New Red Dwarf

[Crispy]

oh crhrist. my teeth are gritted.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Mine too...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wut indeed, 'no holds barred' sounds like a crazy spindoctors take on the cheapest sci-fi TV episode ever.

And what do they mean 'no autocue'? What actors don't learn their lines and read straight into the camera?

 

[dlx1]

american red dwarf pilot.

this is old.


I throw a 3 and a 4
rimmer telling crib story it going to be shit but still going to watch

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Dear oh dear, this is going to be utter pony

CORONATION Street gets its first alien visitors — when the Red Dwarf crew arrive in this space runabout.

A new episode of the sci-fi hit was filmed on the soap set and features Simon Gregson.

Kryten (Robert Llewelyn) and the crew track down ex-boss Lister (Craig Charles) to Weatherfield — where Craig, 44, plays Lloyd.

He was blasted yesterday for calling Corrie fans thick.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Oh god...

 

[Augie March]

Yup, that sounds shit.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Oh god...

Sounds like a trainwreck, doesn't it?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Sounds like a trainwreck, doesn't it?

Totally...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Totally...

I feel like shooting naylor.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Didn't they all die at the end of series 8?

Although obviously they all died at the end of series 6 as well, and there it should have ended tbh.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Oh god

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I feel like shooting naylor.

And the entire cast...

 

[Stigmata]

This all looks hilariously lame

 

[mhwfc]

I'm hoping this is just a spoof for charity, it's the sort of thing you'd get on Comic Relief, maybe we'll get Kryten doing to find Robert Llewellyn doing Scrapheap Challenge or Rimmer trying to find Mr Brittas?

 

[jannerboyuk]

How do you tell? According to IMDB, they were all co-written.

Series 6 is a weird one, as it had some utter crap (RImmerworld, Polymorph 2) and then some utter genius like Legion, Gunmen of the Apocalypse and Psirens...

You are clinically insane. Rimmers world was great. I feel faint

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

You are clinically insane. Rimmers world was great. I feel faint

You're right there. I was watching it again earlier and it's actually v.good.

 

[TheDave]

I'm just not gonna watch it. I'll watch some of the early season episodes and remind myself how ace it was rather than have the memory tarnished with this.

 

[LindaR]

I'm going to have to tape it because daughter - who's one of those sad people who can recite entire episodes from memory* - is going to be away. So I might make her watch it, for completions sake, before I risk it myself.



*As opposed to me, who can identify any episode of what some call Star Trek TOS, but to me is just Star Trek, from any 30 second clip.

 

[Melinda]

I'm hoping this is just a spoof for charity, it's the sort of thing you'd get on Comic Relief, maybe we'll get Kryten doing to find Robert Llewellyn doing Scrapheap Challenge or Rimmer trying to find Mr Brittas?

This^^^.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Ah, did they co-write the Kennedy one? I seem to remember really enjoying that and thinking "Yay, red dwarf is back" and then the rest of it going downhill more swiftly than a hippo on a snowboard.

Is that a Rimmer line? If not it certainly sounds like one.

 

[F_Burnside]

I'm hoping this is just a spoof for charity, it's the sort of thing you'd get on Comic Relief, maybe we'll get Kryten doing to find Robert Llewellyn doing Scrapheap Challenge or Rimmer trying to find Mr Brittas?

Hadn't even thought of this. Good work, even if you end up being horribly wrong.

 

[Fledgling]

Howdedoodelleydoo?


My favourite episode was the one in series 3 which left Lister and Rimmer stranded and having to burn books to keep a fire going. It was great, just relied on the personalities. The whole thing went gradually downhill after series 2 albeit with a few exceptions (talkie toaster, psirens and a few others). They got too much money and started inventing naff stories with to many special effects. 7 was on reflection crap and I could'n teven sit in the room with 8 on. I can't greet this new one with enthusiasm, if this is the end then good.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Howdedoodelleydoo?


My favourite episode was the one in series 4 which left Lister and Rimmer stranded and having to burn books to keep a fire going. It was great, just relied on the personalities. The whole thing went gradually downhill after series 2 albeit with a few exceptions (talkie toaster, psirens and a few others). They got too much money and started inventing naff stories with to many special effects. 7 was on reflection crap and I could'n teven sit in the room with 8 on. I can't greet this new one with enthusiasm, if this is the end then good.

It's been said plenty of times before, but the whole point of RD was that it was a few blokes, who get on each other's tits, having to live out a fairly pointless life together. They could have been students sharing a flat, scientists in Antarctica, anything. The space stuff was a bit of extra fluff that set the scene. When they started using the space stuff as a way of perking up things and adding extra excitement was when the trouble began.

 

[Santino]

It's been said plenty of times before, but the whole point of RD was that it was a few blokes, who get on each other's tits, having to live out a fairly pointless life together. They could have been students sharing a flat, scientists in Antarctica, anything. The space stuff was a bit of extra fluff that set the scene. When they started using the space stuff as a way of perking up things and adding extra excitement was when the trouble began.

Yeah.

There was also a sense in which it stopped being a parody/pastiche of a science fiction adventure show, and became an actual sci fi adventure show, but with knob gags.

 

[Stigmata]

It's been said plenty of times before, but the whole point of RD was that it was a few blokes, who get on each other's tits, having to live out a fairly pointless life together. They could have been students sharing a flat, scientists in Antarctica, anything. The space stuff was a bit of extra fluff that set the scene. When they started using the space stuff as a way of perking up things and adding extra excitement was when the trouble began.

The old 'bunch of guys stuck with each other' schtick is a reliable formula. See Porridge, Father Ted... I think introducing Kochanski as a regular character really mucked that dynamic up, and resurrecting the crew was an act of writerly stupidity.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

My favourite episode was the one in series 4 which left Lister and Rimmer stranded and having to burn books to keep a fire going.

Series 3

</geek>

 

[lostexpectation]

Howdedoodelleydoo?


My favourite episode was the one in series 4 which left Lister and Rimmer stranded and having to burn books to keep a fire going. It was great, just relied on the personalities.

thats the one they used for the american pilot its on youtube now check it out, all the personality has been suck out.

 

[Fledgling]

Series 3

</geek>

geek, have changed that.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Is that a Rimmer line? If not it certainly sounds like one.

I made it up, but yes it was deliberately in the style of a 'Red Dwarf Series 6 pun'...