Poll: RED DWARF

Do you like the new Red Dwarf on Dave?

  • Yes

    Votes: 119 30.6%

  • No

    Votes: 161 41.4%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 109 28.0%
  • Total voters
    389
  • Poll closed .
NEOMARXIST said:
I maybe getting confused with series 7/8 because I stopped Watching. But I recall Rimmer definately wasn't in one of the series or something along the lines. Anyway apart from Tikka to ride and maybe another episode the formula was changed and I just did'nt find it funny, The old magic was gone. Never the same when only 1 of the writing partnership was writing after series 6.
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Strange because again 8 had some really funny moments and it didn't stray that far from the formula at all.
 
Has anyone here read the Red Dwarf books? I thought the first two and "Backwards" were awesome.

Plus, I liked this new episode. It's building up to the Earth story anyway and expectations were always going to be too high. Also, its nice to see Red Dwarf with a decent budget. Having said that, the 'classic' episodes were quality.
 
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Tonight
SITCOM: Red Dwarf
On: Dave (111)
Date: Saturday 11th April 2009 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 21:35 (35 minutes long)

Back to Earth (Part 2 of 3). Special Episode 2.
Katerina guides Lister back to his home planet, but Earth in 2009 is not everything the crew of Red Dwarf expected.
(5 Star)

Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn

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Marked By: 'Favourite: Red Dwarf' marker
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=158980

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
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Followed by

The Smeg Ups.
Patrick Stewart introduces a laugh-out-loud Red Dwarf special featuring the funniest outtakes from seven series of the spaceship comedy.

Polymorph. Series 3, episode 3.
Space escapades in the long-running cult sitcom. A mutant is set loose aboard Red Dwarf and submits the crew to a gruesome 24-hour nightmare, including killer underpants.

Emohawk: Polymorph II. Series 6, episode 4.
More silliness in space in the cult sci-fi comedy. In this edition, the Dwarfers need replacement engine parts from the fearsome and ugly Kinatowi.


Polymorph oh yes baby..
 
Canned Laughter

The most frequently asked by far is about the lack of what is commonly called ‘canned laughter’ or a laughter track on the new series. Just to clarify, the term ‘canned laughter’ really refers to a sound editor using library sound clips of people laughing pasted at strategic points on the soundtrack. Basically it’s cheating, and not something we ever did on Red Dwarf.

In the past, every series of Red Dwarf except series 7 was recorded in front of a large audience, this meant that when you watched the show and heard the laughs, they were just want happened during the recording. It was something the cast adored doing, but it put the rest of the production under a lot of extra strain and expense. It wasn’t that the audience ‘cost money’ in any direct way, more that in order to shoot the episode fast enough to avoid exhausting the audience, the cast and crew had to rehearse together, timing camera moves as well as actors moves.

When we shot the new series it was decided purely on budgetary grounds that this was going to be impossible. There was talk of doing a ‘live show’ but again, this had to be postponed due to budget. Notice I said postponed, there is no news if this will happen but it’s not impossible.

The choice the producers then had was to show the finished episodes to a live audience and then record that laughter track and lay it over the show. This is what we did on series 7 and this was not considered a good way to go.

It certainly is a different experience watching Red Dwarf without the background enthusiasm of the live audience to guide you, but Red Dwarf has always been a dense and detail filled show, and already people who have watched an episode more than once have said they got so much more out of it the 2nd time.
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From here. (my bold)
 
For those who watched series 7 and skipped 8, you missed out on a good deal of the old style bunkroom banter that made the show so popular in the first place. For me the first two series and Marooned from series 3 are the best of Red Dwarf, after that the dynamic changed and it became a far more formulaic but still brilliant show, with some amazing individual standout episodes with stories in their own right rather than a continuing theme. Series 7 was not great IMO but 8 was better. It's a shame they couldn't do a film in the end; any of the books would have made superb film material.
 
Belmit said:
It's a shame they couldn't do a film in the end; any of the books would have made superb film material.
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This is what I think.

However, if they were to do a film based on the books now, it'd need a proper Hollywood sized budget and would have to be done with different, younger actors to justify it.

Attempting to adapt the books on a BBC/Dave budget would have course be a disaster.
 
Steedie said:
I know one of them didn't!! I swear it! lol :D
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The DVDs allow you to turn on / off the laughter track. You probably turned it off by accident ;)

Didn't like the first half of the episode.. The Cat is such a terrible character without a laughter track, it's almost cringe worthy. Can't beat Kryten though.. hasn't missed a beat. Hopefully the other segments will save it a bit.. just don't take it on a al la carte basis.
 
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