Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Image Caption: Artist's impression of the five-Earth mass planet, Gliese 581 c, found in the habitable zone around the red dwarf Gliese 581, with the instrument HARPS on the ESO 3.6-m telescope. (c) ESO
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
I've been offline for a bit, admittedly, but I've been fighting off a cold. So it was in an attempt to build up some positive attitude that I put on Red Dwarf , series six, hoping for a laugh. It was then that I made an observation - the previous five series were relatively solid, with five really good stories and one rather OK story. Unfortunately, the fatigue begins with series six - with three plain...
Various and Sundry (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
New Red Dwarf Specials Confirmed | News | Red Dwarf As announced by Robert Llewellyn for Grant Naylor Productions this week at the UKTV seasonal press launch, the project is a short series of brand new specials to celebrate the 21st birthday of Red Dwarf. Doug Naylor will be masterminding the four half-hour instalments, and the regular [...]
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
I cannot be objective about this - I pretty much love series five of Red Dwarf . It's hard to even know when to begin - yes, it's beginning to be a little more like a sitcom, but the plots are dense - in fact, the plots do more in half an hour than in an entire episode of Star Trek: Voyager . (Just ask Siskoid ). Much of the writing is spot-on, and there isn't a clunker episode in the bunch. (And for...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
It's times like this that I'm so glad I chose to change the date for this edition of the Red Dwarf liveblog, because series 4 is probably the first beginning-to-end solid season. Not a stinker in the bunch. And yes, I am including Meltdown . Most fans don't like that episode. I do. But let's start from the beginning. One of the cool things about this season is that it shifts towards being a full-on...
H. C. Newton's White Noise (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Oh, screw down my diodes and call me Frank! After a criminally long 10 years, Red Dwarf will be airing FOUR specials in 2009 . That's right, the classic SF/Comedy series by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor is preparing to come back, however briefly, next year. This is perhaps the greatest thing the BBC has done since they hired that Russell T. Davies character to dust off The Doctor. But is ten years too...
io9 (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
After weeks of rumors and creative guesses, the real details of the return of Brit sitcom Red Dwarf have finally been revealed... kind of. We now know how many new episodes (Yes, there's more than... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
“Red Dwarf” actor Robert Llewellyn told somebody named Michael McIntyre that four half-hour “Red Dwarf” specials are being produced to air next year, 10 years after the series ended."It's very new news to me - I really only fully heard the details yesterday," said Llewellyn. "We're doing four new shows with the original cast. Two of them are going to be, like, proper episodes of Red Dwarf. One of them...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
2. In TV show Red Dwarf, what is the name of the ship’s computer?
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Doctor Who So what's David Morrissey doing exactly? [spoiler] Film 20th Century Fox picks up Nicole Kidman's The Eighth Wonder Books Candace Bushnell to write two 'Carrie Bradshaw: the teenage years' novels British TV Red Dwarf cast reunite for new episodes, John Cleese and Johnny Vaughan get new series - all on Dave Mutual Friends ' ratings down to 3.3m Channel 4 could face £100m annual deficit...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
(Special announcement - since I'll be participating on One Web Day on September 22nd, next week's Red Dwarf review will appear on Sunday. So please, no angry e-mails next week complaining that it's Smeggin' Sunday rather than Monday. Thanks for reading!) In all honesty, I have mixed feelings about Series 3 - no, I don't think it's absolutely horrible; it's a series that feels rather awkward, and some...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
One of the cool things about series two of Red Dwarf is that - quite frankly - it feels like the second half of a full-length season. The writing is amazingly consistent, feeling like an extension of season one rather than a whole separate season. In fact, one episode's premise later showed up in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Fortunately, this is where the universe gets a lot bigger...
io9 (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
It only seems like last week that we were being told that classic UK SF sitcom Red Dwarf would be returning for a special one-off hour-long episode to be filmed next month (oh wait: it was last... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Rumours are rife that a film version of the space comedy TV show may be on the cards
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
It would be easy, in many ways, to suggest that Red Dwarf was able to pick up where Doctor Who left off in terms of fandom. After all, Survival (Who's final episode) came almost 18 months after The End (Dwarf's debut episode) was televised...but that's a stretch. By its nature, Dwarf is a situation comedy where the situations are based on a unique mix - characterization and science fiction. (Dwarf...
