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News Roundup (18/11/12)

Posted by James on November 18, 2012
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  • Red Dwarf X on DVD and Blu-Ray

Red Dwarf X is released in the UK on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow, Monday 19th November. The release includes multitudes of extra features that we have come to expect from Red Dwarf releases including a two hour documentary venturing into the trials and tribulations of the production. More information on the contents are available here.

We will have our review of the DVD out soon.

The Red Dwarf cast are beginning their publicity push for the DVD with appearances on the likes of ITV’s This Morning and Channel 5′s The Wright Stuff. Full information can be found here.

Other options for purchasing Series X are available. Series pass’ are available from iTunes in both High Definition (£12.99) and Standard Definition (£9.99). Individual episodes are available for £2.49 each. You can find Series X on iTunes here. Series X can also be found on the Playstation Network for the PS3 and PS Vita consoles, costing £1.89 per episode.

  • SFX Red Dwarf X Competition

  • SFX Magazine are running a competition to win a multitude of Red Dwarf goodies including:

A panel of the Red Dwarf model ship signed by the cast
A signed, full colour, mounted print of the SS Trojan set from the Art Department
Series I – VIII on DVD, signed by Cast
A signed copy of Back To Earth
A Red Dwarf X poster exclusively signed by Doug Naylor
Red Dwarf X on DVD or Blu-ray

All you have to do to enter is answer on simple question on Red Dwarf X. Entry to the competition can be found here. The closing date for entry is 12/12/12.

  • Richard Naylor interview

Richard Naylor, co-producer on Series X and son of Doug Naylor, has participated in an interview with podcaster Ken Plume. He goes through some of the problems that faced the production in the making of Series X as well as his new pilot Music Land World.

The podcast is available for download here.

 

  • Dimension Jump XVII Update

The Official Red Dwarf Fan Club has announced a guest for next year’s Dimension Jump.  Richard O’Callaghan will join the line-up that already contains Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Rebecca Blackstone, Sidney Stevenson, Isla Ure, Tony Hawks, Alex Hardy, Simon Treves and Philip Labey and Bill Pearson. Registration for the event is £65 for current fan club members, and £80 for non-members. There are also special rates available to attendees for hotel rooms, and you can find details of how to book them, links to register and general info on the Dimension Jump website.

  • Dwarfcast: Just the Interviews

Ganymede & Titan have released their latest Dwarfcast containing a compilation of all of their interviews recorded over the broadcast of Series X with main cast and crew members including Craig Charles, Doug Naylor, Bill Pearson (model-maestro), Rebecca Blackstone (Pree) and Steven Wickham (Lister’s Gelf bride and Chief Begg).  You can find it here or you can subscribe via iTunes.

 

  • The Garbage Podcast: The Beginning

The latest edition of The Garbage Podcast is now available to download. With Series X having reached the final episode, The Garbage Podcast this week takes an in depth look at at The Beginning. Alex, James and Andrew discuss their views on the episode and take a look at the online reaction. It runs as our longest podcast yet with at least half of it actually discussing the episode.

You can download it from The Garbage Podcast site, via iTunes or you can stream it on the player below:

  • The Red Dwarf Introcast

A new episode of The Red Dwarf Introcast. This episode sees Heath, Angela, Shane, and Paul joined by Matt to review Timeslides. The episode is available to download and you can find them on the podcast’s website and is also available on iTunes.

 

 

  • Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules are Pointless Celebrities

Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules teamed up for Saturday night gameshow Pointless Celebrities in which the goal is to gain as few points as possible with more obscure answers. The winners will see price money being donated to charity.

The show also featured Su Pollard & Jefferey Holland (Hi-Di-Hi), Jean Boht & Nick Conway (Bread) and Brendan O-Carroll & Jennifer Gibney (Mrs Brown’s Boys).

Pictures posted by Danny John-Jules can be found here and here.

The episode will air on BBC One sometime next year.

  • Red Dwarf Pub Quiz

A Red Dwarf themed pub quiz is being held at The Oxford pub, Kentish Town, London. The quiz will be hosted by Lee Cornes, known by Red Dwarf fans as Lister’s Paranoia in the episode Confidence and Paranoia. The quiz will be held on Sunday 25th November. The proceeds of the quiz will go to charity. More information on ticket availability and cost can be found here.

  • Danny John-Jules 125 mile Bike Challenge

Danny John-Jules has participated in a 125-mile bike ride to Valencia. The bike ride was on 125cc motorcycles, with just £125 to cover all fuel, food and accommodation. The purpose of the ride is to raise awareness for the charity  Riders  for  Health and to promote motorcycling as an affordable and viable means of  transport.

A blog is available for the whole journey here.

  • A Brief History Of Time Travel

Official Site writer and ex-Ganymede & Titan member Seb Patrick has written a six-part sci-fi radio sitcom with James Hunt. The show will feature Robert Llewellyn as the Narrator. The Kickstarter campaign to produce the series has reached the goal of £3000 and has now been extended. Any further funding to the Kickstarter campaign will be funneled into improving various elements of the production.

The Kickstarter campaign will end on the 30th November.

More information on the series and the Kickstarter campaign can be found here.

 

Series X News – First Trailer Released

Posted by Alex on July 20, 2012
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After some technical issues that delayed its release by a few hours, the first trailer for Red Dwarf X is finally here. You can view the trailer below and later we’ll be publishing a full breakdown of what it includes. It also looks as if we can expect a steady flow of things from now on too, with the site saying:

We’ll be releasing something new every Friday, so watch this space!

Series X News – A Quick Shot From The Grade

Posted by Alex on June 18, 2012
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Today see production on the new series come to a close, and then focus will shift to finishing the DVD documentary, Smeg Ups and deleted scenes. It’s more than likely therefore that the behind the scenes shots that we have seen tweeted sporadically will come to an end. By then of course we should start to see official pictures and trailers making their way into the world, and indeed Doug mentioned on Twitter just the other day that with lots of people wanting to see a trailer he would see what he could to to convince the powers that be to release one.

That said, while we are all hugely excited to see such things, we will be sad not to see anymore behind the scenes shots for a while as they have given us a fascinating insight into the making of the new series. With this in mind then, here is a photo from Richard Naylor taken today at the grade for episode 6. Enjoy it, as it may be the last you’ll see for a while:

Series X News – Win Tickets To Tomorrow’s Screening Of 2 Episodes

Posted by Alex on May 8, 2012
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You may remember that a while ago we mentioned there was to be a screening of Series X to get a laugh track recorded for all the parts where the audience had been absent. Well it seems that the screening for 2 of those episodes is taking place in London tomorrow night at 8:30 in London. So what’s the catch? Well currently there is only one way to get a ticket, and there’s no sign that another way will appear. So if you want to be in with a chance, Danny has a lottery open for today only where anyone that invests in his short film BUCKY will be entered in with a chance to get a ticket and join him at the screening. If you want to be in with a chance, then head over to the MotoVentures site. Investments start at as little as £2 so it’s well worth a punt. Good Luck!

UPDATE – In responce to this update, Richard Naylor got in touch to tell us:

I might be tweeting tomorrow with some Red Dwarf X screening tickets for those who tweet back. Not definite yet but maybe.

So there you go, you might just want to keep a close eye on Twitter tommorow…

Series X News – Howard Goodall To Provide Music For Series X

Posted by Alex on April 26, 2012
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Massively exciting news here, with Howard Goodall tweeting:

Just received my first rough cuts of the new Red Dwarf series, looking forward to viewing and putting some music on them. Kipper-time!

We knew that Doug was in touch with Howard after the whole issue with a lack of funds for incidental music, but I think it’s safe to say that many of us expected that this would simply result in a reusing of old cues with his permission. This development however shows him to be much more involved and we are ecstatic at the news that he is once again returning to the series that his music played a large part in. The extent to which Howard will be providing music is still somewhat unclear, but needless to say this is a development that has us even more excited for Series X than ever!

Series X News – I Thought It Was A Publicity Shot From Planet of the Apes

Posted by James on April 26, 2012
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Two brand spanking new publicity shots have been released today featuring all four of the main cast as well as the brand new Drive Room.

The publicity shot gives us a good look at the new Kryten. Set reports were mixed over the new Kryten mask but it seems to have turned out rather well here. To me, it looks like the same old Kryten albeit a few alterations to the shoulders and neck.

We also get to see a new outfit for The Cat. Previously we’ve seen pictures of Cat in full costume leak out but this seems to be neither of those costumes. From what little I can see, the shirt looks to be the same shirt as he wore through the second and third episode of ‘Back to Earth’.

Lister and Rimmer are adorned with variations of previous costumes and it suits them down to the ground.

The main speculating point of the picture would be why on Io Lister is holding a jar. For which I have no answer as I’ve not seen the episode or even know which episode this publicity shot is from. I’m very helpful like that.

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Series X News – Extra Day of Filming

Posted by James on March 18, 2012
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Sod’s law dictates that if a piece of news appears on a Sunday, it will do so once we have already put up the news roundup. As such, we bring you this titbit from Robert Llewellyn’s blog, wherehe  has confirmed that the cast and crew will be getting back together for an extra day of filming for pick-ups and additional scenes which they did not manage to record in the pick-up week at the start of February.

Well, to start off, we still have one day’s shoot looming, there were numerous scenes and little fiddly bits we didn’t manage to do within the very tight time frame we were working on so we still haven’t finished the series. As you may be able to imagine, getting all four of us in one place at the same time in costume and ready to create quality smeg has not been easy, but we’ve wangled it.

We’ve heard a lot from the cast and crew about how rushed the production was at the end, which led to problems such as the need for a model reshoot that is underway now. However, what we weren’t aware was that even with the extra 6 days of filming there were still some pieces missing. That’s not to say it’s surprising though, as we had heard at the time that some planned filming had to be cut back. As a reminder, this is what Richard Naylor said was intended to be filmed over those 6 days:

Six days re shoot planned will be filming missing sequences as well as some original material. The end of Ep 4, missing sections of 5&6 take priority. Then it’s trying to make other eps as gd as poss. That Inc. Some new scenes.

Our understanding is that some of these new scenes where what had to be sacrificed to the time constraints. While there is a possibility that this day could be used for that as some people have speculated, it would seem surprising if a day was being dedicated to a new scene, especially considering what we know of the edit and the struggle t fit the episodes into the 30 minute timeframe. What seems far more likely is that there is a problem scene or two that needs to be replaced. This is still all conjecture of course, but we interestedly await further details as to what this day’s shooting will cover.

Series X News: Good Old Howard Goodall

Posted by Alex on March 16, 2012
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As you may be aware, Howard Goodall has recently joined Twitter, and it would seem he has been made aware of the situation with the music for Series X. As such, earlier today Howard tweeted Doug to ask:

Are you 100% sure there’s nothing in the budget left for a little bit of incidental magic? Even if you ditch the wrap party?

A tweet that received this reply from Doug:

What wrap party?? Scotch eggs needed as meteorites for miniature reshoot. Call you Monday :)

Dare we hold out hope yet for some of Howard’s ‘incidental magic’? Certainly this would suggest that there may yet be a possibility. Make no  mistake, while we fully understand if finances mean that Doug has to look elsewhere for incidental music, what we would really love is to see Howard’s being used. His various themes have been an integral part of the show from the start right up to themes such as the wonderful orchestral Ace Rimmer theme in series VII. If we hear anymore we’ll be sure to let you know, but here’s hoping that that phone call on Monday proves to be a fruitful one.

Series X News – Multiple Models

Posted by Alex on March 13, 2012
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I was going to let this tweet slip by as it’s hard for me to comment on, but I think it’s the kind of thing that we should be sharing with you here. As such, here is a tweet from Richard Naylor today:

Just been down to Bill Pearson’s workshop, he’s nearly finished building a fantastic new ship for RDX Series X. Not a new Red Dwarf ship btw.

Now this is difficult for me to comment on, as having been at the recordings I can take a fairly good guess as to what it might be. All that this tweet means we can now discuss is that the Dwarf is not the only ship to appear. But what does that mean? Can we expect to see either Starbug or Blue Midget putting in an appearance? Or might a new ship be putting in an experience? My lips are sealed. Suffice to say, I’m delighted that models are being used for this and I can’t wait to see the end results.

Series X News – Return of the Creator?

Posted by James on March 12, 2012
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Nathan Cubitt, who is currently editing the behind the scenes documentary for Series X, posted this tweet earlier today:

500th shot logged – now where’s my champagne? Weirdly features friends of mine (but not in this screen grab) #RDX_BTS

The screen grab in question is at the bottom of this piece. It shows a screen-grab from ‘Back to Earth’ of ‘The Creator’ as played by Richard O’Callaghan. Could this mean a return for The Creator in the new series? Or more likely a return of Richard O’Callaghan in a new role? He was originally going to be in the Red Dwarf Movie as a rogue droid so he may could be finally playing that role.

UPDATE: And we can relax again due to this tweet from Andrew Ellard:

Not to puncture your news balloon, but that’s @NathanCubitt‘s desktop background, The log/grab is in the window on the left…

Still, nice background Mr Cubitt, we duly approve.