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Do you think a series of The Crystal Maze would cost more than a series of Doctor Who for example nwtv2003?
Fact is, it's not Dr Who - which, as has been said, gets international sales, merchandising, etc to back it up - that's the competition for being picked up, but "reality TV" and other gameshows. The closest thing C4's run to Crystal Maze AFAICS in recent years is Tony Robinson's Codex - which is a question-based runaround the British Museum at night, and which still needed to give explicit in-show mentions (which I thought wasn't allowed...) to the sponsor providing the holidays for prizes.
Really, what's the last physically-based gameshow involving large sets and no phone-in element that got a decent run? To even have a hope, you'd need to be able to turn around a large number of episodes - probably including some for non-UK broadcasters - in a year to make building the sets worth it.
Juicy Joe posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
I'm sure people would like to see it back, but AIUI it's far too expensive, even when it came to air first time round apparently the set cost Channel 4 more than £1 Million back then, it would only be feasable if it was a co-production between a terrestrial broadcaster and possibly a channel like Challenge, which has been mooted previously.
Do you think a series of The Crystal Maze would cost more than a series of Doctor Who for example nwtv2003?
Fact is, it's not Dr Who - which, as has been said, gets international sales, merchandising, etc to back it up - that's the competition for being picked up, but "reality TV" and other gameshows. The closest thing C4's run to Crystal Maze AFAICS in recent years is Tony Robinson's Codex - which is a question-based runaround the British Museum at night, and which still needed to give explicit in-show mentions (which I thought wasn't allowed...) to the sponsor providing the holidays for prizes.
Really, what's the last physically-based gameshow involving large sets and no phone-in element that got a decent run? To even have a hope, you'd need to be able to turn around a large number of episodes - probably including some for non-UK broadcasters - in a year to make building the sets worth it.
if not i'd like to see episodes pre 1987.
I hate it when the Gladiators clock is always blocked out by FTN and Challenge...
