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[E*F*4L]

Red Dwarf is back :woohoo: on over Easter weekend on DAVE channel.

"The A to Z of Red Dwarf

Sci-fi fans are in for a special Easter treat, with cult series Red Dwarf making a one-off comeback on digital station Dave - 21 years after its first episode. Enjoy our refresher of the key elements: and tell us what we've missed below"

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5967796.ece

anyone else used to watch it ?

[kitty]

I loved Red Dwarf back in the day- a bit worried about this comeback special, but will probs watch it

[Behelzebub]

SO excited about this, been looking forward to it for weeks now... without a doubt one of the best British sitcoms of all time, I could go on quoting one-liners from it for a very long time. And then of course there's this little piece of genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b35O8O_5ZM

[E*F*4L]

I loved Red Dwarf back in the day- a bit worried about this comeback special, but will probs watch it

yeah, im worried it won't be as good but i don't think they would do it if it would ruin it for the fans,

they are also all proper nice blokes that cannot do enough for their fans, very approachable when i met them at a sci-fi convention :oops:

[DarkAngelMJH]

I can't wait this should be amazing!!! I always remember Cat going round with aerosol saying, 'That's mine, and that's mine...That's not mine!' Hilarious and then of course when he was trying to get Lister's fish. 'Im gonna get you little fishy, im gonna eat you for my teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'

[kitty]

they are also all proper nice blokes that cannot do enough for their fans, very approachable when i met them at a sci-fi convention :oops:

Totally, I met Danny John Jules, who plays Cat, at Maid Marion and her Merry Men (ask your parents) thing and he seemed like a really sound guy.

[DelDalek]

I'm praying that this comes to dvd (hopefully region 1) soon! I love Red Dwarf. I don't expect to love the new specials the way I do the first couple of seasons, but I'm eager for it nonetheless.

[Behelzebub]

Looks like I'm now going to miss Friday night's episode as I've been invited out by a friend. Bugger. Oh well, it'll be on Saturday and Sunday night as well I guess.

[kitty]

Looks like I'm now going to miss Friday night's episode as I've been invited out by a friend. Bugger. Oh well, it'll be on Saturday and Sunday night as well I guess.

Considering it's on Dave, home of repeats, I'm sure you'll catch it again at some point...

[Jono]

Red Dwarf was a huge hit for multichannel Dave last night, according to early ratings figures.

The first episode of a three-part reunion special, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth, pulled in 2.06m (10%) for Dave between 9pm and 9.30pm. A further 341k (1.9%) watched at 10pm on timeshift channel Dave ja vu.

A subsequent screening of a classic episode took 1.01m (5.1%) at 9.30pm.

The success of Red Dwarf helped Dave to a primetime share of 3.2%, making it the most popular multichannel station of the night by a margin of almost one share point.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a152469/new-red-dwarf-pulls-in-over-2-million.html

Sounds like it did very well for a digital television channel. I guess having it on Freeview, cable and Sky helped.

[E*F*4L]

it was ok :|

hope the other episodes are better

[cxx666]

It wasnt too bad, the lack of a live audience was more than obvious however, and I think there was a little too much use of CGI. Hopefully parts 2 and 3 will be a bit better.

For those of you who didnt get a chance to watch it, if you Google it I know you'll find places to download it from

[Behelzebub]

I felt it was a little bit slow and they didn't give Kryten or the Cat enough lines but generally I liked it. I did kind of miss the laughter track, but maybe that's because I'm so used to hearing it on Red Dwarf.

Looking forward to seeing how the next 2 episodes pan out, hopefully the pace'll pick up a bit.

[xGillx]

Absolutley love Red Dwarf the full series box set sits proud on top of my dvd's!!

Been waiting for a return for years and now its happened i dont want it to end.

Cant quite work out what's going to happen in Part 3 but so far so good

[Rob]

Watched todays ep. My first so no surprise I didn't understand ti but still want to watch tomorrow's for some reason.

[Behelzebub]

Yeah........... still not *quite* as good as old-skool Red Dwarf but I'm enjoying it anyway.

[E*F*4L]

it was a bit better i thought

the "are we getting another series" jokes seem a bit desperate to me though :confused:

i dunno, i think it should have been done by the BBC & they should have got Ed Bye back to direct & made six or seven episodes for a new series because i would think that in the meetings it would have been more like, this has to be good, no pissing around & this seems to have just been thrown together there has been talk of a movie for years & they had more then enough time to write a good script.

[kitty]

This was all a bit random- the whole going to Coronation Street thing was confusing, especially as it was such a classic BBC show.

Ditto to what Helen said about the canned laughter, missed that. It was also disappointing that a lot of the sets were replaced by green screen.

However, Cat and Rimmer were still amazing as ever.

[colonal sanders]

She was psychic when she watched titanic she knew that ship was going to sink right from the beginning lol I love this