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Red Dwarf To Return, Find Earth
Lawrence Person writes "Everyone's favorite live-action science fiction comedy series will finally return to TV, with Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat all making it to Earth. The new two-part series Red Dwarf: Back to Earth will appear on digital channel Dave, will be written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, and will reunite the line-up. 'It will sit alongside two further new episodes — the improvised Red Dwarf: Unplugged, which will feature the cast dealing with no sets, effects or autocue, and Red Dwarf: the Making of Back to Earth, a behind the scenes look at the new production.' Personally, I think this is pretty smegging fantastic."
Usually these sort of "and then they came to earth..." plotlines are cost-cutting measures (so they can shoot in "regular" locations instead of on elaborate sets). They also often represent "jump the shark" moments for a series. When they did this on Lexx, the show (which had already begun to go way downhill in the previous season) went from bad to ABYSMAL.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
...well, actually, Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) announced it on Llewtube quite some time ago.
You can also get regular updates from him by following @bobbyllew on twitter.
He's a really good user of social media - he's very active on YouTube and twitter.
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If a square is really a rhombus, why aren't all triangles purple?
When it aired, I didn't manage to make it through season 7. It was just too painful. Never saw season 8 when it was airing, but borrowed the DVD's from a mate. Tried to watch some of them but... in the end settled for seeing how it ended. And it ended BADLY.
Rimmer kicking the anthropomorphic version of Death in the nuts? WTF?
>Did you ever watch the show? They jumped the shark at least
>once an episode. That's part of what made it so great.
That is not what jumping the shark means. Jumping the shark is when a show does something so out of character that the basic premise of the show is destroyed. This is usually done to either boost ratings or because the writers have run out of ideas. It usually marks the point where a series turns from being clever and innovative to being trite and predictable.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
The Gestalt entity Grant Naylor fissioned, both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, came out with crappy books, and, in spite of (or because of) the contributions of Robert Llewellyn the series went from amazing to crap.
You got me into this! You were the ideologue! I'm only a poor assassin! - Twenty evocations, Bruce Sterling
The thing is, Grant Naylor were a great comedy team. You can see what each provided to the mix -- when Grant left, the show lost a great deal.
How dare you be so modest!! You conceited bastard!!
No. ITV is notoriously lacking in any kind of comedy whatsoever. Or if they do come up with something another channel steals it, as happened with Men Behaving Badly. Channel 4 were responsible for The IT Crowd. Graham Linehan, the creator, has worked with Channel 4 before, as he was co-creator with Arthur Matthews of Father Ted (genius comedy!), and also created Black Books.
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I think it's funny how you mentioned "Friends" and the US version of "Red Dwarf" in the same post. That "super jock" you mentioned was actually offered the roll of Joey on friends, but he turned it down and took the gig as Lister instead because he didn't think friends had any chance of success...