Red Dwarf

[flammableBen]

You know how you haven't watched something for a while so you start downloading loads of the ones you don't have kicking about on an old harddrive? Then you end up chatting to a mate in the pub about how it's a shame they probably won't make anymore new ones, even if the last series was shit? And then suddenly, a few days later, they announce that they're making a new 1 hour special, and 4 new episodes on Dave.

Happy times.

Although the Dave ones seem to be minimal new content and more clip show stuff. Still, dvd red dwarf special should be good, or probably rubbish. I've heard rumours that Grant and Naylor are working together again. It went to shit when they fell out.

I'd link up to the news sources, but urrr.. I've had too much to drink and the old ctrl-shft-T in firefox is showing that my last closed tabs were something completely different; does anybody have a fetish for teenage nuns wearing trilbys?

[Batch]

Yes, heard this yesterday. Is it definite now that the Dave 'classic clips + new footage' is different from the rumoured 1 hour special?

I can't believe it's 20 years old!

It all went badly wrong in series 7, presumably that was when the Grant/Naylor split?

Here is the only sauce (sic) I could find

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/webboard/wbpx.dll/read?363457,8

[Arnold.J.Rimmer]

If this is true then I can't wait. There was talk of a film 5 or 6 years ago but nothing ever came of it.

Red Dwarf rumoured to return
Published: 27 August 2008 12:18 Author: Robin Parker More by this Author Last Updated: 27 August 2008 12:18 Reader Responses   


Cult BBC comedy Red Dwarf is poised to return after 10 years for a one-off special.
Robert Llewellyn, the Scrapheap Challenge and How Do They Do It? presenter who played android Kryten in the sci-fi show, told the Canadian network KTCS9 that BBC Worldwide had commissioned a new 60-minute episode that will be filmed in October for DVD release next year.

The series was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor as a spin-off of Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a sketch they wrote for Radio 4 series Son of Cliché. It ran for eight seasons on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999 and also spawned spin-off novels. Grant left after series six, prompting Naylor to work with other writers, including Llewellyn.

It also made stars of Coronation Street actor and 6Music DJ Craig Charles, The Brittas Empire's Chris Barrie and Cbeebies' Danny John-Jules.

[ibelieveinmrreeves]

We had the Flintstones film on at work the other day, which reminded me of the Cat and Listers bunk conversation about finding Wilma Flintstone sexy. "I'd go with Betty, but I'd be thinking of Wilma." Classic.

[flammableBen]

The hour long dvd special doesn't seemed to have been confirmed anywhere apart from an RL interview in Canada. If it's just the Dave clip shows with minimal new material then it's all a bit disappointing.

Booo.

[flammableBen]

Ouroboros

[Arnold.J.Rimmer]

Lister: Ouroboros... It wasn't 'Our Rob or Ross', it was Ouroboros..!
Cat: What was?
Lister: The message that was written on the side of my box!
Cat: You came in a box? That explains everything.

[Batch]

Thought I'd run this up the flasg pole lickety split

Red Dwarf is returning to TV, 21 years after it first aired.

Digital channel Dave has ordered a two-part special to be screened over the Easter weekend, and the plot, written by the series’s co-creator Doug Naylor will have the crew finally return to Earth.

Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn have all signed up to return as Rimmer Lister, The Cat and Kryten.

Filming will begin on the new episode on February 16, and the digital channel has promised to give weekly updates from the Shepperton Studios set every Wednesday on its website.

The new episodes – the first of which premiere on April 10 at 9pm – will be the cornerstone of a Red Dwarf weekend.

Also in the schedules is a ‘making-of’ documentary and Red Dwarf: Unplugged, a ‘no holds barred’ episode with no sets, no effects - and no autocue.

Red Dwarf is Dave's biggest commission yet, following the success of panel game Argumental, and is its first foray into scripted comedy.

At its peak, the series pulled in around eight million viewers and was broadcast in more than 25 countries. It has sold more than seven million DVDs and videos.

[Samdy Gray]

I smegging love Red Dwarf. Good times.

[Don Rogers Shop]

Tis shite

[Barry Scott]

Red Dwaft is/was the fucking shit. Had an old box set somewhere, i'll have to dig it out. My favourite episode was the hallucinogenic squid ink that makes them think they've returned to earth. Duane Dibbley? No way.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

Chris Barrie needs to make more Brittas empire if anything!!!!

[Bob's Orange]

Chris Barrie needs to make more Brittas empire if anything!!!!

Class sitcom!

[Jamiesfuturewife]

We have a picture at the sports centre of the whole cast and we have changed all the names to our names depneding on what character we are most like

God just realised how sad that sounds 

[flammableBen]

Hello Colin.