New Red Dwarf episode announced
 

Robert Llewellyn (the actor who portrays Kryten) has announced that a brand new episode of Red Dwarf is being filmed in OCTOBER (just a few weeks away!)

Here is the text from somebody who was at the event in, I believe, Seattle:

Could be a Christmas special (which would be a first), or could be the long awaited series finale 'Earth' which was supposed to close out series 8 but was dropped due to budget constraints (leaving fans with no closure for the last ten years :mad:) which wraps up the Dwarf story for good.

Hopefully it will be broadcast on TV, but the involvement of BBC Worldwide could indicate a DVD-exclusive episode.

Either way, this is fucking awesome (yet scary) news.

Hopefully it will be a good old classic Dwarf story and lead to renewed interest from the BBC for a new series, but considering it has been ten years, the cast are much older, greyer and balder, and the last two series were ripped to shred by both critics and fans alike... this could also turn out to be the final nail in the coffin.

Even if it is, at least we finally get to actually see the final nail rather than have to speculate forever over the cliffhanger ending to series 8 (although in traditional Red Dwarf style they probably will just brush that one off by ignoring it or giving a short, throwaway explanation and start anew anyways).

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The last 2 series were utter shite. They should leave it well enough alone.

I dunno... series 7 was weak on the comedy front, but then it was designed as more of a comedy-drama anyway, deliberately.

I actually really liked series 8, I don't know why it gets knocked so much. They changed the premise entirely but at the same time went back to an earlier-series feel with character based humour and Rimmer-Lister banter, and the isolated and trapped feel of the earlier shows with them being imprisoned.

I guess most people just don't like change and don't want to embrace it, even though after 'Earth' was dropped, the original ending to series 8 (which never aired in favour of a cliffhanger ending) returned them back to the original premise of being alone on the ship anyway. It was still funny, but a different kind of humour... not classic Dwarf but still amusing.

I'll believe it when I see it. And even then I'm not holding out much hope of it being good.

Apparently it won't air until 2009... disappointing, but still whoo hoo.

Hmmm, we'll see, im excited but worried at the same time.

Is this before or after they make the movie they've been promising the last 10 years, on and off....

Don't hold much hope for it. Towards the end it just ran out of the unique characters, situations and comedy that had been its strongpoint.

The introduction of that fuking Kochanski woman did it no favours either.

The movie is completely off the cards. No funding, no distributor, no chance.

Maybe this special will prove there is still mass interest in the show which will give the movie a kick up the arse.

Lots of American studios were interested in a Red Dwarf movie, but with a new cast. One even suggested Hugh Grant as Lister and Emma Thompson as Kochanski. No joke.

I fuckin hate america for stuff like that, fucking completely redoing shows like red dwarf the way they want, DOES NOT FUCKING WORK.

Have you ever seen the US remake of the series?? Terrible. Jane 'Daphne from Frasier' Leeves as Holly, Craig Bierko as Lister, and Terry Farrell from Star Trek as a female Cat.

Yeah thats an extra on one of the DVD's. It was fucking terrible.

I've been playing "Better Than Life" since the series ended.

Bring me out when the new special airs.

By the way, the latest rumours (stress rumours) are that we're getting four new episodes to air on digital channel Dave early next year.

It will be a new story, but interspersed with classic clips. Hopefully the story will be self contained so they can mash it all together for a DVD release. The clip show format has taken the shine off a little bit, but it's still new Dwarf so that's pretty much good enough for now.

Seen a clip of it,it was fucking awful.

I really can't wait to see new red dwarf episodes, dunno it might just be cause of nostalgia or something.

Probably not, but soaps often grant actors extended breaks to work on other things. All he would need is 6 - 8 weeks off.

Whilst he is unlikely to choose a Dwarf series over Corrie, I do think he'd be a fool not to leave the soap to film the long delayed movie should it go ahead now. The financial reward, future earning potential and international stardom that the film would create would be more lucrative than a job which would probably allow him to come back a year down the line if he so wished anyway.

I'm looking forward to this but I'm not going to get excited about it, just incase it turns out to be a glorified clipshow.
'Allo 'Allo did the clipshow reunion a few years ago and I'm sure another sitcom did it to but the name escapes me. So I think there is a chance it could essentially be a clipshow of some kind. I hope not though.

According to Robert Llewellyn, nothing else has been revealed other than the fact there is a new Red Dwarf "something" in the making:
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Details have been revealed, officially, by Grant Naylor Productions on their official Red Dwarf website:

Smoke me a kipper

The latest on the specials... filming starts next week, and Holly will not be featured in the new episodes. Actor Norman Lovett is so miffed, having kept his diary free for filming upon the insistance of the shows producers, that he has officially stated he will never be involved with any future Red Dwarf project again.

Kochanski also appears to be missing from the new episodes, so we will just have the core cast of Rimmer, Lister, Cat and Kryten. And apparently the budget is painfully small.

Wow. They actually told him to keep his schedule (I refuse to call it a diary, as diaries are for 8 year old girls) open for filming and actually stiffed him?

Yep. And stiffed him the week before filming, via "a pathetic little e-mail from Grant Naylor Productions".

Budget constraints being the reason.

Apparently the mystery fourth episode, the "clip show with a difference", will actually be Red Dwarf Unplugged, an improvisation game show along the lines of Whose Line Is It Anyway? where the cast will attempt to recreate classic scenes from the show from memory. Could be awful, could be genius.

Yeah that could really go either way...

I'm quite confident it will actually be good, we're not talking a bunch of luvvie actors here, these guys are comedians in their own right, and if you've ever seen the outtakes of Red Dwarf, some of the 'smeg ups' are nearly as funny as the show itself.

Well it was better back in the days when the budget was tiny, not holding out too much hope mind could easily fuck this up.

Yeah, i suppose the writers, if they have the talent, produce scripts of a higher quality when the budget means they can't distract the viewer with an explosion or exotic alien every 10 minutes.

The budget for Red Dwarf was always small. They budget for series 8 was no better (when you consider inflation) to the budget for series 1. They just learned to use it better... or worse, depending on your opinion. But they learned to make it go further, as far as sets, costumes, model shots etc. were concerned.

They've always struggled with budget so the fact that they're having to write characters out of the new shows implies that we're talking a severely tiny budget.

Lots of news announced:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/c...ew-series.html

You beat me to it. They aren't actually going to call the new series "Red Dwarf: Back to Earth" are they? Surely that's a bit of a spoiler. I'm guessing the "no holds barred" thing is what Robert Llewelyn was talking about in his latest video. He says we can get tickets for it eventually.
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Yes well it's only a two-parter, and that's the theme of the episodes so it makes sense for that to be the title. It doesn't neccessarily mean what we think, though. There is apparently "a twist"... hmmm...

This could be a finale for the show, drawing a line under it, or it could just be a big tease left open-ended for future episodes.

I would imagine what Doug Naylor will do is produce an episode which, if another is never made, will stand-up as closure to the story, a proper ending for Red Dwarf... yet leaving the door open for future shows at the same time.

I think it may be a way of wrapping things up. I've heard it said that there is deffinitly no movie now. So, I'm guessing the specials are a way of ending the thing completely.

Hmmm....

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Rimmer just ain't Rimmer without the unruly curly hair. S'pose Chris Barrie can't help going bald though.