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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...)"
How can they make any more Red Dwarf episodes.
The USA version of Red Dwarf was DEFFINTIVE!
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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?
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I just can't be more excited. I think I'm going to take my wife this weekend to get some Vindaloo!
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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It excells at exporting. Its nature series are famous around the world. Dutch and belgian tv can easily be used by those brits who have big enough atena's as re-run channels.
America however is a rather unique market. It doesn't need foreign imports the way smaller EU countries need it. It can afford to create all its own content.
But most important is that america is radically different from the EU.
Red Dwarf works in the EU because it is a bunch of losers losing out. American's don't like that and this can be clearly seen by their version of Red Dwarf, the red dwarf movie changes or for that matter the talks Terry Pratchett had about having his books turns into hollywood movies (loose death from Mort).
Other series are the same. Only Fools and Horses doesn't really translate either. Or for that matter Porridge. Both have had US versions and both times they were changed to suit the american taste which just doesn't seem to accept the underdog being the underdog and staying the underdog.
British humor I think is also different in another way. Just how many british comerdians went to Oxford vs how many US comedians to harvard?
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Sadly, the BBC decided not to get involved in these new episodes, so it's ended up on the "tiny" channel Dave and won't get the multi-million viewing figures it might have had on BBC 1 or 2.
Unfortunately, the digital multplexes where I am (yes, I have 2 aerials to pick up Wales and Midlands) both don't have Dave, plus although I have a Sky Digital dish, I don't subscribe to anything on it, so Dave isn't available there either (it's encrypted on Sky for absolutely no good reason, especially when it's in the clear on Freeview if your multiplexes carry it).
So the irony is that despite living in the UK, having access to two Freeview digital regions *and* having a Sky Digital dish, I still can't see these new episodes. So I guess it's off to "other" avenues begining with the letter "B" to find the episodes then...sigh....
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.