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Red Dwarf Returns In a 3-Part Showing
Logrusweaver writes "It looks like Red Dwarf is finally returning! Red Dwarf: Back to Earth is airing in 3 parts in the UK starting this Friday. It seems to be a 3-parter followed by a 'Making Of' special. Not trying to give away any more of the plot than the title does, but it does involve the crew finally returning to Earth. (Just hope it's not a bombed out planet with 'space angels' running around...)"
So how about Red Dwarf? It has lots of fans, but if it were to be played on American network TV, how well would it fare?
Do you mean it has never been broadcast in the USA? It is pretty popular here in Australia.
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I notice that there is also A Weakest Link Dr Who Special - not sure about that, I can't stand Anne Robinson.
It's been a few years since I saw it, but I remember a pre-DS9 Terry Farrell playing Cat, and she had the killer line: "Maybe someday I'll find the right eight or nine guys, then I'll settle down." Classic!
Original bit from the UK series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpI2t_qwlbI
Around 2:40 in.
The DVD's out June 15th in the UK. Got mine ordered already.
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Look at the notable members of the Footlights (Cambridge) and The Oxford Revue. The lists cover a fairly significant number of Britain's famous comedians from the last few decades. I couldn't find anything similar for Harvard or Yale, but admittedly that could be simply because I knew where to look for the British ones.
My local public broadcasting station used to carry British comedies on Saturday evenings; Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Are You being Served.
The weird thing was immediately after those shows...they'd run the Red Green Show.
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It's been shown on PBS channels and on BBC America on cable several times (though the latter showed the remastered version of the earlier seasons) though I think the last time it aired was 2001 or 2002, sometime during when they were putting a double UK-US flag on the screen post-9/11.
The entire series (before this new production) is also available on DVD in Region 1.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
To be fair, the American Red Dwarf pilot had some pretty damned good jokes in it. For example, when Lister finds Kryten's head, still activated, on a shelf after 3 million years, and he asked, "What have you been doing all this time?" and Kryten replies, "I've been reading that 'exit' sign!"
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