New Danny Interview on Digital Spy

[thomasaevans]

Nice piece from Danny talking about the BBC’s treatment of Red Dwarf:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/at-the-movies/a346735/top-10-worst-comic-book-movie-adaptations-of-all-time.html

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[Jonathan Capps]

You seem to have mistakenly posted an unimaginative list of poor movies.

[Pete Part Three]

>If that was on the BBC, it would’ve got 10 million viewers, there’s no question of that.

Um. No, Danny

[thomasaevans]

Oh smeg I did. However – that interview has now evolved into ‘Danny Attacks the BBC’

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a346775/danny-john-jules-red-dwarf-was-ignored-by-the-bbc.html

[John Hoare]

It got eight series commissioned by the BBC. Shut up, Danny.

[genericnerdyusername]

I’m not saying it’s a big deal, but the BBC isn’t just one person. It’s like when the original Doctor Who was treated pretty rubbishly (again; rubbishly is not a word?!) by the end of its run. At the start it was pretty well respected, but not at the end. The point I’m making an awful attempt at making is that different people in charge of commissioning/cancelling at different times will have different opinions on the worth of a show. So maybe Danny has a point that the person ultimately responsible (is there really ONE person ultimately responsible?) disrespected the show and its audience when declining to renew it for a ninth series… but a) is that person still in charge? and b) should we blanket the blame on the whole of the BBC?

Mind you, I am an idiot, remember.

[pfm]

The ‘Dwarf audience no longer BBC want’ (or whatever it was) comment is, and has always been, IMO totally misleading, just a stock response so they don’t have to start talking about money. If Dwarf was gonna cost the same as e.g. ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ to produce (2 basic sets in front of an audience, no exteriors) we could have seen a return to BBC2, or maybe even BBC1.

With the Dave commission, the commercial arm of the BBC (Worldwide) can still reap the rewards without TV having to front the resources to make the show in the first place.

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