Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Comedy, Chaos – and Cowboys! Search for: This topic has 52 replies, 21 voices, and was last updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago by si. Scroll to bottom Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 53 total) 1 2 Author Posts January 1, 2025 at 7:49 pm #301607 thomasaevansParticipant Apologies if this has been posted/discussed but couldn’t see it anywhere. The author of ‘The Making of Red Dwarf’ book from ’94 has published a new book this year: “In the winter of 1993, American journalist Joe Nazzaro was commissioned by the producers of Red Dwarf to write a behind-the-scenes making-of book about the cult sci-fi comedy series. For nearly two months, Nazzaro was given unprecedented access to the production, from the very first day of location filming to the final audience recording. During that time, he kept meticulous notes on virtually every aspect of the shoot. Sadly, much of that material was ultimately cut from the book’s final draft and has never seen the light of day- until now, that is. Comedy, Chaos and Cowboys! tells the real story of Red Dwarf, from last-minute changes to deleted scenes, as well as more than a few R-rated outtakes. There are also extensive interviews with principal cast and crew members, guest stars and a day-by-day filming diary.” January 1, 2025 at 8:01 pm #301608 PodeyParticipant I’m interested in that book but that publisher really needs a better cover designer. January 1, 2025 at 9:19 pm #301609 DaveParticipant Hmmm, this could be an interesting read. First I’ve heard of it. January 2, 2025 at 1:28 am #301611 GlenTokyoParticipant I’m interested in that book but that publisher really needs a better cover designer. It has “cover of a VHS tape of steam trains going through a train station in the Midlands that you had to order from a man called Neville with a geocities website” vibes. January 2, 2025 at 10:06 am #301618 Ian SymesKeymaster Bloody hell, how did we miss this? Tom Salinsky has much better PR. January 2, 2025 at 10:13 am #301619 WarbodogParticipant I only got the original 90s book fairly recently and thought it was good enough already, with lots of nice, moody VI pics. Hoping Nazzaro has a Piggate-level revelation about someone in the cast or crew to boost the show’s profile in 2025. January 2, 2025 at 11:10 am #301621 JonsmadParticipant Thanks Tom, :-) That’s my Christmas money spent. So his original book was behind the scenes of VI right? So this is like the deleted scenes of stuff compiled for that book. Joyous start to the Dwarf year that. look forward to reading it. Thanks again for the link. January 2, 2025 at 11:27 am #301622 DaveParticipant Yeah, the original book was this one (which is mainly focused on Gunmen specifically). I haven’t read it in years but I remember it having a lot of photos but being fairly light in terms of deep detail, so maybe this new book will redress the balance. I’ve ordered it so we’ll see. January 2, 2025 at 12:03 pm #301623 WarbodogParticipant Slightly-misleading double whammy with the old book looking like it’s titled The Making of Red Dwarf: Last Chance Saloon and that those characters are the Four Apocalypse Boys. It’s cool how they made Cat’s legs into a 3D stand though. January 2, 2025 at 12:12 pm #301624 DaveParticipant It’s cool how they made Cat’s legs into a 3D stand though. That was actually part of the early prototype work for Booky, an AI tool to assist Making-Of writers. January 2, 2025 at 12:29 pm #301625 Ian SymesKeymaster Ah, the old cut out a publicity shot and put it on a blue background school of mid-90s Red Dwarf book covers. Or sometimes don’t even bother with the photo. January 2, 2025 at 3:35 pm #301628 Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day nowParticipant It’s cool how they made Cat’s legs into a 3D stand though. January 2, 2025 at 3:57 pm #301630 International DebrisParticipant It sounds more like the title about a sitcom set in the wild west tbh. January 2, 2025 at 4:23 pm #301631 RidleyParticipant Do you like that one? Gunmen? January 2, 2025 at 5:55 pm #301633 Flap JackParticipant I must apologise to Tom Salinsky for being at all negative about his book’s cover. I had no idea. January 2, 2025 at 9:58 pm #301636 Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day nowParticipant Okay but can we just take a moment to appreciate that the photographer openly trades under the name Nobby? January 3, 2025 at 5:20 am #301643 DaveParticipant Okay but can we just take a moment to appreciate that the photographer openly trades under the name Nobby? January 3, 2025 at 7:52 am #301647 WarbodogParticipant January 3, 2025 at 8:05 am #301648 cwickhamParticipant January 3, 2025 at 11:03 am #301651 DaveParticipant January 3, 2025 at 11:30 am #301652 DaveParticipant January 3, 2025 at 11:34 am #301653 clemParticipant January 3, 2025 at 11:49 am #301655 Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day nowParticipant Ahhh, I love this forum so much. January 3, 2025 at 12:02 pm #301656 thomasaevansParticipant Well! I’m delighted to take up my new position as head of PR for Joe, i’ve just increased his sales by 212%. Marvellous. January 3, 2025 at 12:30 pm #301657 WarbodogParticipant January 3, 2025 at 12:49 pm #301658 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobby_Clark_(photographer) In 2005 he was production photographer for the 7th series of cult UK television comedy Red Dwarf.[5] Someone needs to update that Interestingly though, there’s a Nobby Clark who worked as a technical advisor on London’s Burning. Which really confused me when all the Nobby Clark memes started. Unfortunately not the same person as the photographer https://londons-burning.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_Clark January 3, 2025 at 6:54 pm #301660 RudolphParticipant January 3, 2025 at 7:18 pm #301661 PodeyParticipant This has all reminded me of a news story from the 2000s (can’t find it, sadly) about a bloke who got so over excited after Nolberto “Nobby” Solano scored for Newcastle that he pulled his trousers and pants down and ran around the house pointing at his knob and shouting “NOBBY!!! NOBBY!!” to such an extent that his wife called the police on him. January 3, 2025 at 9:59 pm #301663 MoonlightParticipant January 3, 2025 at 10:08 pm #301664 DaveParticipant January 3, 2025 at 10:16 pm #301666 MoonlightParticipant I specifically scrolled up to check what had already been posted and that is the only one I missed. January 4, 2025 at 12:06 am #301669 UnrumbleParticipant January 4, 2025 at 12:11 am #301670 UnrumbleParticipant January 4, 2025 at 12:28 am #301671 TechnopeasantParticipant Ahhh, I love this forum so much January 4, 2025 at 12:53 am #301672 Nick RParticipant January 4, 2025 at 8:11 am #301675 DaveParticipant January 4, 2025 at 10:22 am #301678 WarbodogParticipant January 8, 2025 at 10:45 pm #301785 thomasaevansParticipant Post’s arrived. A book is a thing of beauty. The voice of freedom. It’s the essence of civilisation. It’s fucking freezing here tonight so I might need to burn it. January 9, 2025 at 3:08 am #301788 TechnopeasantParticipant January 9, 2025 at 11:33 am #301796 JonsmadParticipant I’m really enjoying the book. Re-reading the old book as well alongside it. It starts by referencing the film “Almost Famous” which I love too, about a young writer wanting freedom in their writing style. It’s great to read this extensively about series VI in 2025. I do think I understand why Rob & Doug would have wanted a making of book to be edited down from this longer notes & interviews presented here. It’s too long and dull for a more general audience so they were aiming for a more glossy concise coffee table book of the times, rather than a beat by beat account of hanging around all of series VI. I’ve not found any huge controversy in it yet, but there are a few small comments they might have wanted to protect people from at a time when they were still actively making dwarf. We know from some of the DVD documentaries that Doug at least never shied away from more controversial topics about troubles in making of’s. At this distance of time, after the first published book was a sucess, it’s a wonderful double deeper dip. I find myself reading short interviews with Clare CP Grogan and Anita Dobson. and im transported to the set because my imagination knows what all these deleted and behind the scenes moments look like from the DVD extras world etc. So as a result im imagining new takes, Smeg ups and on set tom foolery as if im there. It is amusing that the writer seems to spot things fans might have said, about rimmers costume or the appendix etc. SPOILERS: From the writers Interview. Talk of an episode idea about parasites, I wonder if this went into Epideme? and mind editing – sounds very like they could have written eternal sunshine of the spotless mind a decade earlier as a sitcom, but then they kind of had done in thanks for the memory in a different way before. January 9, 2025 at 12:57 pm #301798 DaveParticipant and mind editing – sounds very like they could have written eternal sunshine of the spotless mind a decade earlier as a sitcom, but then they kind of had done in thanks for the memory in a different way before. The mind editing stuff also crops up in the Events & Moments script that was performed as (the first?) one of the Lockdown Theatre performances. January 13, 2025 at 8:52 am #301890 Ian SymesKeymaster Got this now. Spotted a factual error in the first clause of the first sentence of the back cover blurb. January 13, 2025 at 9:24 am #301891 DaveParticipant Got this now. Spotted a factual error in the first clause of the first sentence of the back cover blurb. Luckily it’s absolutely the only error in the whole of the book. January 13, 2025 at 10:54 am #301895 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant January 15, 2025 at 8:30 am #301943 AsclepiusParticipant Post’s arrived. A book is a thing of beauty. The voice of freedom. It’s the essence of civilisation. It’s fucking freezing here tonight so I might need to burn it. The words on the back cover are blurry. Also, the book is bent across the back middle in a sort of arc shape. You would do right to burn it. January 15, 2025 at 8:54 am #301944 Ian SymesKeymaster I think you’ve got a dodgy print, mine is fine on those counts. January 15, 2025 at 2:49 pm #301953 AsclepiusParticipant I think you’ve got a dodgy print, mine is fine on those counts. My apologies, Sir. I had engaged humor mode. (I was referring to the quality of the photo thomasevans had taken of his book). January 22, 2025 at 7:55 pm #302127 JonsmadParticipant Page 119 quotes Rob on the set of Emohawk joking to Craig that there will be. Lister-Rimmer kiss in episode six of VI. So… Rob wrote a bit of Blue for VII. Sort of. We can poke a tiny bit more scorn at those people who post “Rob was the funny one” when they watch and didn’t like VII. January 23, 2025 at 4:14 am #302137 MoonlightParticipant Rob was the funny one if you find genital mutilation hilarious. January 23, 2025 at 7:15 am #302144 UnrumbleParticipant Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 53 total) 1 2 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In