I remember when I first encountered Ashens on YouTube. I was visiting friends, they had YouTube running on a big TV and were laughing hysterically as someone with a smooth English accent tried to review some awful toy. That’s what Ashens does. He collects old tat – bric-a-brac, old toys, the sort of crap you […]
Red Dwarf gets 11th season
Did you think Red Dwarf X would be the last? A panel at Scarborough’s England sci-fi convention revealed that an eleventh season is scheduled to go into production in October. We might see the new episodes in the winter of 2015. It is reported that co-creator Doug Naylor has signed on to write the 11th […]
Space Corp report: Red Dwarf X – Trojan
Dave has just aired the first episode of Red Dwarf X. Trojan felt like a classic, funny, Red Dwarf and yet it also felt more ultimate than that. It was familiar and yet suggested final at the same time. The only problems I had with the episode were technical. I hope the technical glitches – […]
Will “The Beginning” be the end of Red Dwarf?
Back in 1988 the pilot episode, the very first episode, for Red Dwarf was called “The End”. The episode list for Red Dwarf X has just been released and fans are wondering whether there’s something significant in the name of the last episode. Trojan Fathers and Suns Lemons Entanglement Dear Dave The Beginning That’s right. […]
Red Dwarf X trailer
Red Dwarf X is on its way. This follows the one-off special, Back to Earth, that Dave was able to fund for the UK TV channel. You might wonder what happened to series 9. Doug Naylor has been on record for a while saying he wouldn’t want to make a series 9 – so we’re […]
Red Dwarf coming back to TV; 6 new episodes
It looks like we’ll be lucky enough to get more Red Dwarf! When Dave commissioned the three-part Back to Earth TV special back in 2009 they had no budget but lots of fans. Turns out that the three episodes did really well. It beat both BBC 2 and Channel 4 in viewing figures when it […]