http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm
QuoteCult comedy Red Dwarf is returning to TV, 21 years after its initial launch.
The show has been resurrected by digital channel Dave for a two-part Easter weekend special, which sees the cast finally return to Earth.
Written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, the new show reunites the line-up, including Coronation Streets Craig Charles.
The hit show, which ran for eight series on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, won an International Emmy award.
No holds barred
Set three million years into the future, the show followed the exploits of Dave Lister, slovenly crew member of the mining ship Red Dwarf - and the last man in the universe.
He was joined in his weekly attempts to make it back to Earth by a cast of oddballs including human hologram Arnold Rimmer, sanitation mechanoid Kryton and Cat - a preening half-man, half-animal who evolved from the ships cat.
At its peak, Red Dwarf pulled in around eight million viewers and was broadcast in more than 25 countries.
It has sold more than seven million DVDs and videos.
The new two-part series Red Dwarf: Back to Earth will be followed by a "no holds barred" episode without sets, special effects or autocue.
The weekend will climax with Red Dwarf: the Making of Back to Earth, a behind-the-scenes special from the new episodes.
Hopefully that no-holds-barred idea will help bring back some of its cheesey appeal, rather than how they butchered it in the final few series!
Someone will pull out the link I am sure but we been discussing it for a bit because Robert Llewellyn has been talking about it and getting his head mould done etc.
Yeah Robert has been blabbing bits and bobs about it for the last 6 or 7 months on his youtube channel :)
Quite looking forward to it and hopefully as said, it will still have its cheesy qualities of the old series :D
Quote from: Grey M@aYeah Robert has been blabbing bits and bobs about it for the last 6 or 7 months on his youtube channel :)
Quite looking forward to it and hopefully as said, it will still have its cheesy qualities of the old series :D
I was disappointed with 8 but that was different writers, a fall out or something?
Hopefully they do it right and they pull enough viewers to at least warrant some more specials. Since this and things like Only fools finished there has been little Britain an the fast show but nothing really quite up to scratch for me for a while. I think what did some of the good comedies was the humour but that touch of cheapness to the sets etc of which they used to their advantage in the humour.
When Rimmer and Lyster crashed (as starbug does so well) on that freezing cold planet and it is all about the talking, the box, Rimmers stuff and Lister cutting out the guitar and eating dog food - That was cheap but brilliant.
I do remember reading somewhere Nexus that it was a writers spat and they went their own ways leading to a new writer coming in, but from what Robert has been saying all four of the cast are on board for it due to the strength of the scripts but the first time back is a feature length episode so about 90 minutes and then they are going to see about doing a season. From memoy of the llewtube videos he does, he said they were still trying to get holly on board for it and they have all had input to the scripts :)
Hopefully it lives up to expectations.
Quote from: Grey M@athey were still trying to get holly on board for it and they have all had input to the scripts :)
Normal Lovett has been told hes not required due to budgetary contraints.
Quote from: BeakerQuote from: Grey M@athey were still trying to get holly on board for it and they have all had input to the scripts :)
Normal Lovett has been told hes not required due to budgetary contraints.
:( Holly as the character added half the wit to some of the situations :/ will see how it pans out though. Apparently Dave has the rights to air the show first or so Robert seems to think, but its hard to tell whats fact and whats fiction as he seems to give out little bits of info here and there.
Quote from: neXusSomeone will pull out the link I am sure but we been discussing it for a bit because Robert Llewellyn has been talking about it and getting his head mould done etc.
One of them, there is at least another one IIRC
http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/list/13509.page
Please be good, please be good, please be good...
And please can we get a resolution to the cliffhanger.
Robs just put up a new vid where he mentions that hes done a readthrough and mentions that the cast will also be doing a live performance, which Im guessing is the "no holds barred" episode without sets, special effects or autocue mentioned in the article in the OP.
Check it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gnDRXlTG4)
cool cannot wait for this , i have all 8 seasons on dvd :)
Oh cool, I didnt know Llewellyn had a youtube channel. :)
Two trailers shown on Dave:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tZEdK7wCUr0&feature=email
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VsWDfS50qJ8&feature=email