Tim Child

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Tim Child (born 1946) is a British television producer. He is most famous for creating and producing the cult children's television program Knightmare, a fantasy role-playing adventure game which pioneered virtual studio or blue-screen production.

Child additionally produced Timebusters and Cyberzone for BBC Television and Virtually Impossible for ITV. 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.