DwarfCast 152 – Robot Wars – Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 28th April 2022, 12:10 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes If you're reading this then there's a decent chance that at some point in your childhood or early adulthood you sat down on a Friday night and enjoyed the feast of mechanical violence that was Robot Wars. For older Millennials and young Gen Xers watching this show went hand in hand with being a Red Dwarf fan, not least because the host was, from series 2 onwards, Craig Charles himself. And it's for that reason Robot Wars qualifies for our series of 'Dwarf-adjacent' commentaries as we seize with both hands the opportunity to talk at length about a show very dear to our hearts for... quite a long time. Read more →
Roboteers, stand by… News Posted by Ian Symes on 13th January 2016, 13:05 If you were a teenager in the UK in the late 90s/early 00s, rejoice. Your favourite early evening BBC Two show is coming back. Robot Wars has been recommissioned for a brand new series of six hour-long episodes. It’ll be produced by Mentorn Scotland, and will apparently be bigger and better than ever before. There’s no word yet on who’ll be presenting. We’re obviously hoping it’s Craig Charles, partly to maintain the Red Dwarf connection, but mostly because he was brilliant at it. But he’s a very busy man, and I guess it would depend on how long it would take to film, and when. The press release seems to be saying all the right things, especially regarding the focus on the science, and the way that the show is driven by the innovation of the roboteers. The structure of the competition will be “new”, but we’re promised that it will involve more robots and more battles than the original. Basically, this could be very very good indeed. Imagine the original show, how exciting and compelling it was, but in HD, and with the cameras right up close. Yes please. It wasn’t the end, it was merely a pause. For this is the return, *kisses fingers*, of Robot Wars.
High & Low: The Cast’s Other Shows Features Posted by Ian Symes on 5th March 2014, 20:41 Hello and welcome to High & Low, our brand new monthly feature looking at the very best and very worst offerings from the wider world of Red Dwarf. Each month, we'll be taking a subject and picking out the top ten best examples of whatever that category is. It's a bit like Buzzfeed, but with lots of words instead of animated gifs taken from Youtube videos. But that's not all. Because this is G&T, we'll also be pouring scorn all over the bottom five shit bits from each particular field. So, what subject will be kicking off this glorious brand spanking new feature? We present the Top 10 and Bottom 5... Cast Members' Other Shows. Read more →
