Doug has updated a petition maker on how television works

I mean, he said it won’t make a difference. I don’t read anything where he suggests its harmful.

I mean, signatures won’t do diddly squat for those either.

It just seemed an amusingly lightweight and inappropriate use of the system, but maybe it’s the sort of thing fans use for all the time anyway, I don’t know.

It feels well-intentioned but with a foundational misunderstanding of how this stuff works. It reminds me of a friend I have who regularly reacts to the news of RD being cancelled with “why don’t they just take it to Netflix or Disney+?” etc.

I do feel Doug’s response is largely supportive, though. He is giving them a dose of realism in pointing out it won’t make a difference but there’s nothing I detect in there asking them to take it down or not to do it,

“Someone set up a change.org petition to revive red dwarf? and Doug (or Doug’s agents) has told them not to? and they didn’t understand the subtlety of the message and kept it up?”

Yes. It’s hard isn’t it. This happens often in my music world, people petitioning to get Madness a Brit Award. Without the understanding of how things work within an industry, just the idea that people power is just and only a question of being a few clicks away, when not everything is a public poll like a big brother phone in.  I saw it an eye rolled too, because there is money being taken to promote the page etc. No one doubts that the fan or fans involved are right along with us, the collective that would like what the cast and Doug want, which is this next special to happen. But we just know this kind of drum banging will peter out. It was the contribution to promote that changed my goodwill on this.  Other than that, it’s nice to show fans still care. I thought Dougs message was the best kind of Polite response. 

Okay, but what does Reform say about it?

They’d probably want to put all the migrants on Red Dwarf and then fire it off into deep space 

then we can have series viii but the tank is an asylum seeker hotel 

Everything else is the same 

It just seemed an amusingly lightweight and inappropriate use of the system, but maybe it’s the sort of thing fans use for all the time anyway, I don’t know.

People use Change.org for serious things? News to me.

You… Change.org peoplehttps:

I’d argue it’s clear it’s for Chnge.org to promote the petition, but I’m also aware there’s a lot of people that would likely see this as a direct contribution to get the show made, simply because those kinds of fund raisers exist and a lot of people won’t pay too close attention to what is being asked of them

especially if they’re giving £20!!

^ Which I want to clarify was a quote from the Daily Mirror about Series 1, for anyone who didn’t know/forgot.