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(May 2006)

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A former member
I have heard that the BBC has keep back the last serves of red dwaft and the film (which is already made) because some off the presenters have falling out with the BBC, and there are holding them back?
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A former member
I take it no one has heard anything then.
JA
james2001 Founding member
623058 posted:
I take it no one has heard anything then.


If no-one's replied............

I see it so often on message boards, but never seem to understand why if a thread hasn't been replied to within a couple of hours, the OP posts again to try and encourage a response.
BF
Bewitched_Fan_2k
There is no movie or 9th series of Red Dwarf nothing.....

Funding for the movie is never going to happen but Doug Naylor in the Series 8 DVD extras says that he now knows the movie is never going to happen he will spend one more year on the last roll of the dice. Failure means he goes to the BBC and ask for a 9th series instead.

After what will be an 8 year gap!!! but still very much welcomed I think
AM
amosc100
IMHO it should now be left alone and seen as one of the BBC great classics.

The last series severly spoilt the premise and feel of the show and if anything it was one series too far (although I do enjoy watching the dancings ships - a dream sequence in either episode 2 or 3 of the series!!)
FA
fanoftv
amosc100 posted:
IMHO it should now be left alone and seen as one of the BBC great classics.

The last series severly spoilt the premise and feel of the show and if anything it was one series too far (although I do enjoy watching the dancings ships - a dream sequence in either episode 2 or 3 of the series!!)


You can't just leave it at the end of series 8, though it would be a novel way to end, on a cliffhanger. I presume that Doug knows what happens, and has everything planned, and presumebly a 9th series would be totally different, following the end of series 8.
DA
davidhorman
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You can't just leave it at the end of series 8


They really should, if series 7 and 8 are any indication of what series 9 would be like. Unless they get the other writer back (whichever one he was) it should be left on the shelf.

David
KH
KevHal
God, people don't like change do they.
Shouldn't be left, its still brilliant. God. If they make a series 9, don't fret the earlier series won't be touched or wiped from history. Series 9 and 10 here we come.
Film, highly unlikely.
NE
Netizen
The story has to come to an end in some way, it would be entirely fitting for series 9 to end with Lister returning to Earth with Kochanski. It was the main premise of the show in the first place! Of course if they do that, it would have to be Claire Grogan and not Chloe Annet.
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A former member
there still alo tof people say it kept in the BBC lock up and there not going to relases it.
JA
james2001 Founding member
623058 posted:
there still alo tof people say it kept in the BBC lock up and there not going to relases it.


That's a load of crap.
GL
Gluben
davidhorman posted:
Quote:
You can't just leave it at the end of series 8


They really should, if series 7 and 8 are any indication of what series 9 would be like. Unless they get the other writer back (whichever one he was) it should be left on the shelf.

David


I agree. In fact, they probably should have ended it in 1993 at the end of series 6, with the cliffhanger where Starbug was destroyed and the crew seemingly killed (before they were brought back for series 7, of course).

The reasons for this are numerous. Firstly, there was a 4 year gap between series 6 and 7 - too long to return to a series, in my opinion. Secondly, the original writing team of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor ended when Grant left after disagreements - he didn't want to be known just for doing Red Dwarf. And thirdly, they took out the studio audience and videotapes and replaced them with a film technique and recorded laughter.

Best to leave it on a high, I think.

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