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New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era
An anonymous reader writes "The announcement that the new series of Red Dwarf is likely to be shot in front of a studio audience, which hasn't happened for the show since 1998, has made one of the show's actors wary of the practicality of it. Commenting on his blog, Robert Llewellyn, who plays servile robot Kryten in the hit British SF comedy show notes: 'The fear among the producers now is that it's impossible to imagine an audience of around 400 people at the recording of a TV show like Red Dwarf, where nobody does a bit of a hint on Twitter, or sneaks a picture on Facebook or posts a bit of badly shot video on YouTube.'"
This is why we can't have nice things.
Even more shocking is that the new series might be doomed because of a sensationalist headline on slashdot!
The fact that they are doing the new series is worthy enough news, you don't need to build up a non-existing story to promote it. Even the summary shows what a crock the headline is when it says that one of the show's actors was "wary of the practicality of it". If it was such a concern, then they could just not film it in front of an audience.
Supposing we built a large wooden badger...
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
I am very cross. You shouldn't have run away from me. What are we going to do with those twitter posters?
I have an idea, but who would clean up the mess?
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
LISTER KILLS DUMBLEDORE!
You WATCHED twilight? seriously?
It always used to amuse me that my homophobic brother watched WWE while disapproving of me watching Queer as Folk.