Episode commentaries is a great idea! I think that'd be a must. There was a very good reason why we weren't shown leaving, there's somethings you're not allowed to show on Children's TV. >:-]
Giles
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Series 4 Team 8 Reunion - Meet the Team -
New short film from Season 4's last teamHi James
Thank you. That's fantastic, we made this for less than £200 which I think is about £39,800 less than the last 13 minute Knightmare short cost but I'm hoping we can do more with the pilot episode.
Best Wishes
Giles
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New short film from Season 4's last teamHello!
I'm Giles, the dungeoneer from the last team in Season 4. Rob (one of the advisors) and I recently finished a short film we've written and we're now looking for funding to make a pilot episode. Here's links to the film and website, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-dCKPIO2eg
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http://spookycastle.moonfruit.com/](http://spookycastle.moonfruit.com/)
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Dishing the dirtHa ha! Yes, there was abreak between most rooms. Though I have a feeling the block and tackle and the room that followed didn't use props and so they were recorded together. both those rooms were very intense. filming was done over 4 days.
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John Woodnutt condolence threadThis is very sad news. John was very kind to us whilst we were filming. He had real charisma and indulged our requests for him to put on his character voices.
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Dishing the dirt"It would be interesting to hear how your team's second chance came about, if you had one!"
I fell off the turn table in the first room. it was nerves really. I stepped on,lost my footing and went off. We went back into the "green room" area and as you can imagine the rest of the team weren't too happy with me. Then the director came in and told us everyone got a second chance and it wouldn't be good viewing if everyone died on the first level!
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Dishing the dirt"Every team got a second chance? That reflects poorly on the couple of duffers who copped it halfway through Level 1."
They were doing that by series 3. I assume they weren't doing it in the first series and decided to make it more interesting later on they let people get further. Effectively it must have become easier. I think some slow or boring teams got killed off intentionally. They would have been after interesting shows and interesting teams. It was in their best interest to keep teams that were entertaining on longer.
That's one of the reasons Brett was so enthusiastic and animated.
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Dishing the dirt
I hadn't noticed that about my surname. Didn't they used to do an anagram thing on Knightmare with names? Or am I thinking of Harry Potter?
Did you know every team gets a second chance?
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Dishing the dirt"By rights, you should've won - surely Christmas could've been delayed for a few more minutes?"
We hated that, it was really childish and made us feel really uncomfortable. It was filmed in mid august too.
"Talking of funny jokes Motley did a good one on your quest."
He was really nice. we spent a long time refilming the scene with the spider (forgot her name) and he was making me laugh the whole time.
"You must be 29 now I think (scary that you were on TV 15 years now.)"
28 now, I was only just thireen, we started filming the day after my birthday. there was a bit of confusion though and they bought out a birthday cake for my brother instead. we were too embarrased to say anything. can't imagine how that happened!
"So have you recently watched the quest on Challenge TV?"
I didn't know it was on until Robin told me. It's amazing that people are still watching and enjoying the show. It was really nice to see that we'd been nominated in the top 5 teams too.
"Oh, and yes I really enjoyed watching your quest. I think we all did. "
Thank you. It's nice to know we were apart of something that people enjoy.
"It would be great to get you and Rob in Knightmare Chat!"
What's that?
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Dishing the dirtThanx Becxmagic, was going on the info Rob gave.
Ross, Brett is my older brother. He was pretty obsessed with Knightmare and we applied every year after the first season. We got the the final selection for Season 3 but didn't make it to the finals so Brett changed the team and got Robin and Andrew on board.
the reason we made the block and tackle was that Brett spent alot of time "training" me on taking directions before we went on.
Everyone had clear roles. Brett gave directions, Robin gave descriptions and Andrew cast the spells. that was I only had to listen to one person at a time.
The Pickle joke was a set up. We came from a Village called Tiptoe and they thought that wasn't Knightmare enough. When they found out it was on the edge of the New Forest they put that stupid joke in.
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Dishing the dirtI was on Knightmare (team 9, 1990 apparently). It was alot of fun. lots of things happened that you never get to hear about.
Want to know why they never showed us walking away like they did with everyone else?
Want to know how I nearly lost my arm?
With the filming and the hotel antics (we got through five rooms) it was an amazing experience!!!
Robin and I are still close friends too, which is cool. Haven't seen Andrew in years