Stephen Abootman

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In regard to the original post, I see that Dave is on Freesat now, opening up XII to even more people who perhaps haven’t seen Dwarf for a while so that’s a bonus.

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I find that quite a lot of casual fans are aware of Back to Earth but nothing beyond that. The conversation usually goes along the lines of “there’s a new series? I watched that special they did a few years back, didn’t like it”.

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We badly need some Series XII news.

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The BBC are pleased to announced that the long lost Red Dwarf episode ‘Me²’ has been recovered from a TV station in Nigeria. A spokesman said, “we know fans will be eager to see the famous scene where Lister goes to delete one of the Rimmers but accidentally turns him into Patrick Troughton”.

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Any news on Krysis yet? Being stuffed full of clochey goodness with any luck.

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Reminds me of this gem from Metro: “Charles’ lazy oaf of an alter-ego Dave Lister would shout out ‘Awooga!’ during moments of peril, or when a siren was going off”

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Doctor Who series 10: the hidden roots of its graphic design

A bit more on the typeface etc.

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Your place or mine?

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If there’s a JMC Officer’s guide to lint brushes, could there be one for cloches too?

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Gilbert, will you escort Mr. Runner to the door?

Completed this, another mighty fine addition. Was OK with the grate but took about 5 minutes after that to work out that I couldn’t go through the door at the end and had to revisit previous areas, though that might just be me being a bit thick.

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If u r Kryten am I still me? If not, who’s eating this chicken?

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Out golfing

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CAT: Five Gmail invites?
RIMMER: Six Gmail invites!
CAT: Oooowwww!

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Prediction 2: Some of Red Dwarf’s greatest moments will be recreated live by the cast.

What will actually happen: Some of Red Dwarf’s greatest moments will be recreated live by Davina McCall, John Bishop, David Walliams and Miranda Hart.

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What I’d like to see that is vaguely feasible: Various cast members from Star Wars end up on Red Dwarf

What will probably happen: A live twitter Q&A with Talkie Toaster where most of the answers are Breadxit & Donald Crumpet

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Bit of a dry, stats driven article but sounds like UKTV did well in 2016:

Driven By Originals Push, UKTV On Track To Break Ratings & SOCI Records For EOY 2016

“Some of the shows driving Dave’s success include Red Dwarf XI (2.4 million Total Consumption)”

I’m guessing that ‘total consumption’ is everyone who watched via the various methods available or something similar?

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I found among work colleagues, family and friends (all casual viewers) that everyone really liked it. My mate who went to a couple of the XII recordings with me thought that it was clearly the best of XI so definitely some vastly different viewpoints around.

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Due to no popular demand, I’m going to finish this off:

KRYSIS

cultbox.co.uk 3/5
mymbuzz.com 4.5/5
thepalaceofwisdom.co.uk 8/10
epicstream.com 9/10
cultfix.co.uk 8/10
scifibulletin.com 7/10

Average (out of 10): 7.83

CAN OF WORMS:

cultbox.co.uk 3/5
mymbuzz.com 3.5/5
thepalaceofwisdom.co.uk 9/10
epicstream.com 9/10
cultfix.co.uk 9/10
scifibulletin.com 7/10

Average (out of 10): 7.83

Therefore, the final table:

1/ Give and Take: 8.58
2/ Officer Rimmer: 8
3/ Can of Worms 7.83
4/ Krysis: 7.83
5/ Twentica: 7.67
6/ Samsara: 7.25

Now that is scientific fact. There’s no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.

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‘Member when you said you were “really sorry for posting these topics?”
Ooh, I ‘member.

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“they feel slightly off for RD episode titles”

I felt XIs were slightly off when they came out but these I’m a lot happier with, sound great to me.

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Has Siliconia got anything to do with being stuck opposite Brigitte Nielsen in a packed lift?

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Agree with Darrell tbh, trying to keep it quiet for the best part of a year seems a bit daft. Besides, Doug could always decide to change things in that time.

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“The steelbook inadvertently has the titles and running order for Series XII listed on it, instead of Series XI’s”

Not enough Picard faceplam memes on the internet to cover this. Have they at least managed to avoid putting the episodes on there as well?

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Why is Chris apparently desperate to conceal his arms under the table? And I want a non wanking explanation please.

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There was a quote leading up to XI by Chris that I really liked: “From my own point of view, Rimmer in many ways has been building up to this because even as a 27 year old he behaved like a 57 year old. He’s starting to fit his own skin.”

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I do now: https://twitter.com/DougRDNaylor/status/789457620600033280

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Doug said a couple of weeks ago “No official date yet but it’s likely to be a year from now. :(”

I think the best that we can expect is an early September start for maximum Smegtember based promotion.

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They should recast Holly and have one of One Direction play him to give a boost to the viewing figures.

Oh, and you should be able to win prizes by watching.

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Impossible, think how wobbly the sets would be!

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Jesus (both my reaction to this thread and answer)

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OFFICER RIMMER leaps into 2nd place overall in the average score rankings:

cultbox.co.uk 4/5
mymbuzz.com 4/5
thepalaceofwisdom.co.uk 9/10
epicstream.com 9/10
cultfix.co.uk 8/10
scifibulletin.com 6/10
Points: 40/50 (48/60)
Average (out of 10): 8.0

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Just in case anyone missed the G&T retweet of this:

Howard Goodall ‏@Howard_Goodall 5 hours ago
I am honoured & delighted my vo-coded message from the past has been cracked!????????????

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I think that it prefers to go by ‘white little person’ these days.

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“The interview also reveals that Barrie thought the sixth series was weaker than previous – which is broadly in line with current fan opinion.”

The Silver Survey results:

3. Gunmen
10. Legion
12. Out of Time
21. Psirens

Top 10 series by average points
1. Series V – 10162.5
2. Series II – 9622.83
3. Series III – 9567.33
4. Series VI – 9214.33

Superb series.

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Heh, that was supposed to be a link but I done goofed.

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Pretty good figures across the week of airing, 1.38m for Twentica & 1.34m for Samsara.

BARB

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“Barrie feels one of the key ingredients missing in the last two series of Red Dwarf is the presence of Ed Bye, the directorial glue that held the programme together for its first four seasons.”

Ed Bye, everyone.

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“Madonna, will make cameo appearances in the film”

Performing a set at Parrot’s perhaps? Lucky Starbug, True Blue Midget, Lister Bonita…..

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“Madonna, will make cameo appearances in the film”

Performing a set at Parrot’s perhaps? Lucky Starbug, True Blue Midget, Lister Bonita…..

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Dr Lucas McLaren’s, harvested via some long, long screws that went deep, deep inside him. Should make a cracking deleted scene.

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In that universe, doing a version of Bodysnatcher as a one off would surely have been the ideal choice.

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With the Duke of Manchester financing it, nothing can possibly go wrong.

But if it does, the reboot with Hugh Grant as Lister & Emma Thompson as Kochanski should be great.

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Comments in The Express about it again http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/715876/Red-Dwarf-Doug-Naylor-Chris-Barrie-Craig-Charles-Robert-Llewellyn-Danny-John-Jules

“In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, the 60-year-old confirmed all of the main cast were on board but it would be matter of sitting down and thrashing out the details together.

“In terms of a live show tour, we haven’t sat down properly and spoken about it but all the boys want to do a live tour and it will be great,” he said.

The star from Manchester went on to say that the audience would probably want “an hour-and-a-half or two hours with a story”, which would require planning and writing on his part.

“So it wouldn’t just be like Python at the O2 doing sketches and a lot of dances and songs,” he said.

Doug continued: “So it would have to be like a movie on stage with special effects and whether that then becomes incredibly expensive and therefore undoable, we don’t know until we’ve investigated it more.””

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Why is he so pleased to find the nocturnal boxing gloves in his room in Legion? A nicer alternative to hitting himself in the crotch with a hammer like in VIII?

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“he gets them off pretty easily, doesn’t he?”

All good practice for hooking up with Yvonne McGruder

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Dave: “It’s available on @UKTVPlay tomorrow. ONE MORE SLEEP. #RedDwarfXI”

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I was reading that Go 8-Bit was the single most-watched show on Dave in the week it aired with 600k viewers (including +1). So with that in mind, what’s going to be seen as a reasonable figure for XI, 1m? Trojan got about 1.5m overnights if I remember but obviously a bunch of people hadn’t been watching that online for a whole week before.

Alternatively, are TV ratings pretty much irrelevant these days due to the changes in viewing habits and (from the money men’s perspective) are the on demand figures & DVD sales all that really matter for them to give the go ahead for series XIII?

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A similar article but with a few added details:

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/25720/red_dwarf_cast%3A_we_can_keep_making_more…

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http://www.irishexaminer.com//examviral/celeb-life/red-dwarf-heads-back-into-space-as-reunited-stars-hail-chemistry-on-set-417586.html

Article on the Q&A

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