Bluray Extras Confirmed! News Posted by Ian Symes on 7th December 2018, 11:48 With the Bluray release just over a month away, we now have confirmation of exactly what's packed in to those 19 shiny discs. Firstly, with regards to the episodes themselves, the TOS update is keen to emphasise that the extent of the re-mastering this time around is to upscale the video, clean up any damage and polish up the colour grade, rather than making any significant changes to the overall show. They note that there's no change "to the feeling of each unique season", so VII will keep its film look but none of the others will have it added. Bless, they know we've been burnt before with re-mastering, so they're just trying to reassure us. Read more →
Bluray artwork! News Posted by Ian Symes on 26th October 2018, 11:38 It's rare that a TOS update is trailed in advance, but when it is, it's usually something special. There is certainly much to discuss here - the artwork for the forthcoming Bluray release: Read more →
Dimension Jump XX is HAPPENING News Posted by John Hoare on 5th October 2018, 06:48 In some distant parallel universe, Red Dwarf only got one series. It was never released on VHS or DVD. A fan club never appeared. It got a few reviews in some Doctor Who fanzines, and then quietly faded away. In this universe, meanwhile, the 20th Dimension Jump convention is about to happen this weekend. Odd how things turn out. Yes, the great and the good in the world of Dwarf are gathering for the third convention running at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nottingham, for a weekend of wonder, excitement, and… wonder. And as usual, unlike the early days of G&T, a great many of us are either official fan club members or are helping out in an unofficial capacity, so the weekend promises to be “fairly busy” for most of us. Fear not, however: I’ll be trying to keep the Ganymede & Titan Twitter updated as much as possible over the next few days, for those of you who can’t make it. As usual, there will also be a DwarfCast looking back on the whole event, although it probably won’t be up until some point late next week. So don’t wait up on Sunday night desperate for our hot content, because we’ll all be too busy wishing we were all still in our 20s full of endless energy, rather than hopping over that invisible line where you really feel death and total oblivion staring you full in the face. Happy DJ, everybody!
Strictly Cat Dancing News Posted by Ian Symes on 13th August 2018, 21:02 What d'you mean you're dancing the cha-cha-cha? Yes, appearing on The One Show today, it was confirmed that Danny John-Jules will be a contestant in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. We've heard rumours that his dance partner is going to be a CGI Blue Midget. The Cat's out of the bag ????Danny John-Jules is going to be having fun, fun, fun on #Strictly this year! https://t.co/4k1rKuZzjb pic.twitter.com/d2zqSgTiom — BBC Strictly✨ (@bbcstrictly) August 13, 2018 Read more →
Blu-ray is loaded News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 3rd August 2018, 11:54 Well, here's hoping we've never used that headline before. Before today the only source of information we've had on the Blu-ray releases of Red Dwarf 1 to VIII is from a very premature Amazon listing and Doug's Tweets on the subject. It is, however, now all official and that, and GNP are going ahead with what seems to be an entire set released on the 1st October as part of their ongoing and extensive 30th anniversary celebrations. Read more →
Let’s Talk About The Quanderhorn Xperimentations (on Radio 4) News Posted by Ian Symes on 25th June 2018, 08:00 Tell me when will you be mine? Tell me Quander Quander Quanderhorn. Well, the brand new sci-fi comedy radio series, written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall, starts today at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4. You can listen live via the Radio 4 website or the iPlayer Radio app, or tune in on an actual radio via DAB, FM or LW. It should be available on catch-up pretty much straight after it finishes airing, again via iPlayer Radio, or on the BBC programme page, which has now been updated to get the co-writer’s name right. (This is all assuming you’re in the UK, of course – foreign types will have to resort to more nefarious means, I would imagine.) Anyway, this is your thread to discuss the episode before, during and after broadcast. Spoilers for episode one are allowed in the comments, but when the book comes out on Thursday, keep please keep discussion of the book confined to that thread, so as not to reveal anything about future episodes of the radio series. Why can’t anything vaguely Red Dwarf related ever be released in a straightforward manner? This will most likely be the only Let’s Talk About for Quanderhorn, unless each episode ends up attracting as many comments as a new episode of Red Dwarf does. Either way, the signs are very promising, and we’re very much looking forward to devouring new Rob Grant material for the first time in years. Let the Xperimentations begin.
Get The Quanderhorn News Posted by Ian Symes on 16th June 2018, 14:05 It's always the way, innit? You hang around Rob Grant for ten years and you don't see one new project. Then all of a sudden, three of them turn up at once. More accurately, one new project turns up, but released in three different ways. The Quanderhorn Xperiment, in its various forms, will be with us before the month is out, so let's take this opportunity to summarise what we know about the three individual products and their release schedule. Read more →
Red Dwarf XIII Not Yet Confirmed News Posted by Ian Symes on 29th April 2018, 12:18 In the last decade or so since Red Dwarf slowly creaked back into production, certain traditions have been established. The frantic hunt for audience tickets. Scouring the social media feeds of the cast and crew for teasers during production. The carefully orchestrated promotional campaigns culminating in something important being accidentally leaked early. And, of course, the complete inability of the main cast to keep their mouths shut. This last one has lead to a confusing and mildly irritating secondary tradition in more recent years, as blogs and entertainment sites vie for clicks in an increasingly crowded market: announcing that a new series is confirmed before a new series is actually confirmed. You can track the development of this phenomenon by noting the increasing levels of weariness in our coverage of it happening for Back To Earth, Series X and the Series XI & XII couplet - twice. So imagine our delight when we saw an article on the otherwise excellent British Comedy Guide loudly proclaiming "Red Dwarf Series 13 confirmed". Read more →
The Quanderhorn Ovelisation News Posted by Ian Symes on 28th March 2018, 13:25 Exciting news - more than a decade on from Fat, Rob Grant has a new novel out later this year. It's an adaptation of The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, the Radio 4 sitcom he's co-written with Andrew Marshall of 2point4children fame, set to be released in June at the same time as the radio version is broadcast. We're told that this will be "expanded from" the radio series, prompting hopes of a Red Dwarf style full novel treatment, rather than a straightforward transposition of the scripts. We're very much looking forward to all of this - it's been far too long since we got hold of any new Rob Grant material, and now we'll be treated to new examples of both his dialogue and his prose, all within the next few months. It'll also be interesting to see how he works with another writer; correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first time he's collaborated with someone other than Doug. Time is short and we are lazy, so here's the press release in full: Read more →
Looks like the Blurays are definitely happening, then News Posted by Ian Symes on 1st March 2018, 19:52 Rumours of a Bluray release for the BBC years of Red Dwarf have been swirling for a while. I think we've discussed it as an aside on a DwarfCast or two, but we've held off from front-paging the news until there was something a little more concrete to report, mainly because the forum was doing a sterling job of logging various developments. Today, however, Doug tweeted: In the Blu-Ray suite working on Red Dwarf III. It’s looking nice. The Up-Rez is nice, the noise reduction is nice, the grade is nice. It just looks nice period. #RedDwarf30#October. — Doug Naylor (@DougRDNaylor) March 1, 2018 Read more →
