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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[Moonlight]

[loadoftottnumb]

I’m camping outside Battersea Power Station already. 

[Stephen Abootman]

No website update but ‘An Audience With Chris Barrie’ is taking place in Birmingham on Friday 1st November (so no Red Dwarf studio recordings that night I guess) .

“Following a screening of the much-loved Red Dwarf season six episode Rimmerworld, Chris will be talking about his fascinating career to festival programmer David Baldwin, taking us from Rimmer to Brittas and everything in between..“

https://macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/an-audience-with-chris-barrie

[Dave]

The MAC is great, and they always put on good events. Will have to try and make it to this one.

[Stephen Abootman]

What a way to come back after 6 months:

[Flap Jack]

Oh my fucking god.

There’s no way Chris Barrie saw the incredibly nothing news that Jaguar were planning to make a pink car, and fully organically concluded that it was all part of a gay, transgender and Jewish conspiracy to destroy Britishness, gender and human consciousness. This guy has the Daily Express hooked directly into his veins. His brain is beyond cooked at this point, it’s burned to a crisp.

[Dave]

[Rudolph]

[Dave]

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

[Moonlight]

[Moonlight]

[Unrumble]

[Technopeasant]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s really quite sad at how upset some people get about how a company chooses to market itself. And that that marketing is somehow a “culture”.

[RunawayTrain]

Oh.  Oh no.

He has a point that the rebrand is awful (as expected, because what rebrands ever actually are an improvement these days??).  But all the rest, that’s a big fat yelping YIKES from me.

Hoo boy.

[Dave]

[International Debris]

You can tell an over privileged idiot because at a time when we have genocide, the rise of fascism and such, his ‘state of the world’ issue is a fucking car advert. 

[Warbodog]

They made pink and blue versions of the car, which is as traditionally gender-coded as it gets, so calm down.

[Dave]

[Ben Saunders]

[Dave]

[Ridley]

[Nick R]

[cwickham]

[Unrumble]

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

Pink skutter

In fairness, if Parallel Universe was released today it would be called woke by the media.

[Technopeasant]

You can tell an over privileged idiot because at a time when we have genocide, the rise of fascism and such, his ‘state of the world’ issue is a fucking car advert.

[Jonathan Capps]

Imagine the indignity of Indians owning something

[Asclepius]

I’ve only listened to the DVD commentaries over the last few months, but what really surprises me is that Chris – of all of the four ‘boys’ – is the most respectful of everyone he’s worked with, willing to put in a good word or defend other actors, crew-members, keen to know the names of actors in smaller roles, etc.

Contrast that with Danny, who’s actively obnoxious at times, Craig who wants to rip the piss out of people at times, and Robert who – sometimes – is just talking about the beauty of some of the female actors/women in general.

Even on the behind-the-scenes videos made for each of the new series, Chris seems the most appreciative of being able to do the stories, putting up with the various (slapstick) indignities etc. and now this. Ever-increasingly this.

Did a damn burst? Or like many “anti-wokesters”, was he always of this mind set, but his public persona of being ever-polite stopped it rising to the surface?

[IrisVinEverec]

You can be polite and lovely (everyone who meets him at conventions says he is a lovely person), but also believe that things were better in [insert whatever date in the past that person relates to because they were relatively comfortable and “at home” with the prevailing culture of that time], which is basically what he is saying. 

He and I would probably not choose to be close friends in real life, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t be polite to each other in a work/public environment. 

[Moonlight]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

You can be polite and lovely (everyone who meets him at conventions says he is a lovely person), but also believe that things were better in [insert whatever date in the past that person relates to because they were relatively comfortable and “at home” with the prevailing culture of that time], which is basically what he is saying. 

He and I would probably not choose to be close friends in real life, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t be polite to each other in a work/public environment. 

But would he be polite to you in a WOKE environment? Eh?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[IrisVinEverec]

You can be polite and lovely (everyone who meets him at conventions says he is a lovely person), but also believe that things were better in [insert whatever date in the past that person relates to because they were relatively comfortable and “at home” with the prevailing culture of that time], which is basically what he is saying. 
He and I would probably not choose to be close friends in real life, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t be polite to each other in a work/public environment. 

But would he be polite to you in a WOKE environment? Eh?

He probably meets many “woke” people at these conventions. I’ve never read any reports to say he has been anything other than a pleasure to meet. 

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

I wonder how he’d get on with Data Doctor.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

You can be polite and lovely (everyone who meets him at conventions says he is a lovely person), but also believe that things were better in [insert whatever date in the past that person relates to because they were relatively comfortable and “at home” with the prevailing culture of that time], which is basically what he is saying. 
He and I would probably not choose to be close friends in real life, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t be polite to each other in a work/public environment. 
But would he be polite to you in a WOKE environment? Eh?

He probably meets many “woke” people at these conventions. I’ve never read any reports to say he has been anything other than a pleasure to meet. 

He’s an actor that’s paid to be there. Not hard to put on a smile and shake someone’s hand for cash. 

I really do wish you are right and these online outbursts aren’t who he is but there’s too many and too egregious and almost targeted to ignore 

[Dave]

I mean, there are little hints of it in person too. At that screening I went to recently he was asked about a Brittas remake or revival and said that due to the way shows were made nowadays it would just become a “box-ticking exercise”, and I was quite glad when the conversation swiftly moved on.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’d read that more as a “tv is very formulaic and written for algorithms” which is true of a lot of streaming stuff.

[Flap Jack]

Yeah, I mean the psychology of it is that he can’t actually conceive of how hateful and deranged he sounds. He won’t think any of these things apply to the nice people he meets at conventions and such. After all, they seem like normal right-thinking people, and he’s a normal right-thinking person. He probably quietly assumes that everyone he respects either agrees with him or only has minor differences of opinion, or that they just aren’t particularly political or outspoken about it but if they did their research they’d be with him.

It’s like if you published an angry rant about white supremacists, and occasionally said something anti-Nazi at events. You wouldn’t assume that many of the nice, normal people you interacted with were quietly really upset or angry that you denounce white supremacy, you’d assume they were antifascist too, because it’s a common sense political opinion as far as you’re concerned. And if someone did confront you about it, you wouldn’t think “wow, if someone who seemed like a good person is a Nazi, maybe I’m wrong and Nazis are good”, you’d think “wow, it’s so depressing how otherwise nice-seeming people get seduced by white nationalism”. 

Obviously only one of these perspectives is based on reality, but once you’re convinced you’re right, you’ll rationalise anything which might doubt you.

[GlenTokyo]

Why does he care enough to comment about modern cars at all? Elon Musk and Nigel Farage could design a car called the Bulldog Woke Destroyer and he still wouldn’t like it, because it’d still be a modern car.

He likes shit that looks like it carried a despot around with a giant V12 aeroplane derived engine in it. Nothing a car company could do today would be to his satisfaction.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s what Jaguar stands for isn’t it. A traditionally English company that appealed to a certain type of gentleman.

Now Jaguar has decided it is no longer interested in the audience it used to attract … or more precisely has recognised if it wants to continue to succeed it has to modernise  

I guess if you feel the world is constantly turning its back on white men in favour of everyone else, and then a company you thought represented you lurches for everyone else too, you’d be upset. 

I still think it’s dumb but I sort of get it even if it’s wrong 

[Ben Saunders]

and Robert who – sometimes – is just talking about the beauty of some of the female actors/women in general

Me watching Katerina in BtE: God she’s sexy

Bobby on the commentary: She is very sexy, isn’t she

Me to Bobby on the commentary: Alright alright, put a sock in it mate, that’s no way to talk about a lady.

Danny is at least jovial when it comes to his divaness, Norman on the other hand has caused me to pause the Series 8 commentary at the beginning of his re-re-telling of the “legit” story and I don’t intend on coming back to it

[Warbodog]

Did a damn burst? Or like many “anti-wokesters”, was he always of this mind set, but his public persona of being ever-polite stopped it rising to the surface?

He said he was a Daily Mail reader in a 2008 interview, he’s been along for the ride.

[RunawayTrain]

I mean, there are little hints of it in person too. At that screening I went to recently he was asked about a Brittas remake or revival and said that due to the way shows were made nowadays it would just become a “box-ticking exercise”, and I was quite glad when the conversation swiftly moved on.

You’ve just reminded me, back in 2020 there was a Brittas reunion streamed on Facebook and he said something like that then too, which rang an alarm bell.  I had hoped at the time that that was all it was, but evidently not *sigh*.

[Technopeasant]

Well, the trick was to convince him that cars not being like they used to was a political issue. It’s the boomer version of gamergate.

[Ian Symes]

God forbid there’d be a woke version of Brittas. They’d probably have two of the characters as a gay couple or something.

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