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So, what’s going on with Kamikaze Cookery, then?

We’ve gone a bit quieter lately, as you’ve probably noticed. That’s a) because I’m on holiday, and b) because we’re starting to ramp up for the next KKC release.

The next KKC release(es) won’t be another series, but a special feature, somewhere between one to three parts. We’re aiming to shoot it in May or early June, and it should be with you pretty soon after.

We’ve also been looking into prettiness – I’ve got a new camera, the rather wonderful HF-10 from Canon, which will bring our shooting technology into the 21st century from the late ‘90s where our last camera left us, and we’ve got an agreement to borrow some lighting kit, so everything should look a lot prettier.

As far as format goes, we’re looking at making each episode shorter, which should reduce the workload, and also increase our viewership. The big problem with KKC at the moment is that it’s basically a full-time job for about 4 months to produce the scale of series we did for Season 0, and whilst our viewers are all, without exception, lovely, they’re also not numerous enough to support that financially! We’d need about 10-20 times more viewers to support that level of production.

In addition, we’ve all got other projects (which has been the reason for the quiet patch, too). Notably, I’m (as the editor and director) engaged in developing a bunch of different technology for the day job at the moment, and we’re intending to start on a new series there soon, so once again, that cuts into KKC time.

So we’re not entirely sure what’s going to happen series-wise. Our current plan is to make a “special” in May and see how it goes! Hopefully the additional quality will get us a whole bunch of new viewers, and we can see what happens from there.

(In other news, we’ll also be releasing the second DVD from Season One at the same time, with the usual commentary and extra material).

So, that’s what’s up! If we blog infrequently in the next while, it’s because time that could have been blogging time is going into production – we’ll try and get you some stills, some concept stuff, some ideas of what we’re working on, as soon as possible!

Let us know if you have any ideas for increasing our audience or making the series faster – we’d like to make more!