Dave ‘denies’ new series

[redhead85]

Did you guys spot this today…?

http://uktv.co.uk/dave/article/aid/630663

Looks like Dave wasn’t overly keen about the news that the scripts had been commissioned getting out. Mind you, I think they just felt it was too early to announce anything officially and were feeling a bit left out in the cold with all the excitement flying around that didn’t come from their mouths per se…

[Jonathan Capps]

Fuck Dave, they’ve been heavily hinting at this for ages!

[Dax101]

dave come accross as a channel full of idiots to handle shows like red dwarf :(

i mean i read somewhere that they asked doug naylor to make the red dwarf movie with them, and yet look at the small budget they gave BTE, makes me wonder what they were hoping for with the movie *shrug*

[Pete Part Three]

Got a source for that?

[Jonathan Capps]

> Got a source for that?

He’s already said: “somewhere”.

[John Hoare]

http://uktv.co.uk/dave/article/aid/630663

This is fucking hilarious.

Hooray for stupid politics!

[hummingbird]

if there is any news, any news at all!! You will hear about it on joindave.co.uk first!

Or maybe not.

[Squeaky Gibson]

I bet once they get all contracts signed and get funding etc, it won’t be specualtion and they’ll be making a lot of fuss!

[Pete Part Three]

>He?s already said: ?somewhere?.

Fair enough, because they are quite reliable. I learnt from the same place that there’s a 13th Fawlty Towers episode, Michael Jackson is still alive and The Sarah Connor Chronicles is getting a third season.

[Dax101]

“somewhere” being SFX magazine, june 2009 :P

[The PerformingMonkey]

SFX can go fuck themselves after their ‘review’ of BtE. Not that this is relevant atm but…they just can.

[redhead85]

It should all go smoothly from Doug’s scriptwriting to shooting and eventual air next year, but I think Dave are trying to get all eyes back on them again with the whole ‘WE’LL say when a new series of Red Dwarf is going to be announced, don’t worry folks’.

[Seb Patrick]

I like how in the website writer’s attempt to save face, they’re essentially calling Doug Naylor a liar.

[Trena]

I still chuckle at the utterly clueless sods at the BBC who passed up the chance to launch a ninth series.

[J_Spaced]

I, apparently, am a two-faced double-standards grammar wierdo. I can cope with the Official Site forum thread stating that “Dave deny’s new series” with a wry smile and a shrug. Who is Dave deny and what is his new series?

But the fact!! That Dave’s own site!! Broke up a single sentence!! With unneccessary punctuation!! Makes me think they were away on the day the brains were being handed out.

[Gwynnie]

Oh dear, what have you started (in particular, Bobby Llew… and Seb)? ;) Let’s hope they don’t get too pissed off with Doug for revealing it too soon and pull funding. Of course, if they do, we can go kick them in the eyes.

[Jonsmad]

Do they realise how dedicated, sci fi news enthusiasm styled, and latest technology net wise savy most of the Red Dwarf audience is, world wide. Do they have a clue how Dimension Jump is the focal point of hardcore fandom and so totally the place to make news announcements first about Red Dwarf, certainly after years of the tradition and some of the previous announcements. They should have sent a few people and made something of the annoucement there and filmed it and whacked it straight up videowise on their website, all together, instead of a silly little statement like this. Even if they just see this stage as a script commission not a series being made. Especially when over all this era that brought back to earth was very highly achieving in online use, and public event promotioning. As it is,
what they are saying is just really silly.

It’s not started. It’s started.

[Dave]

They will deny it three times…

[Mr Flibble]

It seems to me that Dave don’t realise how important telling the fanbase is…

[Seb Patrick]

Nor that, while they may be the ones paying for it this time, they don’t actually own the franchise, and so their website doesn’t have a divine right to be the first to inform people.

[Jonathan Capps]

Besides, they should make any announcements DOWN THE PUB WIV THE LADS, not on their silly geeky website.

[Pete Part Three]

They should schedule a televised announcement and then, at a crucial moment, abruptly cut to Mitchell and Webb dressed a chickens.

[Dax101]

dave have gained red dwarf fans support, if they turn down making a new series that would turn alot of fans against them

its like them promising something that they decide not to deliver

[hummingbird]

It looks like they’ve now revised the tone of their article

Well, you may have heard some rumours rumbling around deep space about Doug Naylor working on some more script ideas and this is indeed true. But, without wishing to sound like a big old party pooper, it’s still early days and we can’t officially announce anything definite at the moment, much as we’d love to.

*amused*

[Jo]

Sounds like they finally found out that it was Doug who announced it, rather than just believing all the reports that it was Bobby.

[ori-STUDFARM]

But we were all told to keep shtum! I never heard a thing!

[Dax101]

so a load of excited red dwarf fans were told to keep quiet? and not post it on the internet? shocking!!!

sounds abit strange and was never gonna be kept quiet

[Trena]

We were told to keep quiet, but 400 hardcore Dwarf nerds in a room become a slightly scary, quite clammy and oily force after a few tidbits of good news.

[Jonathan Capps]

Even if everyone stayed quiet, Rob still would’ve mentioned it on Twitter.

[Trena]

He has to, Sarah Brown and Robert keep Twitter afloat nowadays.

[Tarka Dal]

Who’s Sarah Brown?

[Trena]

She’s shagging Gordon.

It paints a sadly vivid picture.

[si]

She?s shagging Gordon.

It paints a sadly vivid picture.

It needs to be vivid for old ‘Golden’. He has some depth perception issues.

[Trena]

I’m blind in my left eye as well you wildly insensitive clod.

I can’t watch a 3D movie to save myself, which makes me quietly weep inside as people around me delight in the recent Toy Story double bill.

[Mr Flibble]

You could quickly move the lenses back and forth past your good eye?

[Kris Carter]

What about other visual effects, like split screen, slow motion, quantel? ;)

[Steve Harris]

Unless I’ve missed something, I cant really see what the fuss is about.

Given GNP’s previous age old policy of not announcing anything until it’s written in stone, surely this is just advising caution. At least they’ve confirmed that things are going on in the background.

It seems to me that Dave are simply doing what TOS have been doing for 10 years.

[Dave]

>It seems to me that Dave are simply doing what TOS have been doing for 10 years.

And depending on today’s TOS update, may still be doing.

[littlesmegger]

> …as people around me delight in the recent Toy Story double bill.

Speaking of the double bill, does anyone know the reason the UK has been ripped off and had the two films split up, therefore making us have to pay twice. We should’ve had the double bill just like everyone else. *shakes fist*

[hummingbird]

> Unless I?ve missed something, I cant really see what the fuss is about.

The first draft of that article was tantamount to calling Doug a liar.

[Steve Harris]

Well, clearly I have missed something then..

[Steve Harris]

It is an interesting turn of events though..

Many’s the time that GNP have been accused of missing the boat when it comes to giving out news. The policy is (or was) always to hang fire on stuff until it was set in stone, often being beaten to the announcement by this very site (other sites are available of course).
Mr Llewellyn was publically reigned in over BTE snippets let slip in advance!

Surely, Andrew and/or Doug must be fairly sure of their facts therefore.

Having said that, the fact that Doug is working on scripts and that talks are ongoing (commissioned or not)doesn’t mean that everything is signed, sealed and delivered quite yet.

Which is what I read into Daves message really,but then, I wasn’t aware of a different draft.

[Tarka Dal]

> (other sites are available of course).

SEIZE HIM! A NON-BELIEVAAAAAAAAAH!

[Steve Harris]

Pft, what about TRD for instance then?

Ok, it’s a fair cop, someone shoot me…

[Tarka Dal]

I’m only kidding Darling.

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