falls into Traditional Action/Adventure?
Class programme (Thumbs up). I shall enjoy that v.much"*
And there's also someone called BillyH who claims he never knew there were other fans of KM and that he assumed he was the only one.
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And there's also someone called BillyH who claims he never knew there were other fans of KM and that he assumed he was the only one.
"...The next logical step would surely be the 1990 Series, as I think that's the one that introduced the Elf sidekick who was rather amusing at times. Or was that the 1991 series..."
Well, I was masquerading as an average person, in the hope Challenge? won't decide that all the people replying in that thread are die hard fans...
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It was a great idea, and also made at least me laugh.
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