Last week it was a case of Thunderbirds are go for Britain’s answer to Disneyland, as ITV struck a deal for the famous kids’ show to be turned into an attraction at a £5bn theme park.
But the backers of the London Resort, planned for a peninsula in north Kent, are struggling with film and TV partners walking away and increasing disillusioned locals.
In signing the ITV deal Steve Norris, the former transport minister who chairs the park’s developer London Resort Company Holdings, promised the broadcaster it was going on an “epic journey”. It already has been.
