for those as interested as i,
Dave (the tv station ) has commisioned a new series of red dwarf :yahoo:
Doug Naylor will be masterminding the four half-hour instalments, and the regular cast will all be reprising their iconic roles. :woot2:
details here (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2008/09/19/new-red-dwarf-specials-confirmed/)
Smeg!!! 21 years ago...
:yahoo:
oh....freekin...sweeet :dribble:
Cooool
man i love red dwarf :D
all together now.....
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less,
Let me fly, far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
I want to lie shipwrecked and comotose,
Drinking fresh mango juice,
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
listen to the music on this page, absolute genius
http://www.culttelly.co.uk/lyrics/reddwarf.html
:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo: i love it :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:
Great stuff - Red Dwarf is a classic :D
*Hopefully* it'll be ace, but i have my reservations. They're lacking Rob Grant, and series 7 & 8, which were also both Doug Naylor on his own, just weren't a patch on any of the previous ones. I've also got the Red Dwarf books and IMO the pure Grant and Grant/Naylor ones are far superior to the pure Naylor ones.
Quote from: Carr0t;256614*Hopefully* it'll be ace, but i have my reservations. They're lacking Rob Grant, and series 7 & 8, which were also both Doug Naylor on his own, just weren't a patch on any of the previous ones. I've also got the Red Dwarf books and IMO the pure Grant and Grant/Naylor ones are far superior to the pure Naylor ones.
Have to agree with you here, the last two series were well bellow par. The characters personalities completely changed and the stories lacked their freshness. The reintroduction of the rest of the crew and the redesign of the "Red Dwarf" itself, spoiled it for me.
I can think back to plenty of excellent episodes from the Grant days, but to be honest I can't remember any special bits from the last 2 series.
Lets hope he's had time to work on some way of rekindling the fire of the Grant days.
Lets hope it never gets as bad as the "Hyperdrive" tat. I watched one episode of this and thought it didn't deserve to have a second.
Oh, and the complete series are available in a boxset from Amazon and Play for £34, remember the affiliate links.
to be honest i can't really disagree too much with what you are saying,
but IMO i still think a few episodes towards the end of the last series
started to feel more like the red dwarf of old.
all we can do his hope for the best and see what happens :)
Awesome I look forward to this muchly!!!
Specials (2009)
On his Youtube account 'bobbyllew', Robert Llewellyn announced that the dates for
filming and release of the new episodes had been set for January and Easter respectively.
"Back to Earth (Part One)" April 10, 2009
The cast get back into character, and costume, a decade on...
"Back to Earth (Part Two)" April 11, 2009
The adventure continues...
"Red Dwarf: Unplugged" April 12, 2009
The cast do it their way. Red Dwarf as you have never, ever seen it before!
"The Making of Back to Earth" April 13, 2009
A highly entertaining look at what goes on behind the scenes on a Red Dwarf production.
SWEET :yahoo:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/entertainment_enl_1234524090/img/1.jpg)
Red Dwarf stars Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), Lister (Craig Charles) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) visit the set of ITV soap Coronation Street as part of a two-part Easter weekend special. Red Dwarf: Back to Earth will be broadcast on digital channel Dave on 10 April.
nice one!!!! i love RED DWARF!!!! its the best comedy ever, "and do you now why its so quiete?, because there are no sounds to hear" :P :yahoo::roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Don't forget to set your sky+ as it starts tonight :yahoo:
9pm on dave :
Sky Channel 111 | Virgin TV 128 | Freeview 19
Not too sure if i like the idea of them doing this 'Coronation Street' things, sounds like it's going to be a cheesy cameo types :sad:
Quote from: Snokio;272211Not too sure if i like the idea of them doing this 'Coronation Street' things, sounds like it's going to be a cheesy cameo types :sad:
Dude its red dwarf,its going to be mega funny whatever they do:woot2:
Start in less than 15 mins!!!!!
Can't wait!!!!
just remember about it - then realsied i was a little late! so im waiting for it to be on dave jar vu (dave +1)
:roflmao: Awesome start!!! :roflmao:
If you use Twitter, you can follow Robert Llewellyn (Kryten):
http://twitter.com/bobbyllew
Really enjoyed it. However, did anyone else find it a bit odd without the studio audience, wonder why they decided to do that?
yeah know what you mean. think they tried it with no audience back in series 7
But swapped back for series 8 because it was a little flat.
not sure why they switched it again :g:
i must admit i enjoyed it even thou it was a short episode..... looking forward to part 2 and hopefully a new full series :D
Sorry, but once again Doug Naylor shows that he hasn't got an original bone in his body.
After recycling all the good episodes from the first 6 series in series 7, he then attempted to re-invent it in series 8 and made a pigs ear of it.
Now he has basically forgotten the plot lines in series 7 & 8 and pretended they never happened by inventing a fictional "series 9" in which the characters return to their earlier (successful) persona's and situation where Lister is back to being the last remaining human and Rimmer is back to being a hologram by the subtitle in the first 3 seconds of "9 years later".
Stealing the plot line from "League of Gentlemen: Apocalypse" he is filling the time in between by attempting to copy "Blade Runner" without any real comedy value and trying to cover up the lack of originality by Lister reading the plot line on the back of the DVD cover, thereby allowing Doug Naylor to rob scenes out of the film with a "clear" conscience.
Basically anything "wrong" will be explained by being in the missing "9th series".
While I can see that the actors are at least trying to recapture the essence of their characters in the first 6 series, the writing is still missing the originality of Rob Grant.
And where the hell is Norman Lovett or even Hattie Hayridge if he wasn't available.
Unfortunately this mini-series IS living up to my expectations, I wish it wasn't, I really do.
CAT looks a too moggy like to be acting cool .
Anyone else hate the way the adverts kick in ?
Still a few :D along the way
i miss the canned laughter, and why couldnt they just have it as a 1.5 hr special?, instead of 3 drink infused episodes(from my point of view... cheers.......hic)
btw sophie winklemen rocks........ big sue in the peep show for all that dont know
What's happened to the old humour? Is it the same guy(s) gal(s) writing it? There has been a few classic moments such as Lister sneezing through a collander to 'steam clean' his ironing :roflmao: but there seems to be too much other stuff - not sure this going back to earth is doing it for me either.
Quote from: Jabbs;272350What's happened to the old humour? Is it the same guy(s) gal(s) writing it? There has been a few classic moments such as Lister sneezing through a collander to 'steam clean' his ironing :roflmao: but there seems to be too much other stuff - not sure this going back to earth is doing it for me either.
Series 1-6 were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor and are brilliant.
Series 7, Rob Grant left for pastures new and left Doug Naylor to write them, this is where you start seeing recycled jokes appear from the first 6 series and the characters persona's change slightly, not much, but just enough to make you realise that this isn't the same, cue the addition of Cachansky (who is no longer played by Clare Grogan) and the departure of Rimmer.
Series 8, Doug Naylor brings the rest of the Red Dwarf crew back to life, except for the lack of any of the characters we know about from the first 6 series, with the exception of the captain. Rimmer is alive again. None of the original storyline remains.
Series 9, the missing series mentioned in the special..... Basically, Doug Naylors home made "get out of jail free" card for reseting all the characters back to their Series 6 persona's for this special and answering any difficult questions that might arise. In this series there has obviously been something that killed off all the crew again, managed to return them to the correct dimension after they escaped to a parallel one at the end of series 8, reconstructed the "Small Rouge One" back to its original appearance and killed Rimmer again so he's back to a hologram.
Easter Special - Doug Naylor again.
Who knows, maybe if Doug had left and ob had remained it may still gone down hill, but Rob definately took the spark with him when he left.
Oh, and its "Big Suze", not "Big Sue". :narnar:
Quote from: Liberator;272394Oh, and its "Big Suze", not "Big Sue". :narnar:
what ever:rolleyes:
thought that they should have kept the dark hall ways tho its not much like the old red dwarf but i liked the acting and jokes :D
Quote from: sulky_uk;272344btw sophie winklemen rocks........ big sue in the peep show for all that dont know
Aha, so it is, well spotted. I thought she was familiar, I was a big fan of Peep Show. :)
Damn sexy with that Russian accent :D :norty:
Bump.
I see they've commissioned an new Series - Series X.
Starts on 4th October at 9pm on Dave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf_%28series_X%29
Can't wait for the new season of Red Dwarf. Been hooked ever since I nicked my sister's boxset she got for christmas:)
The whole series is on Netflix, for those who don't have the box set. If you work hard you might get through thr whole series within the months free trial. Then again they seem to be endlessly rotating the whole lot on Dave.