I am planning on contributing. Would be good if there were some options around the £50-£150 mark, £250 is a little much for me and £35 doesn't seem enough. Might opt for a combo of items I guess.

I wish there was an option to get just the printed book as a perk on the campaign page. Not willing to pay £75 for it...If it were something like £20-£40 for just the book, I would probably make a donation.

I am not sure about the exact sizing of David’s proposed Knightmare book however I can tell you from experience that making a book of that quality isn’t cheap at all. I do a bit of photography and regularly produce photo books. Looking at the example shot of the book in his video, whether it’s something like 10x8 or 13x11, hardback, library binding, using top photo quality paper plus possibly a dust cover will set you back anything between £40-£65, maybe more depending on the number of pages. Plus, you can add on the postage for what will no doubt be very heavy book plus all your other perks (whether sent together or separately) and you’re looking at anything between £5-£10.

Anyway…I DID purchase the £75 offer and David has already sent me the signed A4 print (worth £20 inc P+P if bought separately on his .com), with postage at his expense.

The quality is stunning by the way.

I can't help thinking that there's a less generic, more KM specific name out there

The Portal - A Knightmare Covention

or

The Knightmare Portal

If you look at the shows on Challenge TV...Fun House, TNA wrestling, Bullseye, Who wants to be a millionaire, all these and more appear on YouTube (and have have done for some time) in either clip or full episode form and this has not stopped Challenge TV from buying the rights to show them.

I appreciate that this is no argument against the legal/copyright side of things however, that of course must be respected.

How many children's game shows have actually made it to DVD though?

I am sure you don’t need me to tell you that the DVD market is not what it once was due to the rise of on demand/streaming/download services.

Aside from Challenge TV repeats, I'd say an iTunes release would be the most likely thing to hope for now.

The owner of said items is very lucky indeed, there's alotta history on top of that there cupboard!

Ok fair enough, that's the end of that chapter. Thanks for obtaining that info for me Alan.

Shame

Edit: As I am not allowed to upload said remix, I suppose I can still tell you what I’d done up to this point at least:

• Replaced into/theme with series 6-8 opening (complete with dragon roar sound and dungeon door opening sound)

• Added spell casting letters, in their original font, on-screen as they we read out and added appropriate ‘magical’ spell casting sound effects afterwards

• Tension building background music was added to each room including further dramatic sounds to emphasise peril where appropriate

• During spyglass scene, when Lord Fear senses that he’s being watched, I added the warning/alert sound

• Added original goblin horn sounds where appropriate including at the start when Daisy tries to wake Treguard and also later on in the episode when they are being chased by a Goblin in a clue room. Further tension music added at this point also

• Original Ariadne sounds/music added to her scenes

• Further heartbeats added and emphasised during life force recharge scenes plus life force animation added in shot to show current status at appropriate times

• Original door/portal transition sound added to each scene (sound taken from a Series 6 episode)

• Lift sound effect added – taken from a later series episode

• Death gong added during Stuarts fall, followed by the original life force death music (I think from Series 1?)

• General cleaning up of the editing, for example where you see a jump cut in the Lord Fear “massive weapon” scene, I cut to the advisors listening in the chamber in order to cover the jumpy cut in the footage. Did similar later on in the clue room where they ask about the scroll, the footage cuts back to the dungeoneer at that time to cover up a jerky edit

• Added full closing theme from Series 6-8 and added the Broadsword Television ident and ‘bong!’ sword sound effect to close

Sorry to curb your enthusiasm, Insider.

But this would violate both the YouTube terms of service and would seem to constitute copyright infringement. It is also worth pausing to consider the effect of pulling attention away from the official episode so soon after its release.

It's possible that Tim (or whomever holds the rights) is happy to allow your video. I hope that is (or will eventually be) the case. However until I hear otherwise, Tim's previous instructions regarding copying apply.

Yes I was thinking about this to be honest and I do appreciate what you’re saying. I was going to clearly label it a ‘remix edit’ and link people back to the original along with providing full credit to them.

Currently, there are numerous Knightmare clips that have been uploaded to Youtube including full episodes which obviously haven’t been challenged in terms of copyright violation, how or if this differs from me uploading an edit, I am not sure.

Obviously if Tim doesn’t agree with it I will scrap it. I wonder if it would be possible for me to upload it privately and seek permission from TC before making it public?

I've seen more than one tweet from Stuart Ashen referring to the original Helmet of Justice as lost. It isn't: Tim Child himself entrusted it and other props to a member of the Knightmare.com community who tweeted photos of them as recently as 7 months ago and presumably still has them safe and sound. I could understand if the Geek Week Knightmare crew had consciously opted for Knightmare Live's adult-sized helm over the original child-sized one, but it really troubles me to think that Tim Child may have written off the original helmet, his helmet, as missing.

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short and sweet but i really really enjoyed it!

One thing missing- the death gong! it was very well done in the such short of space they had!!!!!! 10/10

Yes, it's not a proper Knightmare death without a "Booong"!

My remix edit, which includes the death gong (amongst a host of other ‘original Knightmare’ sound effects and surprises) should get finished tonight so I will upload to Youtube asap and post the link on this page (though bear in mind a 20+ minute HD video will take a good while to upload!)

How about someone remixes the episode to add all the correct Knightmare things, and get rid of some stupid parts of the opening? Also put the full ending music on, proper lifeforce, etc. That'd be very doable.

Good idea, I'm on it.

Seriously, what’s up with Lord Fear’s new head gear?! He looks like Dusty Springfield!

Any chance of the corridor of blades making a return?

Also Alan, can you confirm if there will be any more opposition characters involved in the plot?

My concern with there only being the one team is that I can’t see there being any genuine peril involved in the game (not until near the end of the 30 mins at least) because obviously they can’t die too soon or they’ll have no show. My guess is that they will want to show of all 3 levels in this one episode and play out the full story. As a result, my only worry is that it will come over overly staged, like a play as opposed to a real game show. Hope I am wrong though.

With the might of Google backing Mr Child and Knightmare, surely the sky's the limit.

A week and a half to edit the show isn’t long is it? Hope the quality of the presentation won't suffer as a result

The word is that the new episode of Knightmare will be shown on Monday 5th August. No timeslot announced yet though.

Enter, Stranger(s)!

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From twitter: They say it's being filmed in the original Norwich studios, love it.

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This is the best year in Knightmare's history since the show finished in 1994. No question.

Absolutely. The fact that we will actually see the original Treguard and the original Lord Fear do battle again in 2013 is immense. Whether it’s on TV or on YouTube makes no odds in the grand scheme of things. I will certainly be watching it through HDMI on my telly anyway!

I am curious to see what/who will return and what new technology will be showcased.

I am also wondering if the production budget for this will match that of previous episodes, I hope so.