Knightmare

....I, Sarah_Louise, watched Challenge TV on Sunday morning! There, now thats off my chest I'll continue.... I’ve been meaning to write about this for aaaages! It was on Sunday morning, whilst waiting for Hollyoaks to start, that I decided to do a bit of channel hopping on Sky. So, there I was, randomly flicking through the “Entertainment” section when I stumbled across the word “Knightmare” in the menu under the Challenge TV channel. I pondered for a few seconds. Was this the Knightmare I remembered? Surely not. Surely it was another Knightmare? Well. There was one way to find out for sure. I clicked the ...

Knightmare, the best children’s game show ever to date? Well, not officially so, (in fact, according to the Channel 4 poll, it came in as 16th) but as one of the shows biggest fans, I’d hope I can clarify exactly why it would and should earn such a title! To introduce the brilliance that was Knightmare: it was a breakthrough fantasy game show which involved a team of four, aged 11-16. However, unlike the age classification for the participants, and the show’s inclusion in ‘Children’s ITV (CiTV), it catered for a huge audience, loved by younger children, adolescents and adults alike. It ran for 8 series over consecutive years, ...

When I was a kid, I loved watching this. This show was always a highlight of the week. It was great to come home from school and watch Knightmare. The show gained a bit of a reputation for being scary. It was almost like a cross between a quiz show and a videogame but there were important elements and rules that made it stand out. The concept was this. One contestant was to enter a computer generated dungeon (all hail blue screen technology)! This contestant was to wear a helmet that prevented them from seeing the obstacles around them, but they were able to see what was under the helmet. This helmet wasn’t to be removed in the dungeon and to guide this ...