the main holding company what owns the rights to Knightmare went bust over the last few years. unfortunately young peoples media is pretty much fucked in some respects, ironically because of tech developments/advances youtube/broadband and a lot of things being free.
there are multiple problems – todays youth don’t have the money they once did compared with even the 90s, they are also less susceptible to advertising and/or know how to block it out, and what ad revenue remains is split across 50 different companies so none of them make enough to keep a programme going..
about 12 years ago when I was working in the industry and trying to move from engineering to production the old boys were warning me of all this – I thought they were being overly pessimistic but in hindsight they were 100% right. in some ways though its a good thing I ended up soon after going back into corporate ICT rather than getting a few months in a dream job only to see it disappear in weeks as that sort of knockback can lead to hardcore mental health problems/addictions etc..
a lot of locals were berating Norfolk Council for selling off the EPIC production centre for a relatively low price to a private production company (I personally think the Council might as well have kept it) but that was the only way of preserving the few jobs what remained there….
