Original Series IX Pitch

I imagine Doug didn’t need a pitch to ask the BBC for another series.

If there was any pitch at all it would likely just have been ‘the four guys, audience, back to the old Dwarf style’ etc. similar to X, which is what Doug wanted to do, initially, instead of what BtE became.

It’s interesting how the Beeb are now very much willing to bring back and push their old properties, League of Gentlemen, Partridge etc. (as they bloody should). You’ve got to wonder whether they would have been willing to bring back Dwarf in this current climate. Granted, there would be budget concerns… like with the new League specials, that seem to have been done on a crazy tight schedule and budget.

I remember reading some article about the BBC looking at old properties recently which increased the likelihood of Red Dwarf ever being on BBC2 again in my mind from 0.00125% to 0.0125%. Still firmly in “not going to happen” mode.

0.125%.

Would being on the BBC really offer Doug all that much more than Dave at this point?

Perhaps the BBC are finally interested in the same audiences again after a quite edgy mid-life crisis.

Indeed KyoSo, which is why if this is happening I’d imagine Dave would fight quite hard for it, and I’d feel a bit guilty leaving Dave honestly but if it was for the better of the show I might have to do it.

A bigger potential audience definitely, and possibly a bigger budget. But with the way the BBC have been treating Doctor Who for the past, oh, five years, doesn’t fill me with much hope about them. We have missed at least two year’s worth of series’ from Who in recent times, maybe even three. There are rumours that we missed an entire season of Matt Smith because the BBC decided to split Series 7 against Moffat’s wishes, after his failed experiment of splitting Series 6. Then of course there was this year, another with no Who, and the one where we only had two Christmas specials in a row.

Then of course there was this year, another with no Who

Apart from series 10. The gap was last year, which was there was Moffat hadn’t made plans to write another series, originally believing he was due to leave the showrunner role after The Husbands of River Song.

>Series 7 was split because that was the only way they could produce 13 episodes with Moffat’s workload, which he has said was “killing him”. The way the episodes were split across 2012 and 2013 effectively gave us a gap year.

Actually… rumours. The series 6 split was definitely Moffat’s idea, the Series 7 split was the BBC’s decision

Also yes it was last year, to not interfere with the world cup and make it a national event or something. A national event that achieved the lowers ratings since the 80s, possibly ever

Also yes it was last year, to not interfere with the world cup and make it a national event or something.

Did anyone actually believe this, though? It sounded like a really desperate attempt to cover something up, even before we knew Moffat hadn’t planned to do another series.

The other reason was to push it into the Autumn slot. Though I guess the main reason for splitting series 7 was to stop there being a full series, plus the 50th special, plus a Christmas special, all produced in one year (this is what people presumed when Moffat said something like ‘there’s gonna be more Doctor Who than ever before’).

Though I don’t think they did the show any favours with this decision. It doesn’t help there were some godawful episodes being made during this time (series 7 is generally a mess, with one or two good ones surrounded by shite, and a total nonsensical storyline with Clara, just imo ofc)

If Red Dwarf goes back to the BBC, will Lister stop being able to see or hear all of the Dave-era plot elements?

Red Dwarf should go back to the BBC for Series IX, and then return to Dave for Series XIII.

It’ll drive the casual fans crazy, but they’ll never figure it out.

Hi.

Do you do the whole introduce yourself thing?

I’ve just got off a three hour phone call with International Debris. Do you realize how awful you are? You’ve treated them like absolute scum. How could you make fun of them over calling it Red Dwarf IX. They’re an actual person you know. You all disgust me. I’m leaving.

Not so much a lighthearted comedy episode, but my all time favourite is “Let that Be Your Last Battlefield”. I’d seen pictures and heard the basic concept for the episode beforehand and really wasn’t looking forward to it. Seemed like a stupid idea and I could instantly guess how it was all going to resolve itself in the most cliched and predictable way… but I was wrong. It doesn’t do the predictable conclusion I had assumed it would. Really great episode.

I think Star Trek should move to the BBC next series.