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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...)"
Probably as well as every other sci-fi-based comedy out there. Which is to say, it will bomb miserably.
I'm really not sure what you mean by "very limited". If you mean that it doesn't export as well as American programs then, no, but that's the same thing for the rest of the entire world, only Americans excel at exporting their culture.
Not sure what you mean by "compete" either, if you mean in quality, then do point me to an American show that competes with Blackadder or A Bit of Fry & Laurie. If you judge how good a show is by how many viewers it would get on American television then I'm afraid few foreign shows are as "good" as say Scrubs ;-).
Red Dwarf is pretty unique anyways, it's pure comedy but in a scifi setting, with scifi plots, but the comedy and characters really come first. Try watching it?
You just got troll'd!
Wow... just wow. And you wonder why the rest of the world think Americans are all arrogant, xenophobic, insular, cultural imperialists?
Yes, the only reason that British shows are popular is because we don't have access to the wonderful broadcasting that you enjoy. If only some American shows would come over here and we could stop producing our own entertainment all together... *rolls eyes*
British TV usually knows when to give up the ghost and stop making shows.
You mean like Red Dwarf should have done after season 5?
I'm just saying, is all.
surely you mean after season 6, stopping before winning an emmy for gunmen would have just been silly. Stopping when Rob Grant left would have been sensible.
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I read somewhere that they're gonna link it in with Coronation Street (a long running UK soap where the actor playing Lister has a part).
I'll watch it, but think it'll be awful. The last series commercialized it to a stupid point, and the storylines are little similar to those of the ones conceived by the original authors.
There have been some great episodes in every series, so I'm glad they didn't follow the 12 episode route.
Books are like 10x better than the shows though.
The US remake of Red Dwarf was an abomination, I'd rather go on a date with a gelf.
"A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist" - Sir Humphrey Appleby
And thank god for that.
When BBC produces a show, said show is unencumbered by Hollywood maggots screaming "sequal!", "product placement!", "it needs a Black guy!", "spin off!", "homogonize it until it couldn't offend ANYONE!", "put Roger Corman's name on it!", "put Britney Spears in it!", "it needs a giant mechanical steam-powered spider!".
No, when the BBC produces a show they make sure that the creators know that they're damned lucky to be given any money or air time and then the execs ignore it.
As a result, British TV, while containing as much mindless trash as any other TV, comes up with roughly one innovative, clever, watchable show per year. The only American TV shows that get the same treatment are animated; probably because the network executive slime think animated series aren't important or just for kids or something. Who knows.
Hopefully, British TV's limitations will remain in place for many years to come.
RE: Red Dwarf, is fundamentally about a few completely awful people trapped in each other's company and collectively making their own little nightmare world a little worse every day.
May I correct you here and say that its just 1 person, who is trapped in the company of a hologram, a robot and a mutant cat!? No company of other humans for eons bound to make anyone's life a little drab.
There was an attempt at a Red Dwarf USA show on NBC, but the two pilots never went anywhere. They weren't too bad, but I don't think we were ready for such a thing.
I'm not entirely sure we saw the same US Pilots. They were awful at best, it was a disgrace to the original to air those pilots.
yeh, hilarious...