So what do you think we'll be getting for the 30th?

[GlenTokyo]

Seems like something would have been leaked because of the cast if it was anything major involving them

BBFC filings and such would come out if it was some kind of DVD or Blu-ray

Maybe it’ll be a Dave mini Dwarf night, lots of episodes maybe with some cast interviews but I’m thinking we’re getting announcements.

New series announcement on the TV? Commentaries for download? A new book or something?

What do you think?

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[flanl3]

The schedule lists Mechocracy, Back to Reality, Twentica, Polymorph, Samsara, and Holoship, not Timewave.

[Ben Saunders]

That’s a nice selection. I’d replace Samsara with Officer Rimmer or something, though. Back to Reality is a no-brainer.

[Ben Saunders]

When I said Officer Rimmer I think I mean Give and Take.

[Hamish]

I think you meant Rescue My Pants.

[Ben Saunders]

Your pants are gone mate move on

[Hamish]

If I was going for a gimmicky Red Dwarf theme night I would still put on Gunmen though.

[bloodteller]

Gundergarments of the Apocalypse

[flanl3]

That’s a nice selection. I’d replace Samsara with Officer Rimmer or something, though. Back to Reality is a no-brainer.

If I was making the selection, I’d probably go with Queeg/Fathers & Suns or The Beginning/Polymorph/Samsara or Give & Take/Back to Reality/Siliconia or Mechocracy. Seems strange to pick two from XI and one from XII rather than one each from X-XII.

[Stephen Abootman]

Just saw the G&T tweet that Timewave had been replaced by Mechocracy.
Picking one each from X, XII & XII would make more sense to me

[Ben Saunders]

I guess they want to show off XI and XII given that they’re their new products that they just spent a lot of time and money on, and X is (I don’t want to think about it) years old at this point

[Pete Part Three]

If they’ve cottoned onto the fact that Timewave is shite, they could at least replace Samsara with Give & Take, Twentica with M-Corp and Top Gear with Womem’s Bowls.

I’ll be watching The End, anyway. Because, y’know, that’s the episode the anniversary is for.

[GlenTokyo]

They should put The End on at precisely the same time and run it without ads if you’re just showing episodes.

[flanl3]

Well, somebody should watch in case there’s a surprise announcement so they can make fun of all the rest of us for missing it.

[clem]

I’ll be watching the first bit of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOjB3o4yow followed by The End.

[Dave]

I’m tempted to watch the original assembly of The End instead. Or maybe as well as. I could line up the Remastered version afterwards too.

[Dave]

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/features/history/life-during-dwarf-time/

[Pete Part Three]

Ah. Well done, Seb.

It’s not free beer and money, but I’ll take it.

[GlenTokyo]

Did we get owt then?

[Seb Patrick]

Two posts above, man.

[Ridley]

We got a WhatCulture interview, apparently.

[Seb Patrick]

Four posts above, man.

[Seb Patrick]

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Seb’s piece was fantastic and by far the best thing I read to do with the anniversary, and this isn’t to take away from it at all, but it’s so incredibly strange that we got nothing whatsoever in real terms.

[Dave]

With the listings in recent weeks for the big 1-8 Blu-Ray set, I thought for sure we would get an official announcement on that.

[Seb Patrick]

>it’s so incredibly strange that we got nothing whatsoever in real terms

The problem is that (unless you’re Doctor Who) it’s sometimes quite difficult to line things up for a specific date, particularly given how recent the RDXII cycle (and the focus on all of that) was. So there may still be Interesting Stuff to come, it’s just that we weren’t yet in a position to make a song and dance about it yesterday.

As was the case in 2008, I think the attitude is very much to treat the whole of 2018 as the anniversary year, and 15th Feb as the start of it, not the be all and end all. As we wrote on the site today: “You’d better stay tuned for the rest of 2018, because we promise you it’s not over yet.”

[Flap Jack]

Thanks for the elaboration, Seb! I personally wasn’t expecting any big official announcements yesterday, so your feature on TOS was a cool surprise, but I guess I can see why people would.

But hey, yesterday was only the 30th anniversary of The End. There are still 11 more Red Dwarf episodes which have their 30th anniversary this year! Bonus PR Points on offer for making a major announcement on one of those anniversaries; x5 multiplier if the announcement relates to the specific episode.

Though really, I’m just chuffed to be in an era where we can reasonably expect a new series of Red Dwarf to be announced. I remember feeling crushed when I first reached the end of my Just The Shows, Vol. 2 DVD set, and realised that “The End? The Smeg It Is.” was genuinely the end of the whole show, and that this was several years ago, so there seemed like no chance it would come back. What a difference a decade makes!

So what do you think the next announcement will be, folks? I reckon they’ll do Series IV-XII Remastered, with new CGI skutters and star fields and that.

[Dave]

They’re remaking Series I-VIII in their entirety with the current cast to replace the BBC versions on Dave.

[GlenTokyo]

‘Give Me My Ball Back’ Live at Wembley. Norman Lovett and Dona DiStefano are joined by an all star cast to recount one of the greatest stories ever told at the home of Football, Wembley Stadium

[flanl3]

Seb,

but this is still the anniversary year (of not one, but two series in fact!)

Surely that number should be three?

[Flap Jack]

Seb,

> but this is still the anniversary year (of not one, but two series in fact!)

Surely that number should be three?

Not three, twelve.

[Ridley]

Don’t you see? The true anniversary was in you all along!

[Seb Patrick]

>Surely that number should be three?

Nope, you’ve lost me.

[flanl3]

I, II, and VI at 30, 30, and 25, respectively? Am I not thinking straight?

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Clarification welcomed. I’m a bit more ‘up’ about the anniversary now.

[Pete Part Three]

It’s also the 20th anniversary of the 10th Annivesary and the 10th Annivesary of the 20th Anniversary.

Strange how they all coinicided.

[Hamish]

It is also somebody’s wedding anniversary, somewhere.

[Dave]

It’s the anniversary of I and II because they both came out in the same year.

[flanl3]

They’re still different series. As is VI.

[Dave]

Yes, but because they came out in the same year, it is the 30th anniversary year of both series this year.

[Seb Patrick]

>I, II, and VI at 30, 30, and 25, respectively? Am I not thinking straight?

Well yeah, but if you’re picking different numbers out of the air then every year is literally the [something] anniversary year of every series.

But this year is the thirtieth anniversary of both series I and II, is what I meant.

[flanl3]

Ah, got it.

Surely there’ll be something for VI turning 25, though? It doesn’t seem like pulling a random number out of the air, it’s just sort of a five-year which would make sense to celebrate?

[GlenTokyo]

I wouldn’t imagine there would be. It’d be like celebrating the 25th anniversary of your 5th wedding anniversary, you don’t. You celebrate the anniversary or being wed, or in Red Dwarf’s case anniversary of first airing.

[flanl3]

Then why would you celebrate anything for Series II’s 30th? Surely that’s like celebrating the 30th anniversary of your one-halfth wedding anniversary?

[GlenTokyo]

Personally I wouldn’t. For me there should have been stuff on the 15th, I don’t really go in for anniversary years, I appreciate that wasn’t possible though.

Two series that aired the same year is a lot different to just randomly celebrating VI though, if you celebrate that why not the others?

[flanl3]

Fives are regularly celebrated anniversaries, at least the way I see it. It’s not randomly selected, it’s something actually worthy of celebration. When the Silver Survey was done in 2013 nobody was sitting there going ‘well 25 is a bit of a weird one to celebrate, isn’t it?’

[Dave]

I don’t think it’s the idea of a 25th anniversary celebration that’s in question, it’s the idea of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the sixth series of something.

It’s not like Doctor Who is doing regular 50th anniversary celebrations of all the series that aired after the first one, is it? You celebrate the anniversary of the start of something, not the middle of it.

[GlenTokyo]

What Dave said.

[flanl3]

The anniversary of VII was very mildly celebrated last year. That’s the sort of thing I’m thinking about. Not throwing a massive party.

[Ben Saunders]

Well they did animate Power of the Daleks for the 50th anniversary of that particular serial, but that’s just me being pedantic x

[International Debris]

Whilst the 25th anniversary of, say, Gunmen of the Apocalypse, would probably be something mentioned were it any other year, it’s the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of the show, and that year encompasses 12 episodes, so the VI anniversary just doesn’t seem important in comparison.

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