The Hunt For Smeg October News Posted by Ian Symes on 18th August 2017, 13:11 Honestly, you wait a whole week for the next bit of Red Dwarf XII news, and then three come along at once. And they're three pretty substantial ones too, each of which could probably have carried the traditional Friday lunchtime news slot on its own. A more specific TX date! The traditional four-shot publicity photo! The series synopsis! The first two of these were initially covered in a single tweet: #RedDwarfXII pic.twitter.com/STwbzugSpL — Red Dwarf (@RedDwarfHQ) August 18, 2017 Read more →
What’s going on with the Red Dwarf mobile game? News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 16th August 2017, 19:09 Anyone who’s been playing GameDigits’ episodic installments of their Red Dwarf XI mobile game are probably starting to wonder where the Krysis episode might be. At the time of writing it’s been around four and a half months since Officer Rimmer released and given episodes prior to this were put out roughly two months apart, and with Series XII rapidly approaching, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the entire thing might’ve been dropped. Well, according to a Tweet from the official GameDigits account, there’s nothing much to fear. The Red Dwarf XI game still lives but will be on hold while work moves over to a new, free, Red Dwarf XII game. Continue reading →
Entitled News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 11th August 2017, 12:23 You may remember towards the end of last year a certain packaging based faux pas appeared to confirm the episode titles for a series of Red Dwarf that was almost a year away from broadcast. GNP did state at the time that these weren’t necessarily final, after a nifty wordsearch based treasure hunt on Twitter this morning, we finally have confirmation of the final Red Dwarf XII episode line-up. Continue reading →
The Fantastic Four News Posted by Ian Symes on 4th August 2017, 13:42 It's been mentioned several times before that, based on all available data, if there was one word to sum up Series XII, it's "batshit". The set reports indicated that several of the episodes are particularly out there, certainly compared to Series XI, and the early publicity would certainly seen to corroborate that initial assessment. Following on from last week's somewhat unconventional group shot, no less than four individual character photos have been released on social media today (and then handily compiled on TOS), all of which feature one of the four boys in unusual circumstances. Let's go through them one by one, in ascending order of weirdness. Read more →
Rob Grant GOSSIP News Posted by John Hoare on 31st July 2017, 00:45 If you’re like me, a couple of times a day you probably sit bolt upright, let out a strangulated groan, and think: “Just what the fuck is Rob Grant doing these days?” After all, his last tweet was in January 2016; his website is stagnant. Here’s some brand new gossip then, from comedy writer extraordinaire Andrew Marshall, (co-)writer of The Burkiss Way, End of Part One, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, If You See God, Tell Him, and 2point4 Children. Speaking to Steve O’Brien about his old fanzine: If you still do that, Rob Grant and I will have something new to talk about soon. — Andrew Marshall (@AndrewM2p4c) July 30, 2017 And just in case that wasn’t enough: It is sci-fi related. — Andrew Marshall (@AndrewM2p4c) July 30, 2017 Andrew Marshall and Rob Grant collaborating? That is a very, very intriguing team-up indeed. And something to keep us all excited until Red Dwarf XII hits our screens. Then we’ll forget all about it and moan about UKTV Play for six fucking weeks straight instead. Anyway, here’s one of my favourite End of Part One sketches, for precisely no reason at all. With thanks to Ian Potter for the friendly nudge towards this news.
The One Where Everyone’s Kryten News Posted by Ian Symes on 28th July 2017, 20:19 Apologies for being far too late to provide the full write-up on this, but the following tweet rather took us by surprise when it was posted in what was effectively the middle of the night: In Space, No-One Can Hear You Clean #RedDwarfXII pic.twitter.com/cKtlme8aRU — Red Dwarf (@RedDwarfHQ) July 28, 2017 Yes, the first official cast photo from Series XII is not your conventional everyone-in-front-of-a-spacescape shot, but rather a teaser from a particularly unusual episode. Remember that while us lot have known about this storyline for ages, the general public are learning about it for the first time, and as their first exposure to the series. Read more →
Oh, it’s continuing. I knew it would. News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 19th July 2017, 18:57 The gradual ramp up to Red Dwarf XII‘s broadcast continues, with the official Twitter account today teasing us ever closer to the inevitable climax with a Tweet containing a lovely picture of what I believe is a new look bunk room console. Also included is this beautiful close up of the ship schematic (click for an embiggened version)… I’m not sure what an “Artificial Grave” is but I take a strange comfort in the fact that it is only at 19%. While it’s no guarantee, I think this tweet further points to the likelihood of a a proper ramping up of details about the new series, maybe even as soon as this very Friday. Until then, and as first brought to our attention by Si Bromley, the latest issue of SFX features a four page piece on the Red Dwarf XII sets so while we’ve not got our hands on a copy of this yet, this should nicely pass the time until we start getting more news. Maybe then I might actually start believing we’re actually getting a new series and finally snap out of this post-XI haze…
Oh, it’s started. I knew it would. News Posted by Ian Symes on 7th July 2017, 14:35 Hi. Remember us? We're the people that inundate you with news, reviews and podcasts every time there's new episodes of Red Dwarf, and then we tire ourselves out and have a little sleep in between series. We've been patiently waiting for the Series XII publicity juggernaut to trundle into view and snap us out of it, and that glorious day has finally arrived. Look, there's a new logo and everything! Read more →
# RED DWAAAAARRFF # News Posted by John Hoare on 17th May 2017, 08:58 You all remember the big news last year, don’t you? No, not Red Dwarf XI. It was that magical moment when Darrell pointed out on our forums that the opening theme to popular science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf bloody well has lyrics. All these months later, that fact still blows me away. (Here’s a great write-up of it by Mental Floss.) But aside from that initial thread, the only other thing we had to go on was this little acknowledgement from Howard Goodall: I am honoured & delighted my vo-coded message from the past has been cracked!???????????? https://t.co/1GZMzPgZ9C — Howard Goodall (@Howard_Goodall) October 22, 2016 Now, wouldn’t it be nice if, say, someone like Graham Kibble-White just happened to be doing an interview with Howard about one of his upcoming programmes, and asked him a little more about the subject? Oh, look what we’ve just been sent. What a coincidence. I know someone who does this Red Dwarf fan site, and they got excited, I think last year, because they’d been analysing the music… Right! And they had discovered there were vocals hidden in the music. Oh, it’s them who discovered it? Yeah, they then put it out on Twitter, and it was a huge story for Red Dwarf fans, yeah. Oh well, thank them for finding it. I mean, I hadn’t deliberately hidden it. It just happened to be there in the mix. It’s just that no one seemed to have noticed it! [Laughs] So it was a very nice discovery. Had you forgotten it was there yourself? No, I knew it was. I didn’t know that people hadn’t noticed it. So, that was the shock. I had assumed everybody knew it was there, but it was so long ago, it was 27 years or whatever, and so I thought no more of it. Then all these fans around the world were saying, ‘Oh my God, we’d never noticed it before’. To me, the surprise was it hadn’t been noticed before. Is that you singing? Is it on a vocoder? That’s me doing a vocoder, yeah. And do you mind if I pass this onto them? Not at all! Many thanks to Graham and Howard for the above. Now, I’m off to listen to QI theme again. I’m sure I can hear a bit where Howard calls Alan Davies a dickhead using morse code.
Dimension Jump XIX is GO News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 7th April 2017, 09:38 It’s faintly terrifying to think that it’s already been two years since the last Dimension Jump convention, but apparently it has as evidenced by the fact that it’s all happening again this weekend. As we speak Fan Club organisers, attendees and guests alike are hurtling towards the best Dwarfy weekend the world has to offer. Unfortunately the G&T contingent will be limited to two solitary souls this time round, but I’ve been reliably informed that Ian and Danny will welcome any hellos, drinks and / or hugs if you see the beardy Yorkshire behind the sound desk or the non-beardy Brummie behind the camera. As usual they’ll be doing their best to keep you informed over Twitter if anything big hits over the weekend and of course a DwarfCast will follow a few days later provided everyone involved hasn’t died. The remaining sad sacks here at G&T will watch from afar but we wish everyone on the Fan Club team the best of luck over the weekend and also hope anyone going along has a great time. You lucky, lucky bastards.
