Red Dwarf Fans on Twitter have likely spotted some rumblings from the Dave Twitter account, along with the official RD account and Doug Naylor himself.
With Series XI and XII news seemly close on the horizon, the following tweets in particular garnered a lot of interest.
Some Red Dwarf XI/XII news coming up soon! #Reddwarf
— Doug Naylor (@DougRDNaylor) September 2, 2015
How soon is soon? Next week. There’ll be two announcements.
— Doug Naylor (@DougRDNaylor) September 2, 2015
Today however, Dave have released to some extent what this will entail with the following tweet and Facebook post:
SMEGHEADS – competition announcement! Watch our feed at 10am tomorrow for your chance to enter and win an amazing #RedDwarf prize. #UKTVLive
— Dave (@Join_Dave) September 7, 2015
So, that’s 10AM tomorrow for a chance to appear in the new series! UKTV will be launching their upcoming program that morning at an event in central London, and Red Dwarf is unsurprisingly among the projects that they are most excited about. Two things to address here with relation to some of the comments on Twitter that should be obvious, but apparently may not be to some:
- ‘Appearing in’ does not mean starring. The strong likelihood is that we are talking about appearing as an extra. This is not to say that this isn’t a fantastic prize as it clearly is, but let’s not get delusions of grandeur.
- To those disappointed that this isn’t an announcement for tickets, for Gods sake be patient. This is a great opportunity and tickets will clearly be on the way very soon.
So we’ll see you all over at the Dave Twitter feed at 10AM. And even if you don’t win, there’s always Doug’s second announcement to look forward to…