DwarfCast 6 - The Inquisitor Commentary / 10.12.06Since we were a week late with the last DwarfCast, we thought we'd give you another this week in an attempt to a) punish you and b) to detract away from the fact we're not publishing a proper article on something interesting this weekend.
It may be a week late, but if you enjoy listening to a group of drunken oafs shouting opinions at each other then you're in for a treat!
Having looked forward to viewing the pilot for some time, well more so since producer Jonathan Brown appeared on G&T, I obtained an early entry ticket for Memorabilia solely to enable me to catch the show and Q&A session with a 10:15 kick off...
Free agents / 27.11.06Remember when me and Ian wrote articles together? Ah, those were the days...
Beat The Geek was, to say the least, hyped...
DwarfCast 4 - Thanks for the Memory Commentary / 12.11.06DwarfCast 4 and the first of our episode commentaries.
Bonehead / 11.11.06I originally published this article, or a version of it, on my own weblog, The Holoship Enlightenment, and I was asked to expand on it for publication at the (sodding) esteemed (fucking cunting) website, Ganymede and Titan...
DwarfCast 3 - Beat The Geek Review / 02.11.06Better late and hastily edited than never...
Well, with Series 3 of Maid Marian being released on Monday (although I already have the DVD - ta, Play), I thought it would be appropriate to, erm, review Series 2...
DwarfCast 2 - DJXIII Byte 2 / 17.10.06I have so many things to apologise for.
Get Some Perspective? / 13.10.06I originally started this article with a standard rant about the mainstream media's attitude towards geeks...
The Plan / 11.10.06Fan fiction...
I am such a twat...
DwarfCast 1 - DJXIII Byte 1 / 01.10.06
That’s DwarfCasts. Not PodCasts like you and Skeletor think.
Dimension Jump XIII Report: Byte One / 25.09.06Another year, another DJ...
The only survivors... / 20.09.06Folks, today is a day for both sadness and joy...
And so, over two and a half years late, we continue our look at the Brittas DVDs...
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men: The Complete Series One DVD / 11.09.06Mud, mud, all over the street, it sticks to your feet, It's mud, mud, You get it in your hair, you get it everywhere, that mud, brown mud...
Wrinkles: A First Listen / 05.09.06There comes a point in most fan’s existence when their fandom, if it chooses to, reaches the next level...
Ah, VIII...
Sorry? What was that, Andrew?
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This is all starting to get predictable now, isn't it? Does anyone reading this honestly think I'm going to turn around and rubbish this DVD to pieces? Anyone? No, I thought not...
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Product: Red Dwarf Calendar 2006 Supplier: World of Calendars Price: £7...
Here we are, then; an article detailing the different orders of Red Dwarf episodes, both broadcast and video...
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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Series VII, then...
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There's a problem with the Series VII DVD...
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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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"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence...
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Doug Naylor has always insisted that Red Dwarf: The Movie has the original cast...
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In the world of sitcom, there are of course many central themes, ideas and structures...
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"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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Red Dwarf 1 is slower paced and less action packed than subsequent series...
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I think VIII is better than VII...
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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Crime is a prevalent theme in much fiction - and it's certainly is no stranger to science fiction...
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The idea of knowing the future has always been a subject that has fascinated science fiction authors...
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It's big! It's thorough! It's stupidly late! It's G&T's Series VI DVD review! Hurrah!
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Ah well, here we go again...
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Over the years, SF has had its fair share of homages...
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Red Dwarf's effects...
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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')...
Product: Starbug Electronic Playset Supplier: Product Enterprise Price: £29...
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"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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Product: Red Dwarf & Starbug Twinpack Supplier: Corgi Price: £9...
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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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Approximately six years ago, the final few episodes of Red Dwarf were broadcast on terrestrial television...
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Well, it's time for my first DVD review, with the release of Series V...
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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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Ah. Saturday morning...
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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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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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Right...
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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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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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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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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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(Keep in mind that quotes from the show may be slightly off, due to the broken state of my VCR...
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John Pomphrey is the man responsible for all the gorgeous lighting for the first six series of Red Dwarf...
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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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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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“When I say my pussy, I really mean my...
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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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...
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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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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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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Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel in science fiction literature seems to be a thing of the past, in most cases...
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Oh dear...
This is about as technical as it gets for a Red Dwarf fansite...
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He is the music man: Howard Goodall talks to me!
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Well, thanks to this series, I've discovered that the Discovery Channel is really rather splendid...
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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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Well, I've gone and done it...
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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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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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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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Leaseholder Addendum...
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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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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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Can you believe it? We're now half way through the release of the Red Dwarf DVDs...
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The third series of the nation's 47th favourite sit-com has finally made its way onto the shelves...
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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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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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There has been a lot of criticism of the Red Dwarf DVDs...
table tr td, table tr th { padding: 5px; } I like it when they say 'smeg'...
It's been a year since the release of the very first Red Dwarf DVD...
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Another batch of out-takes, all plundered from the 1995 Smeg Outs video...
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Having It Off was Spitting Image's answer to The Lover's Guide, released in 1993...
Another disc, another musical featurette...
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I like DVD release dates...
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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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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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Honestly...
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Sci-fi shows are notorious for spanning published spin-offs...
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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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We take a look at what is promised for the Series III DVD...
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As I write this, the first three series of Red Dwarf are available on DVD...
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So, the September 2003 shooting date has now officially been put back to May 2004...