if there ever was to be a new holly .. who would you choose ?

[NitroChrisUK]

if in some future time they decided to bring holly back in some way shape or form … who would you chose to play him .. or indeed her

my vote goes to .. bill bailey

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[NitroChrisUK]

i think we should all throw in a tenner and send it to gnp.. wonder if they will just make rimmer alive to save budget on getting a H

[si]

You don’t need an H, just a felt tip.

[JamesTC]

Just think, the new episodes could be cancelled if someone leaves the top off a pen.

[NitroChrisUK]

you sure they can afford a pen ? may have to settle for pencil or a piece of chalk

[hummingbird]

hey, those pencils and chalk cost money too, you know

[JamesTC]

They could write it on the camera lens and always place Rimmer in the same place, that way if the worst happens and the felt tip runs out Rimmer can still have a H but he can’t move without the camera moving the same way he does.

[Danny Stephenson]

May have to settle for pencil or a piece of chalk.

They’ll be used for the models of Red Dwarf and White Midget, respectively.

[NitroChrisUK]

i dread to think what krytens costume going to be like a cardboard box for a head and some of them plastic trays u get in christmas selection box chcolate for the body

[locusceruleus]

>John Lithgow

Best suggestion by far.

[pfm]

The Banker and his evil laugh. Or one of the Power Five. Just have an open box in front of a black screen, the lid flaps open and shut like a mouth and the voice is sound clips of someone bringing up bile after they’ve walked away with 50p when they just turned down an offer of ?40,000 like the biggest, greediest idiot on television.

[hummingbird]

>i dread to think what krytens costume going to be like

black bin bags

[NitroChrisUK]

>black bin bags

if were lucky haha

[Carlito]

Why are GNP always so strapped for cash? (ie. tiny budget for latest episodes, no means to make a movie etc.)

I mean, I’m sure they don’t have a couple million going spare to just make a movie of course, but surely they could put a bit of money into new projects? Drum up cash for a movie by contributing towards the budget themselves?

It’s not like they haven’t released about 12 international best-selling DVDs over the last few years, or sold the programme to channels all over the world etc. There must be SOME cash in the coffers.

[NitroChrisUK]

thats what iv always thought i mean the amount of dvd sales and just the sucsess of the series in general …. and i mean if the league of gentlemen can have a movie( which i think is crap) then why not dwarf

[peas_and_corn]

>black bin bags

That might send Danny into a rage.

Will Smith.

[pfm]

> if the league of gentlemen can have a movie

It hardly cost anything to make. They saved money by shooting 90% of it in Ireland and not using film. The Dwarf movie needed a bigger budget otherwise they might as well have just stuck to TV. That’s one criticism of the League film, the series itself was already pretty film-like so it didn’t feel like much of a step up in scale (aside from the bits of CGI and the excellent stop-motion creature!). Dwarf always did wonders with a sitcom budget. Imagine what they could have done with ?15 million or so! Sadly I DO feel they would have struggled to make it back (at least at the box office). That’s obviously the main reason for investors pulling out.

[Dave]

>That?s obviously the main reason for investors pulling out

That and not being the Duke of Manchester

[genericnerdyusername]

Boris Johnson

[Tarka Dal]

> Drum up cash for a movie by contributing towards the budget themselves?

Wasn’t this the actual case?

As Cheeky Monkey says there was a desire for a Dwarf movie to look visually like a movie. I’ve mentioned it before, but look at Galaxy Quest. It’s sci-fi comedy, rather than straight sci-fi but the big set-pieces and visual FX all look the part. Infact some of visuals look better than in some straight sci-fi action movies. Unfortunately that kind of things costs an awful lot of money.

[hummingbird]

Galaxy Quest is a good example of what they should have been aiming for.
I would love to have seen what they could do with the same budget.

[Phil]

Sarah Palin

[peas_and_corn]

Apparently Sarah Palin helps Russians whose tanks have broken down outside her house. How nice of her.

[Mnoooah]

“Oh yeah, what books about space have you read, Holly?”

“Oh, you know, all of them…”

[Ben Paddon]

That would work alarmingly well.

[Mnoooah]

“And the moral is appreciate what you’ve got. Because bascially, I’m a pitbull with lipstick.”

Yeah, she could actually be better.

[Ridley]

I see his name mentioned and have seen an article on here calling him a cunt, who is he?

RedDwarfEatsCock sez: I’ll tell him you said that and I think he’ll be very hurt.

[Danny Stephenson]

That particular time was rather fun wasn’t it…

[hummingbird]

Those were the days. Where is he now, I wonder?
Thought he’d be all over the site now – what with the specials, n’all.

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