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An update, with huge news for fans of a franchise very popular in 1993!

That’s right, Simon the Sorcerer. 

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Since I’m using this thread as a default ‘Craig interviews people who were in Red Dwarf’ one, Timothy Spall is having a chat with him right now so they had some discussion about his appearance in Back To Reality at the start.

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Well he got 2 of the tags right. Anyway, good for Naylor Jr.

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Could go either way if they were out at Pizza Hut for dinner (7.31pm to 7.43pm prime time for this) and nipped into a toilet cubicle for 2 minutes.

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I’m not counting on a special announcement later and live Dwarfcast to discuss it this year, but as long as Rob & Doug haven’t decided to launch legal action against each other again out of boredom, that’s something.

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This is from a few months back when this show was ordered but some interesting comments on there extracted from Ade’s book about touring, performing & writing with Rik. Be interesting to see if they touch on this side of things or if it’s just a fond look back. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/7540/bottom-exposed-documentary/

“Further issues lay ahead on the tour itself, when Edmondson perceived Mayall thinking that the crowd were laughing, not because his character Richie is funny, but because he “is a comic god”. So he began to “cut huge sections of carefully written jokes” and started playing up to his “sex god” status on stage.

“He starts being more Rik than Richie,” Edmondson writes. “Unfortunately, Rik the comic god isn’t quite as funny as the character. The character is humble, nervous, insecure, scared and desperate. Rik isn’t.

“It’s hard to explain the difference between a good laugh and a diminishing laugh. The audience will not be aware of it, but all comedians will occasionally come off stage saying: ‘What a shit audience.’ But once you start thinking the audience are shit every night, you’re in trouble.

“There’s always a point a few weeks into every tour when he’ll say: ‘None of the stuff I have is funny, let’s cut all my lines.’ And I’ll try to point out that if he stayed in character the laughs might come back.””

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Dwarfcast 200 will be a special look back at ActualKryten tweets I reckon.

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May I introduce you to the Idea for an Episode thread?

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Probably just making room for a new anniversary relevant update next month

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An update today, he’s removed the paragraph about being a step closer to making new Red Dwarf and keeping those fingers crossed (although that was from nearly a year ago to be fair)

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It’s marmalade day, it’s marmalade day, it’s m-m-m-m-m-m-marmalade day

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Think this was posted yesterday:

Nothing going on in January, therefore going to assume Red Dwarf filming is scheduled for then and they just forgot to mention it to anyone.

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Why, what is Ted Bakewell’s avatar?

Just click HERE to find out

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I give this branding two years max, so whether it will actually impact Red Dwarf is debatable.

Never know, might have Rob Dwarf coming out of our buttskis and Doug Dwarf coming out of our U-bends.

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Tum-Tied by ChatGPT:

It’s a smegging disaster, Rimmer’s feeling low,

Ate something dodgy, at least that’s what we know.

Comic Con awaits, a chance to shine so bright,

But his stomach’s in rebellion, it’s a Tum Tied night.

Oh, Tum Tied, Rimmer sighs, dreams of Comic Con demise,

His plans unravel, stomach ties, oh my, oh my.

In a parallel universe, he’d be the best,

But in this one, poor Rimmer’s feeling Tum Tied, stressed.

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Three million years ago it was a tummy bug but since then it’s bred and mutated and now we don’t know what it is.

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In the first 2 minutes of David Fincher’s new film ‘The Killer’ (so non spoilery):

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Red Dwarf: Titan, via ChatGPT.

Episode 1: “Titan’s Tango”

Synopsis: In the grim streets of downtown Xanadu, young Rimmer and Lister cross paths with a mysterious cybernetic gang, the Neon Scorpions, while searching for a rumored artifact that could change their lives forever.

Episode 2: “Pirates of the Methane Seas”

Synopsis: The duo’s quest for riches takes them to the methane seas of Titan, where they confront ruthless space pirates led by the enigmatic Captain Razorback, all while trying to avoid the clutches of a vengeful, malfunctioning droid.

Episode 3: “Monkey Business”

Synopsis: Rimmer and Lister become embroiled in an underground fight club where martial arts gorillas rule the ring, and secrets about their past are revealed. They must fight to survive and escape this brutal world.

Episode 4: “Symbiotic Shadows”

Synopsis: A parasitic spore outbreak on Titan threatens the entire population, and Rimmer and Lister must join forces with a rogue scientist to find a cure. But the real challenge is trusting each other in a world where no one can be trusted.

Episode 5: “Silicon Reckoning”

Synopsis: A sinister AI known as M.E.G.A. (Malevolent Entity in Galactic Algorithms) rises to power, and it’s up to Rimmer and Lister to outsmart this digital nemesis before it takes control of Titan’s vital infrastructure and plunges the moon into chaos.

Episode 6: “Street Food Showdown”

Synopsis: A new street food sensation takes Xanadu by storm, but this delicacy has a dark secret – it’s alive and fighting back! Rimmer and Lister must uncover the truth behind this culinary craze before it devours the entire city.

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RIP

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I’m not sure I’ve ever felt the need for a 3 minute, full band version of Little Fishy but at least it beats what he was talking about last week.

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“Just use our easy to remember new handle – W double W dot twitter dot C O M forward slash Every T H – number 1 – N G – Elec. Visit now!”

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I think the original tweet was a #NewProfilePic with the Palestinian flag since I can’t see that anymore. 

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If he’d used ‘Drew’ as a first name instead, everyone could have enjoyed that

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But I looked up the video and was shocked – shocked, I tell you! – to discover that it at no point talks about Danny having to get his leg amputated and also acquiring somebody else’s face and body. 

A cast member losing a limb is really the sort of story G&T should be leaping on now that @reddwarfHQ isn’t able to cover it. If they don’t want to go down the gangrene headline route, “I’ve lost your shoe too” would suffice.

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Don’t know where to put this so this’ll do:

Hope he didn’t have gangrene.

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Important update, please read:

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One thing he said that I hadn’t really thought about before: “I think they [UKTV, presumably] kind of like to leave it a few years. So it’s then, oh, it is back.”

Hard to say how things would have gone without Covid but when you see the amount of publicity “Red Dwarf is back on the iplayer” or “Red Dwarf is back on the BBC for the first time in 15 years” gets, I guess there’s unfortunately a logic to that approach as opposed to “the last Red Dwarf was a success so let’s get a few more out ASAP to less fanfare”.

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Doug has retweeted this interview he did: https://x.com/ImaginWorldsPod/status/1702064206579921373 

There is a transcript on the page which contains the following:

So you got something else come. I mean, it’s coming back, right?

DOUG: Well, it’s looking awfully like it’s coming back. It’s not signed and sealed yet, but
there are certainly very encouraging noises. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully

As a miniseries a movie?

DOUG: They haven’t said, uh, last time, I mean, to be fair, they did want two new
specials and then we got tripped up by a couple of things, one of which was Covid. So
whether they’ll want something different, I don’t know. And also the other thing I did was I wrote a, uh, I’ve written rather, uh, a TV film for, uh, the Red Dwarf cast being fictitious
versions of themselves. And they’re, they’re desperate to do that.

Wait, what do, what do you mean fictitious versions of themselves?

DOUG: Well, so in other words, it’s Craig Charles playing Craig Charles, a fictitious
version of Craig Charles. Chris Barrie is very, like, he’s a comic version of the real Chris
Barrie.

Like a Curb Your Enthusiasm version of behind the scenes Red Dwarf?

DOUG: Exactly. But it’s also science fiction, and they get wrapped up in a, a real world
is set on earth, um, in, in contemporary times. And, um, they’re desperate to do that. So
I’m trying to blackmail UK TV into forcing them to do that. Along with, um, more Red
Dwarf. I went to a convention a few weeks ago and the lines for, for the cues for
autographs for the cast, and even me were just overwhelming so many people with
kids. There was 11 old girl came with her dad, uh, and she said, can you answer a
question? I Yeah, sure, of course. And she goes, um, you remember that show where
Red Dwarf went faster than the speed of light? And I went, yeah. And she said, Rimmer
is uh, made of light, so how is it possible for anyone to see him? And she was 11
. And it was like, wow. And there was, I was really blown away how this a really
young audience there that have either been introduced it by the parents, well almost
certainly, probably, uh, who are loving it all, like, you know, the parents did. It’s quite
weird. 

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September update features a tribute to Mike Yarwood. 

No updated news regarding Red Dwarf, continuing the trend of nobody saying a word about the future of it since the Manchester comic con meeting.

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Good job he tagged himself in case people thought he meant another Doug Naylor.

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Well now he isn’t

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New spare head 3 content:

A few gripes and moans from Spare head 3. pic.twitter.com/SKjb5X2S5n

— Kryten (@ActualKryten) August 30, 2023

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Is now a good time to post this:

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