Category: Red Dwarf
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Red Dwarfed
Here’s an interesting little curio. It’s a press release, that made it into many publications, including local newspapers all over the country, announcing the upcoming BBC schedule line up … … for 1987 If you know your Red Dwarf lore, you’ll be aware that the first series was delayed due to an electrician’s strike, and…
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A Ship Off The Old Block
Here’s a fun article from The Stage, marking the transition between series two and three of Red Dwarf, including some gossip about movie and US TV adaptations, and a chat with the writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
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Red Dwarf: The Reviews Are In
Here’s a couple of contemporaneous reviews for the first series of Red Dwarf, in February of 1988. The first is from the 18th, by Ann Mann in The Stage. And here’s another, this from a couple of weeks later, on the 28th, by David Bradbury in The Sunday Mirror.
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd…
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Comedy Connections: Red Dwarf
Here’s the episode of Comedy Connections about the small rouge one. It aired at the end of August in 2004, during the long break between the BBC series and the Dave series.
