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Might be wishful thinking but wonder if the prospect of more Dwarf has persuaded him to dial back on his usual favourite topic for these updates.

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I’m hoping Chris Barrie updates his website again soon for a bit of light relief.

In a shock turn of events, this has actually come true in a March update. Not a rant in sight plus: “The most popular question I am asked continues to be whether or not there will be another Red Dwarf series or special. Well, I can actually sound quite positive on this for a change, because on the 15th February, indeed to coincide with RD’s 35th Anniversary, I did hear that we may well be a step closer to making new shows. As ever, let’s keep those fingers crossed!”

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No idea where to put this so this’ll do. Boxer Tony Bellew recently commented as follows:

““Remember Red Dwarf? Remember H, the guy who had a ‘H’ on his forehead? Well David Haye had a pound sign, like ‘H’ had, to me. That’s how I looked at him.”

Any H fans in the forum?

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Kryten’s Kitchen Nightmares sounds like a rejected series X episode. Presumably would have featured Kerry Shale as Gordon rAImsey

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“Craig Charles would use the power of his acting to create a portal that would take the Coronation Street residents back to their world.”

He….he can do that?

“With a bit of acting magic, Craig Charles was able to create the portal”

OK, ‘a bit of acting magic’ doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

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A new article, ‘Dwarf on Film’

https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2023/02/dwarf-on-film/

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TMWRNJ and Red Dwarf share a birthday?

https://twitter.com/RealPaulPutner/status/1625963898020003862

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I saw him doing stand-up back when you could light up indoors. He was certainly the cigarette smoking man that night.

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Think we need someone to fire up the AI to write this episode

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What, and you don’t think the fact that he hasn’t gone near the show in 30 years is a bit telling?

How about 45 years? https://www.screendaily.com/news/castle-rock-john-cleese-camilla-cleese-to-revive-uk-comedy-classic-fawlty-towers/5178913.article 

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https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever
An AI generated Seinfeld on Twitch (have you seen this? Have you heard about this?)  Some info here https://www.polygon.com/23582937/ai-seinfeld-twitch-stream

Just need them to do this with Red Dwarf and we’ll be good for constant bewildering content that everyone can go ‘well, it’s still better than Pete Part II’ to until the end of time.

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38 seconds in: https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/1612829653055508483

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I wish this place had a ‘like’ button sometimes

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Update alert:

“The most popular question I am asked continues to be whether or not there will be another Red Dwarf series or special. Tediously, I’m afraid, the answer continues to be that I simply don’t know. But, as with almost everything these days, who knows what will happen in 2023…”

Now on to other matters…..

“Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you have all enjoyed Christmas and are highly excited about the joys and challenges that 2023 may bring.”

Good start, maybe 2023 is going to a whole new positive era for CB News. Let’s see what else he has to say:

“As far as the ‘big picture’ is concerned, the outgoing year has witnessed the wheels of rampant globalisation, the enslavement of humanity and insane wokery begin to turn ever more quickly and I shall be continuing to remind readers of this psychopathic management of decline as we go forward. The good thing is that more and more people appear to be waking up, although the rate at which this is happening needs to be higher if we are to arrest the relentless circling of the drain…”

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I’m inclined to agree with the above although this guy has tweeted about Chris’ website now with a few more hundred likes. Check his wiki to see who has defended his ‘free speech’ in the past.

https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1594375948929060872

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https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1593835654441570305

1.5k likes on this now and RTd by David Baddiel to his 850k+ followers so fair to say Chris’ rantings have reached a wider audience than just here. Quite surprised by just how many responses of “Yes! He’s telling it like it is!” there are tbh, even for Twitter.

Still, ‘CB News’ and ‘Quote me a Ukipper, I’ll be back for breakfast’ are puns I’ve enjoyed seeing.

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“it’s clear that he has, like all these people tell you, “done his
research” and subscribes a particular outlined theory, which is usually,
sadly, a gateway drug to other nonsense.”

I was going to mention that too, kind of funny that for self described ‘independent thinkers’ they all parrot the exact same lines as each other (straight from the bot farm usually) time and time again.

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Oh dear:

Away from the happy, positive world of Comic Cons, you may have
noticed that, as far as the ‘national’ picture is concerned, the cost of
living continues to soar while our alleged parliamentarians (they are
not leaders, but merely administrators working to a destructive global
agenda) are as usual hellbent on looking after themselves instead of the
suffering public. This situation looks set to continue as the
globalists now have their man in place, a person utterly unsuited to the
role of doing his best for the people of Britain, but a person utterly
and totally suited to pushing on with the new world order’s so called
‘great reset’ programme to enslave humanity under technocratic control.
Look, I know many of you must be thinking ‘Blimey, CB has lost it big
time!’, but believe me, once you can see it, you can’t unsee it! All
rather worrying frankly….

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He was there to talk about the baseballist psychopaths.

I guess it’s not impossible he could have appeared on a Channel 5 show to promote them showing Massive Machines/Engines, though no idea if they aired on there around that time. Whether he’d be on a baseball show to do so is rather more of a stretch.

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“I am not sure whether the new incumbent could even cut it as a deputy leisure centre manager, never mind allegedly run the country”

Well, he was right about that bit at least.

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“Annett-Kochanski got back to her original dimension somehow.”

Eventually she was rescued by, oh, let’s say…Moe

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Another edit:

“Meanwhile the destructive agenda continues and we now know who
the British state/main stream media has put in place to take over from
the outgoing self serving con artist. I am not sure whether the new
incumbent could even cut it as a deputy leisure centre manager, never
mind allegedly run the country. Of course the actual role is to simply
continue to take the instructions laid down by the globalist psychopaths
to carry on with the relentless downward spiral towards total
technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no reason to feel
down!”

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Another edit. Naturally the ‘main stream media’ would get a mention at some point.

August 2022

Hello Everyone…

It was great to see those who came to recent events, most of which
were well organised and a pleasure to attend. There remain some
outstanding issues with the Southampton Comic Con and I am still hoping
that these will be resolved sometime soon.

Meanwhile the destructive agenda continues and the British state/main
stream media is playing its part by updating us on the two pitiful and
entirely unsuitable candidates vying to take over from the outgoing self
serving con artist. Whoever ‘wins’ the contest will of course simply
continue to take the instructions laid down by the globalist psychopaths
to carry on with the relentless downward spiral towards total
technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no reason to feel
down!

We must hold our heads high, straighten our backs and gather our
tools. We must climb up into the cab, fire up the slumbering beast
(petrol or diesel of course!) and crack on. Come what may, we must keep
our businesses afloat, stay as naturally healthy as possible and pursue
enjoyable stress relieving pastimes. Above all, we must stay positive!

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Looks like it’s been amended slightly again:

“Speaking of agendas we are now a few months into the ‘new’
agenda and Britain stumbles on with its incompetent (by design)
leadership. There is a pitiful list of candidates vying to take over
from the outgoing self serving con artist, but whoever ‘wins’ the
contest will simply continue to take the instructions laid down by the
globalist psychopaths to carry on with the relentless downward spiral
towards total technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no
reason to feel down!

We must hold our heads high, straighten our backs and gather our
tools. We must climb up into the cab, fire up the slumbering beast and
crack on. Come what may, we must keep our businesses afloat, stay as
naturally healthy as possible and pursue enjoyable stress relieving
pastimes. Above all, we must stay positive!”

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“and, after days of contemplation, agrees to go on a date.”
We’re gonna need a montage.

“They spend the next few weeks getting to know each other”
And another.

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Big fan of the Marlon Brando episode, shocking revelation. 

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I did a LOL at that

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edit: Should that last one be ”I still think we’ll come up with something pretty special?” Just used what came up, always possible I’m misremembering the line.

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Step up to blue alert, Chris is no longer wishing everyone a happy new year 2021 and has updated his page. Maybe he can have a go at TOS next?

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In keeping with the theme, Chris Barrie’s website hasn’t been updated since he wished everyone a happy new year. For 2021.

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“Please note that regretfully we cannot currently accept unsolicited scripts for consideration.”

What if they haven’t updated that part of the site in a while but since changed their minds and the only reason Dwarf isn’t being made right now is the lack of unsolicited scripts?

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Been playing The Witcher 3 recently and got early series Lister/Rimmer vibes from 2 minor characters:

“Order 76-CW-X is clear, auction’s only open to folk with invitations, writ out in their names, plain and simple”
“Order 76-CW-X also held that Lance Corporal Vaclav stick a broomstick up his arse”
“Kleiner! Need I remind you of the penalty for insulting a superior!”

 

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Wiki says in 1997 he was in a schools education series called “English Express Language Skills”. Videos aren’t there but:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036k14r The description for this is “A visit to a haunted house in search of words to express fear.”

And one here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077vld “Craig Charles explores how choosing and using words helps conjure up images in people’s minds.”. Clip on there of Craig reading a poem.

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Once again using this thread for snippets of info. Craig interviewed on ‘White Wine Question Time, with Kate Thornton’ said:

“We brought out the feature ‘the Promised Land’ and we were supposed to have made another two features by now, or at least another one and going on to do a third but obviously Covid put pay to all that so hopefully we’ll get to doing it sometime next year I suppose”.

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“He picks up the signal on an old Nokia I think”

Ah, so he moved on from the problems of the battery life of the Ericsson, good.

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From July:

“We put a lot of hard work into ‘The Promised Land’ so it is most satisfying to hear that it has generally been well received.

Back in April I enjoyed linking up with Paul Jackson, Rob Grant and Ed Bye for a Red Dwarf webinar and subsequently contributed to two ‘Lockdown Theatre’ productions. All good fun and an excellent way to break up the routine of life under ‘lockdown’.

As for TV projects, I simply do not know at this stage. I hear that the filming of some drama and comedy is going ahead and I also hear that more Red Dwarf product may be in the offing, but we shall just have to wait and see!”

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