Oh God I've heard this one before... Go to South Africa - it's cheap to make TV there...
But the facilities are crap. The skillsets limited and the technologies dated. Making films/TV in South Africa is the equivalent of asking Area52 to make a AAA game. No one in the industry does it unless they're worried that what they want to make won't be very popular, so don't want to risk spending real money on it.
But another thought.. The Atari brand has indeed been around for a long time and it used to be very geek cool to wear retro Atari t-shirts. But I think that only worked because Atari hadn't done much for a while and people could look back at the golden age of consoles and what Atari once were. But now, wearing an Atari t-shirt would just look like you were a fan of all the weird crap they're doing now. That isn't so cool.
When it comes to new ventures, i'm not sure the brand is as diverse and powerful as they seem to believe.
Back in the day folks would of loved something like Atari TV, nowadays, meh, a bit too late to hook folks onto the name that is becoming more & more tainted as the current owners seem to be going the fast & cheap route of getting $ from whatever they can pry from the Atari library & brand
I bet Nolan Bushnell, Al Alcorn, Joe Decuir, David Crane, Al Miller, Tod Frye, Larry Kaplan, Carol Shaw wish they could distance themselves from Atari even tho' they were it's founders, well, one thing is sure the current Atari isn't fit to lick the boots of the guys who founded the company way back when
I bet it saddens them a little bit to see the name dragged into the mud like a cheap knock off company that only has the name... wait... that's is what it is nowadays... Totaly not the same company from the late 70's early 80's anyway... That was sold to the highest bidder... Who then broke it up into smaller parts & sold those parts off as they just wanted the library of games... and nothing else... none of the hardware... who'd want that ?
Yet here we are some 4 decades later... What happed to Atari is history now & we see the end result of it... And it's not pretty at all
