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Really? (To either of the above)

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Easy to forget, everything gets rather overshadowed by the famous cloche scene.

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Front page of BBC News:

Article:

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Is any of this new, or just the same old shit?
Maybe he’s just removed the Tony Slattery tribute so that the important stuff doesn’t get lost.

The same as the last one but with updated comic-con dates!

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Sold at auction last year https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/aa-starbug-for-sale

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Looking back, it’s 3 years today (or at least when it was first noticed) since the globalist psychopath update that launched a thousand memes.

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I forgot about this, clearly Doug Naylor’s fault for not putting out a reminder. DNA and Justice are scheduled for the next couple of Fridays anyway.

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Are you sure your sanity chip is fully screwed in, sir?

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Nice, no idea if there’s a grand plan to promote that the show’s on the iplayer once or twice a year or if it’s just a case of going ‘shall we bung a Red Dwarf series on to fill a gap in the schedule for a bit?’ but always a pleasant surprise to see.

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OSAMA BIN ISLAND
On 9-11 each year, nine to eleven pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Osama Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by between nine and eleven eels. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 911 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. On 11 September 2001, all that’s going to change.

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It’s being released on 9/11 for the very specific age range of 9-11? The Chris Barrie crowd will be all over that.

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House of the Dragon:

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On which note….  
https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/01/23/57361/can_noel_fielding’s_dick_turpin_comedy_be_salvaged

Was tempted to put this as a new topic entitled ‘Naylor scrambles to salvage expensive comedy special’ but think we have enough to worry about already.

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If only we could bring back the utopia of the previous 14 years, eh Chris.

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Doug Naylor has updated his Bluesky? https://bsky.app/profile/dougrdnaylor.bsky.social

 

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Guess my brain just glossed over it as an unfamiliar combination of words, as the line is thrown away somewhat.

Similar here too, was only when I was watching with subtitles on that I thought ‘eh?’
Think I must have previously  subconsciously written it off as ‘must be a Scouse thing’.

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Out of curiosity, did a search on quodb.com and based on that, British TV shows have at least tried to keep it going every few years:

“That’s gone for a Burton now. So, we’ll just have to busk it.” Tonight at Twelve (1929)

“The starboard engine had gone for a burton” The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

“#Prince Ludwig thought he’d won But now the Kraut’s gone for a burton” L’éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975)

“Well, I think I can safely say that my invitation to the hunt ball has gone for a Burton!” Only Fools and Horses….: A Touch of Glass (1982)

“lt means this program’s gone for a total burton.” Inspector Morse: Masonic Mysteries (1990)

“That’s Nicki’s tape. Ten episodes of ”Changing Rooms” gone for a burton.” Ideal: The Seduction (2005)

“Three years man and boy – all gone for a Burton.” Stella: Episode #2.3 (2013)

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Anyone ever hear that phrase used in everyday conversation? Or has it, well, gone for a Burton?

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His website ramblings are certainly a long way from this:

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What a way to come back after 6 months:

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On Tuesday he wanted to win the prize that he said looked like Robert Llewellyn as Kryten.

Also, during the credits they did an ‘all episodes of Red Dwarf are now available on the iplayer’ promo, proving that the BBC are interested in the audience that Danny John-Jules attracts.

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DJJ on the telly right now

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I also replaced all the sound effects and voice files with my own recordings of all sorts of random music and sounds.
What a cool kid I was.

I did that too, I think you could download various themed wav file packs to replace the sounds with of which my favourite was one using lines from one of the Bottom Live shows. Always enjoyed a worm’s energy depleting to Richie going ‘who’d be me?’ and the reply ‘in the film, Giant Haystacks’.

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tldw: He liked it

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I may not be fast, but I get there in the end etc.

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Polymorph added for the 17th. 

It’d be nice for someone involved with the show to promote III being repeated. Unless this was the BBC thought process:

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Always the chance they decide to have a 2 week break to show something else for no apparent reason and it works out that way anyway, think that happened in the I or II run last year. Could actually squeeze in IV as well before Christmas if there weren’t any breaks though.

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Nice, it was pretty much this time last year when they did I and then II I think (which might just be a coincidence but fingers crossed that III gets a full run.)

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He’s also doing a thing tomorrow with a decent line-up where he will presumably be discussing The Chicken Song

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No website update but ‘An Audience With Chris Barrie’ is taking place in Birmingham on Friday 1st November (so no Red Dwarf studio recordings that night I guess) .

“Following a screening of the much-loved Red Dwarf season six episode Rimmerworld, Chris will be talking about his fascinating career to festival programmer David Baldwin, taking us from Rimmer to Brittas and everything in between..“

https://macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/an-audience-with-chris-barrie

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Competition to win one of THREE COPIES here: 

https://www.film-news.co.uk/competition/3577/Win-Red-Dwarf-Discovering-the-TV-Series

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He mentioned it on his radio show once, said the character was called American Joe (I think) but he couldn’t do the accent so they just changed his name to Liverpool Joe instead.

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Taken a bit of a liberty with this one:

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To go back to the original topic, I can confirm that the co-creator of Red Dwarf was Rob Grant, not Ross Grant.

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Well, that’s the end of that then:

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https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/08/crypto-fascist/

Hoping that the library music sparks a new era of  “Lifestyles of the Disgustingly Rich and Famous” content.

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Slow news day? https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/red-dwarf-fans-spot-major-33424275

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Any picture from the Olympics opening ceremony:

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