I'm sure that I don't need to tell you lot of Rob's ability to write a good yarn, and, even though the mainly-excellent Colony had an ending which made me want to throw things, I was still looking forward to reading this.

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Red Dwarf DVD - Series VII Review / 28.10.05

Series VII, then...

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Series VII DVD Review / 27.10.05

There's a problem with the Series VII DVD...

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The Humour of Red Dwarf / 04.09.05

Just what exactly is humour? The Macquarie Encyclopaedic Dictionary describes humour as, "one of the four chief bodily fluids, blood, choler or yellow bile, phlegm, and melancholy or black vile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions in the system, a person's physical and mental constitution...

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Technological Singularities: A Medium for Accident and Chance / 31.08.05

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence...

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The Cast That Might Have Been / 21.08.05

Doug Naylor has always insisted that Red Dwarf: The Movie has the original cast...

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Yeah, They're Called "Dreams" / 31.07.05

In the world of sitcom, there are of course many central themes, ideas and structures...

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Red Dwarf and Genre / 30.07.05

"Choose a contemporary television series and analyse how it can be said to conform or not to a particular programme genre...

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The Myth of [cite]Red Dwarf 1[/cite] / 27.07.05

Red Dwarf 1 is slower paced and less action packed than subsequent series...

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In Defence of VIII? / 24.07.05

I think VIII is better than VII...

Why Rimmer IS Red Dwarf / 15.07.05

Craig Charles is, for many reasons, regarded outside the Red Dwarf fan base as being the main star of the show...

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Justice: or, Crime and Punishment / 31.05.05

Crime is a prevalent theme in much fiction - and it's certainly is no stranger to science fiction...

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Cassandra: or, The Marriage Twixt Myth and Story / 25.03.05

The idea of knowing the future has always been a subject that has fascinated science fiction authors...

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Series VI DVD Review / 24.02.05

It's big! It's thorough! It's stupidly late! It's G&T's Series VI DVD review! Hurrah!

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Red Dwarf DVD - Series VI Review / 23.02.05

Ah well, here we go again...

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Thanks for the Memory: or, How to Write an Homage / 13.02.05

Over the years, SF has had its fair share of homages...

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Cause and Effect / 21.01.05

Red Dwarf's effects...

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Wrinkles: A First Look / 18.01.05

Before I get started I should point out that what you see here is severely truncated compared to my original plans (hence the rubbish title 'A First Look')...

Starbug Electronic Playset / 11.01.05

Product: Starbug Electronic Playset Supplier: Product Enterprise Price: £29...

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Hitchhiker's v. Dwarf (1988 - present) / 24.12.04

"The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before...

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Corgi Twinpack / 22.12.04

Product: Red Dwarf & Starbug Twinpack Supplier: Corgi Price: £9...

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Programme Analysis / 19.12.04

The brief for my main assignment for the first semester of my TV Production course was to analysise any television programme, of any genre, from any period...

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Pete: Part II / 26.11.04

Approximately six years ago, the final few episodes of Red Dwarf were broadcast on terrestrial television...

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Series V DVD Review (Fuchal) / 13.11.04

Well, it's time for my first DVD review, with the release of Series V...

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Series V DVD Review / 09.11.04

The vast majority of us have had to wait until the actual release date before getting our grubby little hands on this DVD...

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Just The Shows - Volume 1 / 17.10.04

Ah. Saturday morning...

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Holoship: or, Love Stories / 15.10.04

Love stories and science fiction are not always words that are spoken in the same sentence, unless that sentence was "I love science fiction stories," or "Fiction stories love science," but the last one seems a bit unnusual...

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Turning Japanese - Series VI / 14.10.04

The Japanese DVDs of Red Dwarf - of which all eight series have already been released - represent perhaps the most drastically-altered versions of the series out there...

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Pete: Part I / 21.09.04

Right...

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Comedy Connections Reflections / 31.08.04

Red Dwarf may have had 52 successful episodes spanning over 8 series and 11 years but seldom has any documentary of any worth been produced to celebrate the show.

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The Rob Grant Interview / 31.08.04

Since the split of the writing partnership of Grant Naylor, Rob Grant has most certainly been the quiter of the two...

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Out of Time: or, Alternate Personalities / 27.08.04

Alternate personalities constitute a wide-ranging subgenre of SF - there can be many variations on this theme, including electronic creation of alternate personalities (The Terminal Experiment (1995), Robert J...

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Futurama Echoes / 24.08.04

While the American sci-fi cartoon Futurama is thoroughly, undeniably different from Red Dwarf, there are still some tantalizing similarities flowing through it that really make one wonder if perhaps one of the writing staff is not a Dwarfer at heart.

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Lonely Among Us / 21.08.04

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The Best TV Shows That Never Were: or, How I Learned to Hate TV / 16.08.04

(Keep in mind that quotes from the show may be slightly off, due to the broken state of my VCR...

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The John Pomphrey Interview / 15.08.04

John Pomphrey is the man responsible for all the gorgeous lighting for the first six series of Red Dwarf...

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The Mike Tucker Interview / 13.08.04

Mike Tucker is one cog in the genius machine that is (was) the BBC VisFX department, and has worked on Red Dwarf since the first series...

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Without Him Life Would Be Much Grimmer / 02.08.04

My favourite character is Lister, without a doubt, because I think there's something very reassuring in the concept that the very last surviving human will be this scuzzy space bum who, you know, who's powered by beer and curry, and Lister looks like something the cat wouldn't drag in...

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Filthy, Rich & Catflap / 29.07.04

“When I say my pussy, I really mean my...

Infinity Welcomes Better Than Backwards Last Humans / 27.06.04

I might as well get the bold statement out of the way, for the sake of argument, as it's just going to clog up the article if I don't get on and say it : The Red Dwarf novels, in my opinion, are better than the TV series upon which they are based...

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Dimension Jump XI / 17.06.04

Is it me, or is that cockroach shuffling too loudly? For three days in the summer of 2004, 200-odd Red Dwarf fans descended on the sleepy town of Bedford...

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Dimension Jump XI / 15.06.04

Dimension Jump is the (almost) annual convention organised by The Official Red Dwarf Fan Club and staged at a glamorous and bustling English city...

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Timeslides: or, Time Travel / 28.05.04

Time travel is still used in science fiction, but not as much as when SF was in its infancy and early adolescence - much like Faster-Than-Light travel, it is generally considered unscientific.

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Celebrities Disfigured / 23.05.04

Supermodel Caprice and actor Craig Charles don prosthetic make-up to give them facial disfigurements, for the purposes of a Channel 4 documentary? Interesting social experiment, or cheap and tacky entertainment? You decide.

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Future Echoes: or, Faster-Than-Light Travel / 09.05.04

Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel in science fiction literature seems to be a thing of the past, in most cases...

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The Red Dwarf Boom Guide / 02.05.04

Oh dear...

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The Science of Red Dwarf / 26.04.04

This is about as technical as it gets for a Red Dwarf fansite...

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The Howard Goodall Interview / 15.04.04

He is the music man: Howard Goodall talks to me!

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Chris Barrie's Massive Engines / 05.04.04

Well, thanks to this series, I've discovered that the Discovery Channel is really rather splendid...

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White Hole Re-Mastered / 01.04.04

Six years after the original batch of re-edited episodes were released, G&T can exclusively reveal that Grant Naylor Productions are currently hard at work on the finishing the job - Series IV-VI Re-Mastered...

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Howard Goodall Interview / 08.03.04

Well, I've gone and done it...

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The Peter Tyler Interview / 25.02.04

Peter Tyler is a veritable Visual Effects expert, having worked in film and television for nearly a quarter of a century...

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Red Dwarf DVD - Series V Review / 24.02.04

A few days after receiving Series V on DVD, I sat at my computer with the intention of banging out a review during the day...

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Fan Commentary / 16.02.04

So, I get an e-mail, as do roughly a thousand or more others, informing me of a competition, the prize for which being the opportunity to record a fan commentary on the upcoming series V & VI DVDs...

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Series IV DVD Review Addendum / 14.02.04

Leaseholder Addendum...

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Series V DVD Preview / 08.02.04

With Series IV only days away from dropping onto my doormat (PlayUSA posted it two days ago) I think the time has come to look into Series V in a bit more detail.

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Series IV DVD Review / 05.02.04

Fucking Americans, eh? Going to war for no apparant reason is one thing, but them getting their cotton-pickin' hands on a Red Dwarf DVD before us Brits is unforgivable...

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Red Dwarf DVD - Series IV Review / 04.02.04

Can you believe it? We're now half way through the release of the Red Dwarf DVDs...

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The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series Three / 19.01.04

The third series of the nation's 47th favourite sit-com has finally made its way onto the shelves...

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Series IV DVD Preview: Byte One / 16.01.04

Well, here we are - another completely uneducated guess at the upcoming Series IV DVD, padded out with completely irrelevant asides to camera...

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Easter Smeggs / 15.01.04

After a relatively poor showing for the first two releases, both in terms of content and hiding places, the easter eggs from Series III onwards continued the trend of remarkable improvement, and they are now among the most eagerly anticipated features of the discs...

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You jammy goits. / 13.01.04

There has been a lot of criticism of the Red Dwarf DVDs...

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The Smeg List / 01.01.04

table tr td, table tr th { padding: 5px; } I like it when they say 'smeg'...

Red Dwarf DVD - Series III Review / 01.12.03

It's been a year since the release of the very first Red Dwarf DVD...

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Series III Smeg Ups / 21.11.03

Another batch of out-takes, all plundered from the 1995 Smeg Outs video...

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Having It Off / 09.11.03

Having It Off was Spitting Image's answer to The Lover's Guide, released in 1993...

Food Featurette / 04.11.03

Another disc, another musical featurette...

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Series III DVD Review / 02.11.03

I like DVD release dates...

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Series III DVD Preview: Byte Two / 27.10.03

Quite a lot has appeared in various places about the III DVD since our last article - and we've thought up some more rantings...

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Interview: Andrew Ellard / 24.10.03

We e-mailed DVD Associate Producer Andrew Ellard, on the off chance that he might provide us with a little interview...

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The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series Two / 19.10.03

Honestly...

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The Good Book Guide / 18.10.03

Sci-fi shows are notorious for spanning published spin-offs...

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The Red Dwarf Drinking Game: Re-mastered / 07.10.03

Inspired by a combination of the various Red Dwarf Drinking Games around the net and Tanya Jones, we present our version, for use when forced to watch a Re-mastered episode (to try and make it slightly enjoyable)...

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Series III DVD Preview / 03.10.03

We take a look at what is promised for the Series III DVD...

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D.V.Don't / 03.10.03

As I write this, the first three series of Red Dwarf are available on DVD...

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Delayed Reaction / 30.09.03

So, the September 2003 shooting date has now officially been put back to May 2004...

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The Norman Lovett Interview / 19.09.03

Fresh from the unexpected success of asking Robert Llewellyn for an interview, here is an equally exclusive Norman Lovett interview.

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Father of Dwarf / 14.09.03

Every single Red Dwarf fan ever knows that Red Dwarf was based on the Dave Hollins: Space Cadet sketches from Son of Cliché...

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Insult List / 05.09.03

table...

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Incompetence / 28.08.03

Incompetence will be released in December 2003...

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The Robert Llewellyn Interview / 24.08.03

I emailed him, he agreed, I emailed the questions, he emailed me the answers...

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RI:SE and Shine / 09.08.03

On Thursday 7th August, Danny John-Jules appeared on RI:SE...

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Darkside of the Dwarf: Red Dwarf Fan Spasms / 03.08.03

Well maybe not a dark side as such, probably an 'off-white side' may be a better description, but here goes anyway.

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Darkside of the Dwarf: Doomed Survivors / 02.08.03

Despite having debuted at around the same time as Have I Got News For You, Red Dwarf has been rather less successful...

Darkside of the Dwarf: A Fly in my Gazpacho Soup / 01.08.03

Jonathan Capps is a student from the North of England and is a regular poster on The Official Red Dwarf WebBoard and is known for airing his comments frankly...

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Thanks For The Memorabilia / 30.07.03

From humble beginnings as a small, annual collectors' fair, Memorabilia has grown into a star-studded event, taking up a huge hall in Birmingham's NEC...

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Red Dwarf A-Z / 24.07.03

Not to be confused with the hollowed-out book in which Rimmer kept his diary, this alphabet-based compilation originally featured in Red Dwarf Night, and was subsequently released on the Series VII Byte Three video and the Series II DVD...

The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series One / 23.07.03

Over twelve years after the first broadcast, Series One of The Brittas Empire has finally been released in its entireity, thanks to Eureka Video...

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The Debate: Series VIII's Setting / 21.07.03

It's very rare that we disagree about things, but when we do it tends to be interesting...

Dark Ages / 17.07.03

The first episodes of Rob Grant's historical sit-com were broadcast on the day of my nan's funeral...

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Series II Deleted Scenes / 17.07.03

While the scenes deleted from Series I were entertaining purely for the curiosity value, the ones from Series II are actually very funny...

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Series II Smeg Ups / 07.07.03

As per the Series I DVD, no actual new out-takes were used for this compilation...

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Better Dead Than Smeg / 29.06.03

The Official Red Dwarf Companion / 27.06.03

Price: £6...

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Rude For A Reason / 19.06.03

Recorded at the Brixton Academy in June 1999, this Comic Relief video featured some of the best British stand-ups of all time...

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Continuity Announcement / 16.06.03

With the recent discussions on alt...

TMITRM: Epilogue / 15.06.03

Robert Llewellyn's marvellous book, The Man in the Rubber Mask (detailing behind the scenes on Red Dwarf III-V, and the US Pilot), is now sadly out of print...

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Smeg Ups - smeg? Smeg off! / 13.06.03

That's quite enough 'smeg's for one article, and that's only in the title...

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Channel 27 Closes! / 31.12.05

Howard Good-o! / 31.12.05

John's Roundup - 31/12/05 / 31.12.05

Advertey goodness / 30.12.05

A New Departure for OD... / 29.12.05

TWO Events! / 28.12.05

So you mean you've never had a steak pie, peas and chips then? / 28.12.05

Mr Flibbles are very cross / 27.12.05

The G&T Christmas Message / 25.12.05

What did we do Christmas Day? / 25.12.05

200,000 copies of each Dwarf DVD sold in the UK! / 25.12.05

Rob Grant IRC Log from 1996! / 24.12.05

Prototype Skutter Toy! / 24.12.05

Red Dwarf Calendar 2006 Review / 24.12.05

Like a blind, old, incontinent sheepdog. / 20.12.05

So, something I've been wondering... / 19.12.05

Attention, Space Cadets Marketing People! / 19.12.05

*cough* / 19.12.05

John's Roundup - 19/12/05 / 19.12.05

Absolutely brimming over with wrongability / 15.12.05

Amusing old G&T pages / 15.12.05

What's that? / It's a homing device... / 15.12.05

BREAKING NEWS / 09.12.05

VIII Cover Art Released / 09.12.05

DJXIII Announced! / 09.12.05

Avoid Disappointment! / 09.12.05

Attention Australians! / 08.12.05

Episode Orders / 05.12.05

It's Christmas! / 04.12.05

Watch this! / 30.11.05

Reasons not to have the red_dwarf LJ community on your friends list part #234532 / 28.11.05

Dwarf is better than [insert SF show here] Part #2834642 / 26.11.05

John's Newsround - 26/11/05 / 26.11.05

I don't think they meant that. It probably just plopped out. / 24.11.05

VIII Preorder! / 24.11.05

"...of no value or interest" / 23.11.05

Woo-Who! / 20.11.05

Incompeblah / 20.11.05

VII DVD Reviews: Mags / 19.11.05

How useful is Google? / 19.11.05

Errr... / 19.11.05

RDSUK My Balls / 19.11.05

John's Roundup - 18/11/05 / 19.11.05

I haven't read it yet, but I love it / 16.11.05

John's Newsround - 14/11/05 / 14.11.05

Wallpapers! / 12.11.05

Extras, you say? / 08.11.05

Telekin-what-anesis? / 08.11.05

Life's a gas / 06.11.05

Where do I start? / 05.11.05

James Hickey / 05.11.05

John's Newsround - Late/Sorry/05 / 02.11.05

Machines will rule the world / 01.11.05

News of the Screws / 29.10.05

Series VII DVD Review / 28.10.05

IT. ISN'T. HERE. YET. / 27.10.05

That'll drop the circulation / 27.10.05

The Model Unit / 27.10.05

Hilary Bevan Jones / 25.10.05

Red Dwarf: The Card Game / 25.10.05

Jesus / 24.10.05

That Emohawk deleted cockpit scene / 24.10.05

For anyone who's not seen it... / 24.10.05

Channel 27 Launches! Again! / 23.10.05

Talkie Toaster / 23.10.05

Ian's Newsround - 21/10/05 / 21.10.05

Getting Your Rok's Off / 18.10.05

Red. Dwarf. Comic. / 17.10.05

How the fuck did they keep this one quiet? / 17.10.05

Didn't You Kill My Mother In-Law? / 16.10.05

cough / 19.12.05