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...)"

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Re:British TV and the feign of class

[Anonymous Coward]

What else should we judge it by?

Should we use the word compete to mean how well a show is received by critics? Or by people who are not its target audience? I expect you mean we should judge by your own personal tastes, but unless you provide a ranked list we aren't going to be successful and probably won't be even if you do because we Americans don't take well to such things.

I, for instance, don't believe that all comedy should revolve around men dressing in drag, but you people can't get enough of that.

Re:British TV and the feign of class

[elrous0]

Obviously you've never seen the budget breakdown of a BBC show vs. and American one. Of course, in some ways that's a good thing (forces BBC casts and crews to really get creative with what they do have), but it's also limiting (there are some things they just can't afford to do that they would like to). The BBC, with its more open and less advertiser-driven nature, at its best can produce some really cutting-edge stuff (The Office, Ab Fab, Skins, etc.), but most of the time it produces silly fluff with production qualities that Norman Lear would have been ashamed of in the early 1970's.