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Series 7 was admittedly a down point, mainly because there were too many changes and it no longer felt like Red Dwarf, but I don't get everybody knocking series 8. I thought it was a return to form, almost a return to the more claustrophobic appeal of the first two seasons. Sure, it turned the show on it's head setting it in prison (talk about a gamble) but it went back to 'humour first, sci-fi later' rather than the sci-fi drama of series 7.
In any case, Red Dwarf is a show that reinvents itself on a regular basis, and the series closer brought an end to the prison scenario anyway, meaning that series 9 would have a new situation all over again. Now we'll never know.
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