The fate of RW???

[steve_c]

All the evidence points to it, but no-ones confirmed it yet. So, can anyone put us out of our misery and confirm that RW is definitely dead?

[Guest]

The fate of RW???

Not for certain (one way or the other) until the start of the new financial year, when the channels decide how much dosh they have, and whether Robot Wars brings in the revenue. This happens every year!

[mc_blue]

The fate of RW???

Despite my complaining - especially on the RW Forum I would be really disapointed if there is not another season in store.

[Guest]

The fate of RW???

if not, Typhoon 2 will be the champion for life

[steve_c]

The fate of RW???

quoteNot for certain (one way or the other) until the start of the new financial year, when the channels decide how much dosh they have, and whether Robot Wars brings in the revenue. This happens every year!/quote

Unfortunately I have a feeling that wont matter - Mentorn shutting down everything to do with RW (the site, the shop, particularly the club that all teams have to join) together with Five shunting it around the schedules and putting up a crappy forum with a flippant attitude suggests to me that the decision to kill it has already been made.

[fluppet]

The fate of RW???

Ive been meaning to say for a while - C5 have been absolutely consistent about the broadcast time for the Saturday repeat. Strikes me that if theyd missed a Sunday and started showing the new episodes on Saturday/repeat on Sunday, almost nobody would have complained about the schedule...

Fingers crossed for next year, give or take my usual complaints about Mentorn events.

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Fluppet

[mc_blue]

The fate of RW???

...well if that is the case then we just need Battlebots to come back instead!

[Guest]

The fate of RW???

or someone to buy the rights to Robot Wars off Five.

Ive an idea, why doesnt someone with a large wallet from FRA buy the telly rights and ask somepeople on a show to show the shows. This will never work off course.

[fluppet]

The fate of RW???

Because anyone with a large wallet from the FRA has either just bought the arena, or is spending it all on a robot? Its also not clear to me how you can own the TV rights without having a channel on which to show it. As for trying to get legal control over the Robot Wars name... oh no, not again.

There has been discussion about filming some FRA events; hopefully that will go somewhere. Failing that, if event organizers can sort out some decent lighting, keen people with modern camcorders could probably patch together something which a cable channel could be talked into showing for a small fee. If were holding the event anyway, every little helps. Maybe by doing it better than Mentorn someone on terrestrial will see what can really be done.

Heres hoping. (And fingers crossed for Battlebots.)

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Fluppet

[Guest]

The fate of RW???

The rights to RW are owned by a large, multinational TV company, not by Five. Five bought the rights to air RW series 7, it may buy the rights to air series 8.

It is very unlikely that anybody with less money than a Murdoch could stump up enough money to purchase the Robot Wars format rights - certainly nobody in the FRA!

[steve_c]

The fate of RW???

So Mentorn dont own the rights, then? (ie. they only make the show instead of owning it)

[storm]

The fate of RW???

Not strictly true Richard. With no-one currently licensing Robot Wars from Robot Wars Inc theyre not making any money on their brand licensing. Therefore any licence deal in the absence of income from this would be better than nothing. Suddenly the game becomes a buyers market.

Ed
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[codename_47]

The fate of RW???

Robot Wars needs a Bernie Ecclestone!

Someone seperate from the building who can handle the media side and let the roboteers get on with roboteering!

If you could find a less evil one though, thatd be great!

[mc_blue]

The fate of RW???

Well Micheal Mauldin the creator of Iceberg, Frostbite etc is the founder of Lycos and a multi-millionaire... (the plot thickens)

Get him to buy Robot Wars!

[Guest]

The fate of RW???

Thats the flipside of such a minority sport, there arent any tycoons to buy you out of trouble!! Premiership football, anyone?