@RedDwarfHQ (Updated: 22/05/15) Quickies Posted by John Hoare on 16th May 2015, 12:00 Two weeks ago, Doug Naylor stood on stage at Dimension Jump and announced two new series of Red Dwarf. This caused a certain amount of excitement. Two weeks on, the official Red Dwarf Twitter account - verified and everything - has yet to update with the news. In fact its last update was back in November 2012, shortly after Red Dwarf X finished. This does not warrant a huge article. I merely want to point out something which is rapidly becoming one of the stupidest things I have ever seen on social media. I mean, maybe not quite as bad as this yet, but they're getting there. Go ahead, @RedDwarfHQ. Continue making the franchise look absolutely fucking ridiculous. You fucking dick. Read more →
Because the ident computer says they do Quickies Posted by Ian Symes on 12th March 2014, 17:06 I recently discovered a very interesting blog called VHiStory. This chap, Jim Lynn, has got an archive of around 3000 video tapes in his garage, and he's currently in the process of digitising and cataloguing each one, blogging his discoveries in precise detail as he goes. I quickly lost the best part of two days reading every single post, but that's not important right now. In amongst the archives, I spotted that Jim had taped the original broadcasts of Red Dwarf series one, around 26 years ago. I immediately got in touch to point out that if he happened to have captured the original idents and continuity announcements, he may have inadvertently struck nerd gold. Skip ahead a day or so, and Jim has only gone and put the buggers on Youtube. Read more →
The English Programme: The Writing of Spitting Image Quickies Posted by John Hoare on 9th January 2014, 06:03 Whilst G&T is waiting for news on the Dwarf front, here's something rather interesting I was pointed towards on Twitter. The English Programme was a Thames schools programme examining, well, English - and in one edition which some kind soul has uploaded to YouTube, they take a look at The Writing of Spitting Image. (It was first broadcast on the 8th January 1986, but was repeated later, outside of schools programming.) The reason it's so interesting to us, of course, is that this is exactly the time Rob and Doug were head writers of the show. But not only do we get lots of shots of the two sitting in grey offices being slightly awkward, rather endearing, and very fascinating - but the end credits reveal that this entire episode of The English Programme was written by Rob and Doug themselves! Let's have a gander, shall we? Read more →
James at Last! Quickies Posted by Jonathan Capps on 4th September 2013, 10:00 Well, this is quite the nice curio for your Friday morning. Somewhere among the fan-fic, Rimmer/Lister gifs and weirdly out of date pictures of the Trojan premiere that make up the Red Dwarf Tumblr tag, a chap called Kyle (grayk85) has posted a clip of the 'Copacabana' scene from Terrorform. What makes this especially interesting, however, is that the clip comes from the original 1992 airing and so features the oft discussed James Last version of the piece, which had to be replaced for all future repeats and home releases because reasons. Kyle's post features a version where he's pasted the audio over the DVD footage, but since this is G&T and we're horrible, pedantic TWATS, we're going to embed the original, low quality, rip below the jump. ENJOY THIS MOMENTOUS DISCOVERY. Read more →
Introducing the G&T Silver Survey Quickies Posted by Jonathan Capps on 3rd January 2013, 12:57 It will have hardly escaped anyone's attention that 2013 is Red Dwarf's 25th Anniversary year. In order to do the occasion justice we thought we'd gather everyone together and have a bit of an old survey. In the spirit of the Fan Club's BTL surveys of old, we're inviting as many Red Dwarf fans as possible to rank all 61 episodes in order of their preference in an attempt to gather a comprehensive snap-shot of fan opinion from across the web. Everyone is welcome, so we hope that not only will you contribute your list but you will enlist as many friends as possible, even if they consider Krytie TV to be the height of brilliance. All we ask is that everyone taking part has seen all the episodes and that their ordering is honest. Read more →
WordPress to your mother Quickies Posted by Jonathan Capps on 8th September 2012, 00:09 G&T gone dun a re-launch! Rather than boring you all half to sleep with the finer details, I’ll keep this brief and to the point. Continue reading →
“There’s something out there, something big…” Quickies Posted by Jonathan Capps on 30th August 2012, 20:55 Hello! You know that Red Dwarf X thing that’s happening? Yeah, forget about all that for a moment, we’re going to talk about ourselves for a bit. Now, pay attention because this concerns YOU. Continue reading →
