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And there’s a foreground

Danny Stephenson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:12:10 +0000

And there’s a foreground miniature in there. Which I was dying to do, using an old technique as well as all the new techniques. And Mike wasn’t involved with that - in fact, he didn’t know we were doing that, he’d left the shoot a couple of days earlier to go back to Australia and start the post. And when he saw that he was just really delighted with the fact that we were using old-school techniques as well as the new.

Now we know what that meant! And it was bloody genius!

They have reports on TV

Muz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:35:05 +0000

They have reports on TV ratings on The Guardian website at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/tvratings.

Will take a couple of days for them to put them up though. Best thing to do is just keep an eye out anywhere where they report on entertainment/media news and hope somewhere reports on it.

Cool. And is anyone here

Jonsmad — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:53:39 +0000

Cool. And is anyone here friendly with friendly people who have access to BARB website I wonder? They probably cant say I guess.

Friendly people who have

Mr Flibble — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:46:43 +0000

Friendly people who have access to the BARB website, I expect.

I mean the BBC never put up their “what movies did well this week” story until Tuesday lunchtime, but I can find it out from the EDI website on Monday morning…

Is there a place online the

Jonsmad — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:25:59 +0000

Is there a place online the ratings are announced?

Where do those Who fans always get the episode ratings from in both early guess and confirmed form?

I’m increasingly

hummingbird — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:19:51 +0000

I’m increasingly optimistic about ratings. The amount of publicity they’ve had over the past few days has been amazing. I can’t think of any other similar show that has had the same sort of attention.

I think it’s probably fair

si — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:45:57 +0000

I think it’s probably fair to say 900,000+ would be really good for any other Dave show, but I think RD should get well over a million, 1.25million at least. 2million might be pushing it - 1.8m maybe.

I’m starting to thing

SoundableObject — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:40:08 +0000

I’m starting to thing ‘Back to Earth’ will get much higher ratings than we previously thought, I mean all this publicity, I can see this getting 2 million viewers atleast for part 1. The ratings will probably drop for part 2 but it is the same for most things.

You are right about how self

Jonsmad — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:35:18 +0000

You are right about how self critical creators can be, but meeting him in the flesh he was pretty happy and upbeat, he wasnt like a Graham Linehan commentary.

He was in tone of voice, and disjointed sentances, presenting a list of the hard work of the production people as the reasons why he had to be very pleased, against the odds, with the results of the show, he sounded fairly proud as he summed up that part of the answer.

Bizzare experience to be witnessing John interview Doug. It was very much like a Red Dwarf DVD documentary, and a website I love to visit had both suddenly jumped out of my PC screen at me after years of enjoying both. Following this, and the berkley event with 3 days of red dwarf meta fiction now could really screw with my mind. I’ll need someone to explain to me what is real and what isnt.

It’s too raw at the moment

performingmonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:01:26 +0000

It’s too raw at the moment for him to say ‘oh it’s brilliant! I’m really pleased…’ etc.

I’m crossing my fingers for the ratings. I wonder what figure Dave would consider to be a real success. Then they would have to look at the DVD sales. I doubt any decision on future Dwarf will be made until a few weeks after the DVD comes out. Even though there’s obviously a big Red Dwarf DVD buyer/viewership out there, you still never know what could happen.

Righteo, that’s me done on here until post-BtE pt.1. See you on the other side!!!

>His caution in the first

ChrisM — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:44:55 +0000

>His caution in the first few sentences made me a little concerned…

I was a bit too, but I think this is just a self critical thing that creators do. (Regardless of what form of creativity that is, writing, acting, whatever.)

Excellent! His caution in

Nick R — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:38:58 +0000

Excellent! His caution in the first few sentences made me a little concerned… but everything else in the interview is wonderfully promising.

As I understand it ratings are determined by the viewing habits of a tiny number of people in the UK. Which sounds incredibly inaccurate, unless I’m missing something.

The bit from Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe talking about how TV ratings are worked out is worth watching. Starts at about 7.20 in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlJo0vwAqM

And ends in this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nx5G5SWBw

MOD HAT : Philko87, sorry,

Seb Patrick — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:18:49 +0000

MOD HAT : Philko87, sorry, but I’ve taken out that link. It may seem hypocritical since I download some TV shows myself (I’ve got Lost going right now), but as a Dwarf fansite, I feel uncomfortable having links posted to places where people can watch the episode after it’s broadcast. If it weren’t for the DVD release, it’d be different - but Doug specifically states in this very interview that potential future episodes of Dwarf may well hinge on the DVD doing well. As such, I don’t feel we can be seen to condone anything that would hamper/interfere with those sales.

HAPPINESS. Well done, guys.

Nakrophile — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:59:24 +0000

HAPPINESS.

Well done, guys.

>Don’t worry, one day

SoundableObject — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:50:57 +0000

>Don’t worry, one day they’ll be able to tell what EVERYONE in the country is watching, what they’re thinking at any given moment, cameras in every home etc.

Big Brother is watching you.

G&T Interviews Doug Naylor... Again!

John Hoare — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:21:39 +0000