Before I get down to the news, and bear in mind that I don’t go posting Youtube links hither and yon, I’ll say just this: Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don’t move, don’t look away, and don’t blink.
Good luck. 😆
OK, the real news: the comeback of Red Dwarf, with the complete original cast, is outlined here on the official site: two hours worth of new Dwarf, though only one hour is new story, while the other hour is making-of and clip show stuff.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful at the thought of Red Dwarf returning, with the cast back in their usual roles (and Craig Charles between cocaine-fueled mid-life crises). This has the potential to be the coolest comeback since…Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica, I guess. I can honestly say I’m more intrigued by new Red Dwarf than I am about a classic Trek “origin story” on the big screen.
But I’d rather we got four half-hours of new story, rather than this completely strange, self-congratulatory exercise that’s being outlined by Grant Naylor Productions. The fact that the news release mentions a DVD as being a foregone conclusion seems to point this up a bit. I’ll be happy if this goes over well enough to merit more TV Dwarf…but only if the second movement of this comeback has more story and less televised self-back-patting.
But what a great strategy – wait for the year that’s thin on Doctor Who and Torchwood, the year that Galactica ends, and do a real live legit continuation of Red Dwarf. What with me playing old video games and watching Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica all the time, I thought maybe this was 1978-79 all over again. But Red Dwarf and Doctor Who on the air at the same time? It’s 1988-89!
Now the only thing that still needs to happen is for Atari to go under. Again.
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