Things found through Red Dwarf Google Alerts…

[Jo]

Thought I should start a thread for any little bits found in Google Alerts…

http://www.nerdles.com/2010/11/05/producer-confirms-new-red-dwarf-series/

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This is the best news I could have received today. I am absolutely crazy for Red Dwarf, hopefully both Rob Grant and Ed Naylor will write the new series as I feel that since Grant walked away, the show suffered. Still, any Red Dwarf is better than no Red Dwarf.

I find it difficult to be too hard on Marjii since most of the feedback on this false confirmation has been negative (I’m talking to you Digital Spy you massive pricks!) it’s nice to see someone getting excited… that said the RD geek in me just can’t let the major mistake slide! Ed Naylor… really?!

[Seb Patrick]

Also:

Photo courtesy of obsessedwithfilm.com

… I must have missed the day obsessedwithfilm.com bought the rights to the RD logo.

(but yes, it’s nice to see someone putting a positive spin on it!)

[ori-STUDFARM]

I tell you what I’m sick of finding on my Red Dwarf Google Alerts. I’m pig sick of hearing about the Red dwarf star Gliese 581 and it’s Earth like planet!!

[ori-STUDFARM]

I’ve just seen this post. The google alert claims that this person “hates Red Dwarf because it is no longer on the box….”. However, this doesn’t appear to be in the article now. Doesn’t look as if they know about the Easter specials from last year either!!

http://eveonline-aghostblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/red-dwarf.html

[Jo]

I tell you what I’m sick of finding on my Red Dwarf Google Alerts. I’m pig sick of hearing about the Red dwarf star Gliese 581 and it’s Earth like planet!!

Lol, yeah! It has given me an excellent scanning ability though.

I just remembered I used to get weekly updates about the Red Dwarf Posse who played 5-a-side (or maybe 6) but haven’t heard anything about them lately. I’ve checked the Futebol Conwy website and can’t find them in the league… aw :o(

The google alert claims that this person “hates Red Dwarf because it is no longer on the box….”.

Haha, yeah I saw that one too :oP

Also, this thread came up in my Google Alert today… :oS It’s like some kind of paradox. DON’T CROSS YOUR OWN TIMELINE!

[ori-STUDFARM]

This one has come through….Jane Killick (writer and broadcaster) has released a book called Stasis Leaked- An Unofficial Behind The scenes Guide To The First Series Of Red Dwarf

“Jane Killick was one of the major writers (if not the major writer) to cover the fantastic television comedy, Red Dwarf during its heyday. She’s gone back to some of her magazine articles, revised them and written an introduction for a new volume looking behind the scenes of the first series.”

http://www.ellybooks.co.uk/index.html

[Jo]

I found the same thing through Twitter, she posted a link to Audio Boo of her talking about RD on the radio: http://audioboo.fm/boos/216492-jane-killick-interviewed-about-red-dwarf

[Ian Symes]

Do you two want to run G&T? You’re better than us.

[Jo]

:oP

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101113025533AAwnex0

Open Question:

What is the accent of the guy in Red Dwarf?
The one who says smeg.

(haha! Smeg!)

Answers:

Sienna
The darker guy? I think it’s Welsh.

[Jo]

http://adosoftrd.com/2010/11/this-is-a-better-look-at-the-new-dell-studio-17/

It’s just a video of some guy filming his laptop from various angles as far as I can tell but it just amused me that he’s watching ‘Out of Time’ in the background :oP

[Jo]

http://totalscifionline.com/features/5769-the-100-greatest-sci-fi-fantasy-tv-shows

Red Dwarf came in at 29 and Ghostwatch at 76 in this 100 greatest sci-fi/fantasy TV shows list.

Go on, have a look , you know you want to disagree with it… Babylon 5 came in at number 10 *ducks for cover*

[hummingbird]

> Babylon 5 came in at number 10 *ducks for cover*

I’m more disturbed by BSG at #7.

[Jo]

I’ve never seen BSG so can’t judge either way.

[Danodin]

Fringe being as low as #94 negates the whole list. It pisses all over 80% of the whole 100, i.e. should be top 20…

BSG IS one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy shows of all-time. It would be top 5 in my own personal list, certainly above the massively overrated Buffy (saying that, I would probably still place it #9 or #10).

I’d never put TOS up there at #2 either, though you can’t argue with its placing in this list, there’s no doubt it’s one of the most important shows ever made. TNG all the way for me (even if at least half the episodes now make me want to end my own life rather than carrying on watching…..lol)

[Ian Symes]

Babylon 5’s a big pile of shit!

[Seb Patrick]

Babylon 5’s a big pile of… oh.

[ChrisM]

Where did I put that DOUBLE BARREL shotgun…
;)

[Ben Paddon]

Babylon 5 was a show with an ambition that wasn’t matched by the production values or the cast. On numerous occasions it reached beyond its grasp, and while this occasionally produced brilliant television it wasn’t consistent enough to merit the acclaim and praise that so many have bestowed upon it.

In short, Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit.

[ChrisM]

Darnit. Run out of barrels.

Joking aside, when it started* I didn’t like it much at all. It was a bit too soap operish for me.

Catching series later on I got quite into it though. There were some very intriguing story arcs and characters who straggle the sides of good and evil. (The aliens were generally more interesting characters than the main human characters.) Actually going back and giving series one a proper chance, I liked that too.

I still find the acting somewhat cheesy in places, as well as the captain’s speechifiying. Amusingly I think they were aware of this and actually made fun of it in one of the episodes, but overall it was pretty good. I generally prefer it to Star Trek, although I like other aspects of that.

*Yes I’m that old.

[ori-STUDFARM]

Never seen it……though I did do some voicing for a Babylon 5 fans made audiodrama….

[hummingbird]

> http://totalscifionline.com/features/5769-the-100-greatest-sci-fi-fantasy-tv-shows

I’ve just been watching the first two stories of Sapphire and Steel on youtube. I loved this show as a kid. You never really expect it to be as good as it was back then, but this is great stuff. I can’t believe that it has been all but forgotten.
The pace is as you’d expect for the time, but it really lends itself to the creepy atmosphere. It is incredibly cheap looking, but the writing and the performances are excellent, what I’ve seen so far would easily compare with the best of Who. But it’s far darker than Who. Lovely stuff.
The second story was fantastic. Worth buying.

[hummingbird]

duplicate post

[Plastic Percy]

Big Finish Productions do a range of ‘Sapphire & Steel’ audio adventures. They are set sometime after their last TV adventure and Sapphire and Steel have been ‘reborn’ into new incarnations, in order to explain why they now look and sound like David Warner and Susannah Harker.

[ori-STUDFARM]

A Points Of View forum thread has turned up on the old Google Alerts. I am equally angered and bemused by this…. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbpointsofview/NF1951566?thread=6470174&post=103728680

[Jo]

I give you… a really odd quiz type thing: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Serlingist/red_dwarf

[Jo]

I retract my earlier attitude – it’s actually really good!

I didn’t do well though… I blame tiredness. 24/50

[Ian Symes]

38. HA.

[Fluffy Wok]

Damnit, 28

[Jonathan Capps]

Fucked that up royally.

[John Hoare]

26. Balls.

[redhead85]

Ouch. 22. :-(

[Danny Stephenson]

25, poo.

Hmm, these are fun though, We should make some of these!

[Seb Patrick]

36. Thought I’d had the highest score from beating Andrew, but Ian is a GIT.

[Fluffy Wok]

I would have had 29 but I can’t spell “Bartakovski”

[redhead85]

> I would have had 29 but I can’t spell “Bartakovski”

Ditto! ^__^

[redhead85]

Free popcorn in this double post

[hummingbird]

One has to wonder how that was compiled. Did some sad bastard just stay up all night with the transcripts to count the words?

[Dave]

30

Did anyone get The Dispensers?

[Danny Stephenson]

Did some sad bastard just stay up all night with the transcripts to count the words?

Ahem. http://www.ganymede.tv/indepth/the-smeg-list
http://www.ganymede.tv/indepth/insult-list

If he didn’t do it. One of us would have :)

[ori-STUDFARM]

25….no surprise with my memory. I did get dispensers though…before I got Talkie :?

It took me over 3 minutes to realise that you didn’t have to do them in order!!

[Danny Stephenson]

hehe, those quizzes are seriously fun, though. I found a good one that’s all piano intros and you had to guess the song.

Gonna lose a lot of time on that website methinks.

[redhead85]

I got the dispensers but not talkie toaster! D’oh!

[Danodin]

31!!!!

I can’t believe I didn’t put Arlene Rimmer and Deb Lister, especially after I’d put the Dog (*slaps head*) and I was just typing Toaster when it ended!! Other ones I didn’t get, Cat priest, Justice computer, Jake Bullet (*sigh*), William and Sebastien Doyle (*double sigh*), Platini, McClaren, etc.

Ones I’m most pleased I got – Elvis (lol), Katerina (for her surname lol), Hudzen 10, Able. Also, who would have thought Confidence was 9th??

[ori-STUDFARM]

I can’t figure out how I got Duane Dibbley and both Sebastian and William, but missed Jake Bullet!!

[Jo]

I also got the dispensers but missed talkie! Annoyingly I got tons of extra ones but bizarrely had problems remembering really obvious people like Ackerman and Nirvanah Crane, I got total brain freeze on their names! I didn’t even think about trying BtE characters *facepalm*

That is a good website though, Ian and I lost track of time on there the other night and I ended up heading to bed at 4am when I needed to be up for 7.30am… oops.

[Danny Stephenson]

The “words” ending in ‘que’ is pretty good, i didn’t know I knew so many words that ended in ‘que’…

[Tarka Dal]

29.

[ori-STUDFARM]

smartarse!

[Danny Stephenson]

Expect a lot of these types of quizzes in the near future. i love these types of ones!!

http://www.sporcle.com/games/backwards_songs.php

[Ridley]

33

and kicking myself for forgetting Duane Dibbley while my Lucas McClarens weren’t being accepted.

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