Chris Barrie has updated his website

[Bargain Bin Holly]

http://www.chrisbarrie.co.uk/

He mentions the weather, tanks, and his dislike of people requesting his appearance on podcasts; but he also included this tidbit on future Red Dwarf and Brittas Empire:

“At the risk of repeating something I seem to have said many times over the last umpteen years, I simply do not know if/when we will be doing more Red Dwarf. Over the winter of 2015/16 when we made series 11 and 12, some common sense momentum seemed to be building, but, since then, the project seems to have juddered to a halt. In the desert of silence I do encounter the occasional droplet of positivity but that’s it. If the droplet ever becomes a trickle, I shall of course leap to the keyboard and let you know.

The Brittas position is not dissimilar. Since the promising newspaper articles of a couple of years ago and the enthusiasm of the Reunion last year, it all seems to have gone all quiet on the Whitbury front. All I can do is continue to express my desire to recreate the chainsaw voiced ogre and that is something I shall certainly keep doing.”

Thanks to Chris Barrie Fans for making this known on Twitter.

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[Dave]

[Stephen Abootman]

An update today, he’s removed the paragraph about being a step closer to making new Red Dwarf and keeping those fingers crossed (although that was from nearly a year ago to be fair)

[Dave]

Well, that’s not a great sign, is it.

[Stephen Abootman]

Probably just making room for a new anniversary relevant update next month

[Frank Smeghammer]

It’s a shame really because when Chris updates his website this thread is really good value for a laugh.

Pound for pound this might be the best thread in the history of the site. I should know, I’ve spent a lot of time reading it all.

The variation of meme trends in just 23 pages is unmatched

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s a shame really because when Chris updates his website this thread is really good value for a laugh.
Pound for pound this might be the best thread in the history of the site. I should know, I’ve spent a lot of time reading it all.
The variation of meme trends in just 23 pages is unmatched

May I introduce you to the Idea for an Episode thread?

[Dave]

[Jenuall]

[Unrumble]

It’s a shame really because when Chris updates his website this thread is really good value for a laugh.
Pound for pound this might be the best thread in the history of the site. I should know, I’ve spent a lot of time reading it all.
The variation of meme trends in just 23 pages is unmatched

May I introduce you to the Idea for an Episode thread?

[Jenuall]

[Stephen Abootman]

May I introduce you to the Idea for an Episode thread?

[Dave]

[Jenuall]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Jenuall]

[Dave]

[Unrumble]

[Warbodog]

[Formica]

KRYTIE STD

Archie learns he has contacted gonorrhea, and has to contact his previous sexual partners to advise them to get checked out. The studio audience finds this all hilarious, and perfectly fitting for an episode of Red Dwarf. Robert Llewellyn describes it as “some of the best Red Dwarf ever made”, and Chris Barrie declares it a “True return to form”. The media agrees when it makes it to air. Then everyone revises their opinions and declares it “a pile of shite” about 18 months later.

NINEELEVENTICA

Misjudged attempt to appeal to American viewers. When the guys accidentally prevent –

LISTER: I don’t want to know!

I nominate these Ideas for Hall of Episode status. Hall of Fame, too, I suppose.

[Frank Smeghammer]

May I introduce you to the Idea for an Episode thread?

I love that thread. I’m just not proud of my love for that thread. It’s a beautiful abomination

[Dave]

[Stephen Abootman]

[Flap Jack]

[Unrumble]

[Jenuall]

[Dave]

[Unrumble]

[Jenuall]

[Unrumble]

[Dave]

[RunawayTrain]

Don’t give them ideas!!

[Nick R]

[Dave]

Superb.

[Stephen Abootman]

An update, with huge news for fans of a franchise very popular in 1993!

That’s right, Simon the Sorcerer. 

[Jenuall]

Ah yes, a prequel – the perfect situation to make use of the vocal talents of someone now 30 years older…

[Warbodog]

I loved Simon the Sorcerer, but couldn’t stand the voice version and turned it off, he sounded bored and detached. Plus I think Simon’s supposed to be a teenager even in the original.

[Moonlight]

I loved Simon the Sorcerer, but couldn’t stand the voice version and turned it off, he sounded bored and detached.

As someone who works with actors and considering this was a 90s video game, I can 100% guarantee you that he was given shit direction. Hell, more likely than not he wouldn’t have even had any context for any of the lines he was reading. Just going down a big list of dialogue in alphabetical order or something.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

“When I have further details of the release etc, I shall put them on this website”

said as if it’s the only place any details will be updated. The games entire marketing budget is Chris Barrie’s personal blog

[Dave]

“When I have further details of the release etc, I shall put them on this website”
said as if it’s the only place any details will be updated. The games entire marketing budget is Chris Barrie’s personal blog

A semi-regularly-updated website is the kind of marketing clout that Red Dwarf can only dream of.

[International Debris]

Ah yes, a prequel – the perfect situation to make use of the vocal talents of someone now 30 years older…

This was first in line to become Big Finish Productions’s motto until someone came up with “for the love of stories”.

[Moonlight]

I think they should cast Philip Labey.

[Captain Bollocks]

I still remember the comic con Q&A he did where he was asked if he still had any connection to video games, and he said (paraphrasing) that he had no interest in them and that he wished people would stop wasting their lives on them and spend more time doing things of value instead (such as collecting classic cars I guess, because presumably if it’s his hobby then it isn’t a waste of time?) 

Still, take the money, eh Chris? 

[Moonlight]

That is a boomer-ass take if I ever heard one. As if their generation didn’t grow up watching television.

[Jenuall]

It’s probably the bloody woke mind virus that’s driven us all to waste our lives on videogames!

Either that or it was Corbyn. 

Ah yes, a prequel – the perfect situation to make use of the vocal talents of someone now 30 years older…

This was first in line to become Big Finish Productions’s motto until someone came up with “for the love of stories”.

^_^

[Moonlight]

[Flap Jack]

Chris Barrie said that? Of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider fame?

[Moonlight]

Chris Barrie said that? After he narrated the Infinity text adventure in my mind?

I got killed by a bliss freak.

[RunawayTrain]

I still remember the comic con Q&A he did where he was asked if he still had any connection to video games, and he said (paraphrasing) that he had no interest in them and that he wished people would stop wasting their lives on them and spend more time doing things of value instead (such as collecting classic cars I guess, because presumably if it’s his hobby then it isn’t a waste of time?) 
Still, take the money, eh Chris? 

Part of me wants to ask how long ago that was, because I always hope that if it was long enough ago someone may have changed their views.  But considering the views we’ve heard from him in the past few years, I’m not confident that would be relevant in this case anyway.

[Moonlight]

[Nick R]

Chris Barrie said that? Of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider fame?

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