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    Somebody
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/17/television

    Meanwhile, UKTV Gold will be rebranded as GOLD, which stands for “go on, laugh daily”, with four new episodes of Red Dwarf featuring a mix of new material and archive as its centre point marking the comedy’s 20th anniversary.

    EDIT: Comments here, please.

    #84480
    Jo
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    Oooh…

    Key cast members of Blackadder, including Stephen Fry, will also appear in a new two-part documentary about the series called The Whole Rotten Saga.

    :oD

    #84482
    Ridley
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    Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan’s forthcoming show on new channel Watch will be called Richard and Judy’s New Position.

    Ew.

    #84483
    Pete Part Three
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    So the rumours (ie. The Sun) were, more or less, bang on correct.

    *Sigh*

    #84484
    hummingbird
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    Shit.

    But at least we get *some* new material.
    Let’s just pray for something substantial and not just a couple of weak lines to introduce the next clip.

    Who am I kidding? – at this point I’d settle for the guys reading Doug’s laundry list.

    No, wait, they did that already. It was called series VII.

    #84485
    Zombie Jim Undead
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    Fucking bastard piss and shit it. I haven’t got UK Gold.

    Bollocking cunts.

    And a glorified clip show. What a let-down.

    Unless it’s something like one clip show and 3 new or something.

    Though I still don’t have UK Bastard Gold.

    #84487
    Pete Part Three
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    The whole thing is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Aside from the inherent crapness of clip shows, the comedy from Red Dwarf (in its glory years, anyway) came from the characters and extremely inventive plot lines (echoes from the future, justice world, photos coming to life…) That’s why I liked it, anyway.

    Taking clips out of context won’t be particularly amusing to newcomers and will be dull for fans. On the same note, 3 minutes of gaggy comedy (in a similar vein to the CIN sketch or the PBS inserts) separating the archived clips will not really demonstrate why this show is so beloved.

    Sorry to piss on the parade, but I’d rather they didn’t dump another pile of shit on a once great show. This is, for all the excited rumours, the Red Dwarf sketch book. They’re not “new” episodes, they’re just revised repeats.

    For all the fanfare, you could have achieved much the same effect by dressing the cast in costume during the DVD documentaries.

    I think I’m more interested in the BlackAdder doc.

    #84488
    Zombie Jim Undead
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    Yes. This.

    #84489
    Ian Symes
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    Locking this thread now… more info and comments here: http://www.ganymede.tv/atspeed/2008/09/new-red-dwarf-definitely-confirmed-we-think

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