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• Series X Nominated For A  SFX Award

The SFX Award nominations have been announced this week, and Red Dwarf X is up for among the TV shows vying for a prize. Here’s the blurb from SFX:

From The Avengers to The Dark Knight Rises, Doctor Who to Game Of Thrones, it’s been another outstanding year for sci-fi at the cinema, on TV, in books, comics, games and more.

Now’s your chance to tell us who rocked your universe on the screen and on the page.

You can choose one of our memory-jogging nominations in each category – or vote for your own choice in the blank space provided. Don’t feel the need to vote in every category – if you’ve only read one comic in the last 18 months feel free to skip onto the next page.

Cast your votes and we’ll reveal the winners in an upcoming issue!

Eligibility period for nominations is anything released or broadcast between 1 January 2012 – 29 March 2013.

Voting closes Tuesday 28 May 2013.

 You can place your vote here.

• Richard Naylor’s Series X Pictures

Richard Naylor has been uploading a variety of behind the scenes pictures from Series X on Twitter. There are some interesting bits and pieces among them, so for those of you that missed them or those who aren’t on Twitter, here they are:

- Trojan pyro test

- Robert’s first day in his new mask

- Bunk room explosion from The Beginning

• The Red Dwarf Introcast

A new episode of The Red Dwarf Introcast has been uploaded, this time in the form of a special spoiler filled Series VII preview. Shane is joined by Rosie, Mabel, Darren, Nutty and Cappsy to discuss the many changes that occur in the series, just what the overall quality of the series is like and speculate on how Heath and Angela will react to the series when they watch it soon.

The episodes are available to download and you can find them on the podcast’s website and is also available on iTunes.

• Man In The Rubber Mask: Now Out On Kindle

Regular readers of this site will already be aware from our roundup last week that ‘The Man In The Rubber Mask’ is no available to order in print from Amazon. Since then, the website has now also listed a Kindle version which can be downloaded now. Robert Llewelyn has been updating his book about the making of Red Dwarf, ‘The Man in the Rubber Mask’, to cover all of the events since the books release. An excellent audio version of the updated book has been available to download from AudioBoo and now the book is available from Amazon for the highly reasonable price of £6.74 for the paperback edition or the even more reasonable £3.08 for the Kindle edition.

• Dimension Jump XVII

Last weekend saw Dimension Jump XVII held in Birmingham and in the days that followed there have been a variety of reports and podcasts related to it. The Official Site has a full write up of the 3 days from Seb Patrick. It covers the event in great detail and has some great photos of the event to bring back memories or make you wish you’d been there. You can find it here.

With Alex busy helping to run the event with the rest of the TORDFC team, James provided a breakdown of what news Doug had about the possibility of Series XI. While he couldn’t confirm the series yet, it’s interesting that he originally thought he would have been in a position to that weekend and there are other interesting little bits like the chance of Rob returning to do novels as well as Doug that are very interesting and well worth a read. You can find the breakdown here. Meanwhile, Andrew covered the event by collating various tweets related to DJXVII to give a flavour of the reactions to and goings on of each day in our occasional feature, ‘Let’s Get Out There & Tweet It’. You can find each day’s roundup below:

• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

Lastly, Geek Apocalypse meanwhile provided their own coverage of the event by interviewing various guests on Saturday for their podcast. Steven Hesse and co helper for the day Viv Wiggins chatted about all things Dwarfy and convention-esque with Robert Lewellyn, Chris Barrie, Hattie Hayridge, John Lenahan, Tony Hawks, Bill Pearson and Steve Howarth. You can find the podcast on their website here.

• TORDFC – Back To Reality Issue 4: Out Now!

Just before the opening ceremony for DJXVII got underway, the Fan Club released the latest issue of their magazine Back To Reality. Issue 4 features coverage of Series X, interviews with Bill Pearson and Chloe Annett, the first part of a great comic from Kris Carter and Ben Paddon, in depth features and more!

This is the first issue to move to the digital format to try and compensate for the rising cost of printing and postage as well as allowing the turnaround of the magazine to be greatly speeded up. Passwords to the new members area where the magazine can be viewed have been sent out, but if you are a current Fan Club member and haven’t received one then the strong likelihood is that you need to update the Fan Cub records with your latest email address. If this is the case, then please contact Carrie at carrie.tordfc@gmail.com.

• Dwarfcasts: DJXVII Special

Ganymede & Titan have uploaded a new Dwarfcast, this time covering Dimension Jump XVII. Here’s the blurb from G&T:

Another Dimension Jump has once again come and gone, and we’re all left to pick up the emotional and physical pieces as we try to recover from the best weekend in any given calendar year. It was an odd year for G&T as more than half of our number were involved in the running of the weekend, but as always we still found time for the traditional round-up DwarfCast.

At the end of a hungover and sleepy Sunday, a frankly ridiculous amount of people all crammed into a single hotel room and tried their best to produce something listenable. I think, on balance, we just about managed it. For G&T alone we have John and Tanya, representing both G&T and the Fan Club we have Cappsy, Ian and Danny, along with Fan Club members and helpers Jo Sharples, Jezzmund Harrison, Carrie Parsons, Alex Newsome, Kiran Parsons, Joey Cannon and Tom Pyott. Finally, the excellent members of the G&T community that we dragged kicking and screaming from the bar include, in no particular order, Karl (Tarka Dal), Mick (mick), Mabel (HelloMabel), Annie (anniescribe) and Claire (Claire).

You can find it here or you can subscribe via iTunes.

• The Man In The Rubber Mask: Out Now

Regular readers of this site will already be aware that Robert Llewelyn has been updating his book about the making of Red Dwarf, ‘The Man in the Rubber Mask’, to cover all of the events since the books release. An excellent audio version of the updated book has been available to download from AudioBoo for a while and some of you will have picked up advance copies at one of Robert’s signings or DJXVII, but now the book is fully available to order online in a paperback format. The book is available from Amazon for the highly reasonable price of £7.19 here.

• Red Dwarf XI News

During a Q&A at the regular Red Dwarf convention, Dimension Jump, Robert Llewellyn and Chris Barrie talked about the possibility of a new series of Red Dwarf. Robert Llewellyn said ”We know we’re going to do Series XI… what we don’t know is when. Or how.” He went on to explain that they are expecting more information in the next 6 weeks but that it will not be filmed this year.

Quote and information courtesy of the Ganymede and Titan twitter feed.

• Upcoming Robert Llewellyn Live Readings

Robert Llewellyn will be making a number of appearances for book publisher Unbound, publisher of his novels News From Gardenia, the sequel News From The Squares as well as his upcoming updated autobiography Man In The Rubber Mask.

Monday 27^th May: Unbound Live. Hay on Wye literary festival.
Friday 5^th - Sunday 7^th July: Unbound tent at Cornbury festival, Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire.

• Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL – Narrated by Norman Lovett

A new feature film by independent film maker Andy Wilton featuring  narration by Norman Lovett is available to watch free online.

Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL follows Director Jamie Gunn (Grey McCulloch) and Producer Raul Kemp (Sam Smart) as they make their awful horror film TOTAL HELL. The film was made for just £1000.

• The Red Dwarf Introcast – Out of Time

A new episode of The Red Dwarf Introcast has been uploaded, this time reviewing the final episode in Series VI, Out of Time. Heath, Angela and Shane are joined by Ian Symes of Ganymede and Titan and Rosie Summers. So just what will Heath and Angela make of it? Will they love it? Or will they go against the general consensus? You’ll have to listen to find out.

The episodes are available to download and you can find them on the podcast’s website and is also available on iTunes.

•  First Contact: The Next Generation Introcast – Episode 3
  

While taking a break from this site’s Red Dwarf Podcast (The Garbage Podcast), Alex, James and Andrew are doing a second podcast for The Spoilist. First Contact is an introcast for Star Trek: The Next Generation and sees seasoned viewers Andrew and James discussing each episode of the series with Alex who has never previously watched the show.

In the third episode of First Contact the team look into the episode Code of Honour.

So if it happens to be a show that you watch as well as Red Dwarf and you are looking for something to listen to while we take a break from The Garbage Podcast then why not give it a listen. You can listen to the episode at The Spoilist or subscribe via iTunes.