Tim Child is a British

United Kingdom

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 television producer. He is most famous for creating and producing the cult children's television program Knightmare

Knightmare

Knightmare is an English television program for children, produced by Broadsword Productions for Anglia Television and was broadcast on ITV from 7 September 1987 to 11 November 1994...

, a fantasy role-playing adventure game which pioneered virtual studio or blue-screen production.

Child additionally produced Timebusters and Cyberzone for BBC

BBC

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, Virtually Impossible for ITV

ITV

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 and The Satellite Game for BSB

British Satellite Broadcasting

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. He was also the CEO of Televirtual Ltd, a MediaLab producing new forms of communications technology, specifically avatars. Televirtual is an off shoot of Broadsword, the original production company behind Knightmare. Child is currently creative director of Intermedialab, the successor to Televirtual.