Ian’s Newsround – It’s The Final Countdown News Posted by Ian Symes on 1st August 2003, 00:05 Der-der-deeer-der. Diddle der-der-der. And so on. With three months and three days to go before the Series III DVD arrives, the official site have published a full listof extras. We knew damn near all of this before, but it still makes impressive reading. Three hours it’ll take us to get through all those. Three damn hours. Plus, there’s three hours’ worth of commentary to listen to, so that means we’ll all have to book 3rd November off work in order to get through it. (Personally speaking, I’ve already booked a fortnight off, just so I can concentrate on reporting it sufficiently). Interesting to read that the trailers were “only archived by dedicated fans on VHS”. Does this indicate that the BBC got rid of them, and GNP had to take the footage from a fourteen-year-old off-air recording? If so, that’s pretty impressive. Hopefully, they’ve also got some of the original continuity announcements, which could be used as Easter Eggs. Of course, our ideal pair of secret Easter Eggs would be a set of continuity announcements and some footage direct from the rushes – The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy DVD sets the precedent for this. Also, we’re hugely impressed by the phrase “mighty collection”, in reference to the stills gallery. Here’s hoping they’re all from the right series this time… Also on the official site this week, some pictures of the Stamp Centre‘s bottlestoppers. Now, the Kryten one, which was available at Memorabilia is excellent, and the Starbug one also looks good. However, for some reason, The Stamp Centre have chosen to base the third design on that of a huge pencil. This is seriously getting on our tits now. Would someone please listen to the fans (not just us, we hasten to add; just look around some other fansites) – THE RE-MASTERED RED DWARF SHIP LOOKED HORRIBLE. WE DO NOT WANT IT TO APPEAR ON ANY MERCHANDISE, OR INDEED THE MOVIE. Once again, it’s time to dig out our Model Behaviour article. Let’s hope we won’t have to do that again, eh? In other news, Tazzy has informed us that Craig Bierko, the steroid-pumping American version of Lister, is to star in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, a movie which is set to be released in America on 5th September. No word yet on a UK release, but we hope it won’t be too long. Craig was quite good in Red Dwarf USA, even though he didn’t suit the role at all. We’re quite keen to see him in something that has an adequate casting schedule, in order to see him at his full potential. After somehow managing to update seven times in the last five days, we’re now going to have to leave you without any new G&T stuff until Sunday. I’m off to Nottingham to see John, so we should get a load of stuff done. If we manage to resist the urge to sit on our arses watching Red Dwarf non-stop all weekend, that is.