Chris Barrie on Digital Spy

[Squeaky Gibson]

Whilst browsing Digital Spy today found this snippet, http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/news/a199666/barrie-hints-at-full-red-dwarf-return.html

Chris Barrie has hinted that sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf may return for a full series.

The comedian, who played Arnold Rimmer in the BBC comedy, claimed that he is keen for the show to continue, admitting that he loved working on three part mini-series Back To Earth last year.

“There is talk of more Red Dwarf this year and while Back To Earth was a good one-off, from the rumours I hear, we may be doing a more standard sort of series,” he told the Daily Record.

“But any new Red Dwarf is fine by me. I was surprised at just how quickly I slipped back into it. It took a couple of scenes to loosen up a bit but once you get the outfit on, you’re there.”

He added: “I don’t know what made the series work so well, I think the answer must be Doug Naylor. He’s a genius. He is well-versed in the sci-fi world and he and Rob Grant were great comedy writers, so I think Red Dwarf is the dream marriage of those two things.”

Red Dwarf ran for eight series between 1988 and 1999 on BBC Two. Back To Earth aired on Dave last April.

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[pfm]

That’s good to see. If there is a full series I hope there’s at least one full-on Rimmer-centric episode like the old days. Will be interesting to see how much of the series Craig can be in. Hopefully all of it, but he obviously has a proper job to consider…

[Jonsmad]

Yeah a Rimmer episode would be good, Back to earth was huge for Lister, so it would be good to see a new more rimmer based episode in whatever comes next.

[Blisschick]

I’d like to see the Cat meet up with one (or several) of his kind. Nothing has been explored there…that made filming, anyway.

[redhead85]

His official site also has him commenting on the new series:

“From what I hear we are still on target to make some new episodes of Red Dwarf in 2010.”

“there is talk of as many as six new episodes in 2010. If they happen, collectively they will probably go down as series 9.”

Oh my gosh, so nobody can agree on series numbering – why does this plight all of our favourite shows?! I’m going to stop there before various G&T members fall into boredom-induced comas.

[Dave]

After the League Of Gents Xmas special when asked about a third series Mark Gatiss said: “There won?t be a third series, but there will be a fourth…”

[Seb Patrick]

Back to Earth isn’t a series. Any new Dwarf is the ninth series. Easy.

[Jonathan Capps]

> Back to Earth isn?t a series. Any new Dwarf is the ninth series. Easy.

I think they should call it series 5.

[si]

Or Series 1.

[Phil1034]

Or Series 5.5/Apple/26.

[hummingbird]

I think we’ve experienced this period of time before.

[Squeaky Gibson]

So what is it?

[redhead85]

Ooh got my Sky magazine today and looks like Mr Barrie is on the front cover – presumably in line with his new series on Nat Geo.

[pfm]

> Back to Earth isn?t a series. Any new Dwarf is the ninth series. Easy.

Colossal failure.

[Pete Part Three]

They should have said Back to Earth was set “after series 9”, rather than “after series 10”. Then, any potential further series could be called Series 10, with the get-out clause that Back to Earth WAS series 9.

[Seb Patrick]

I have a spliced-together Director’s Cut that says BtE isn’t a series. It’s a feature that happened to be split into three on broadcast.

[Ben Paddon]

> They should have said Back to Earth was set ?after series 9?, rather than ?after series 10?.

Will people please stop reacting to what a fictional character said in a fictional universe about a fictional version of a real show as if they’d been to Doug Naylor’s house for dinner and he’d brought it up in conversation?

[ori-STUDFARM]

But that was said outside of the Red Dwarf world in the real universe!!

I joke. Only a blithering idiot would take that statement seriously!! I personally thing they should use BtE as a reboot and start at Series I again…

…or continue where they left off with and call this one series IX

…or maybe go alphabetical? Red Dwarf “A” anyone?

[Pete Part Three]

>Will people please stop reacting to what a fictional character said in a fictional universe about a fictional version of a real show as if they?d been to Doug Naylor?s house for dinner and he?d brought it up in conversation?

I don’t give two shits about what was said in the show, but this was just a way to rectify it from both an in-show perspective AND a real world perspective. It was a mini-series and the three episodes are all quite different from one another.

And yeah, this is inspired by Doug saying (tongue-in-cheek) that Series 10 (not 9) could be next. But, to return to my earlier point, he tripped up on this in-joke because, within the reality of BTE, there already was a series 10.

[ori-STUDFARM]

Conspiracy theory!! Doug didn’t write it!!

[Danny Stephenson]

What do you mean Red Dwarf isn’t real?

[pfm]

‘Red Dwarf X’ just looks good to me. It would work better for the Dave broadcast, the DVD release, the project as a whole because it can be taken just as a cool ‘X’ suffix rather than the series number. Would it have people fruitlessly searching for ‘Red Dwarf IX’ on DVD?? Maybe…but seeing as the eternal flames are coming for us all WHAT DOES IT MATTER???

And WHY DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOST’S IMMINENT RETURN????

[Ben Paddon]

Because LOST is, on the surface of things, a bit pants.

[Seb Patrick]

Only for the first couple of seasons.

[Dave]

>?Red Dwarf IX?

I love Gauls.

[Jonathan Capps]

> Because LOST is, on the surface of things, a bit pants.

WRONG.

> Only for the first couple of seasons.

WRONG, because seasons 1 and 2 were great and it was only season 3 that wobbled. THIS IS THE OBJECTIVE TRUTH.

[Jonathan Capps]

> What do you mean Red Dwarf isn?t real?

What do you mean “Flash Gordon approaching”?

[Fluffy Wok]

“Flying blind on a rocket cycle?”

[Danny Stephenson]

What do you mean ?Flash Gordon approaching??

[BrianBlessed] FLY MY HAWKMEN. FLY!!! [/BrianBlessed]. Tee hee.

[Tarka Dal]

> What do you mean ?Flash Gordon approaching??

Just a man, with a man’s courage.

[Blisschick]

Sam J. Jones gave a whole new meaning to the name Flesh…*coff* I mean Flash Gordon. 30 years later, and I still haven’t gotten the picture out of my head.

[pfm]

> seasons 1 and 2 were great and it was only season 3 that wobbled.

Plenty of season 1 and 2 are weak, moreso in retrospect. Of course, they are in no way throwaway seasons, it’s still some of the best TV ever, in particular certain classic episodes like, obviously, the pilot, ‘Deus Ex Machina’ (when Locke’s dad steals his kidney), ‘Man of Science, Man of Faith’ (season 2 opener ‘see you in another life, brother’), ‘The 23rd Psalm’ (brilliant Eko flashback episode and we see the smoke monster properly for the first time) and ‘Two For The Road’ (Ana-Lucia and Libby bite the dust, I don’t think I’ve ever been as stunned before or since lol).

Somewhere in season 3 an actual story started along with more true classics like ‘Flashes Before Your Eyes’. God, I’m gonna miss this show.

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