Red Dwarf Season X

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Anybody else watching this?

The last few seasons of this show have been appalling but I had nothing better to do earlier today and checked out episode one. It actually wasn't that bad, it felt like a return to the early seasons of the show.

 

[whall15]

I thought it was alright, the laughing was a bit over the top.

 

[Utey]

Some of those earlier season were absolutely brilliant, haven't watched it for years though.

 

[RedVDave]

I enjoyed it, but nothing will ever come close to the earliest seasons.

 

[Nuke]

I've been seeing the tidbits the Red Dwarf e-mails and Facebook group have been showing me since about November last year when they announced the 10th season, however I've seen no episodes or clips to date. I did see, however, that the 10th season dvd is coming out in November, so unless an Aussie tv station decides to play it in the meantime, I will happily wait the 6-8 weeks.

 

[IanG]

Love Red Dwarf.

As for it coming onto Australian TV it's a BBC Produced show so that usually means the ABC gets first dibs at it and all other seasons of it have been on the ABC.

About 10 years ago there was talk of a movie but that never eventuated. There was a fair gap between Seasons 6 and 7 due to a number of factors.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Red Dwarf was created and written by 'Grant Naylor' a collaborative between Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Rob Grant left after season 6 leaving Doug Naylor as sole writer. I think it's fair to say the series went to smeg post this.

At its best a brilliant show.

 

[natheel]

earlier red dwarf are great

 

[East Coast Tiger]

After "Back to Earth" I'm not excited about any new ones. I'm afraid it's best days are long gone. I can't even imagine how they could come up with anything new. I think the middles series were the best and I actually liked series seven and eight. It was always somewhat lame in a lot of ways, but that last series was more lame than not.

 

[Nuke]

The movie was supposed to fit in after Season 8. They had many setbacks in regards to making this movie, one of which involved taking it to an american movie studio who loved it and were prepared to make it ... except they would only do it if they recast the characters using american actors. So they were told to get stuffed!
They had scouted out lots of places around the world for locations, and Australia was high up on the list.

Unfortunately, it never got made, and after many years they made the 'Back To Earth' mini-series (which they've now claimed to be series 9) which -although a disappointing few shows- rated well enough to make this series 10. I think this is the last we'll see though, as I've seen the list of names of the episodes, and the last one is called 'The Beginning'. The first episode of series 1 is called 'The End', so I think this is going to be it. No more.

 

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The movie was supposed to fit in after Season 8. They had many setbacks in regards to making this movie, one of which involved taking it to an american movie studio who loved it and were prepared to make it ... except they would only do it if they recast the characters using american actors. So they were told to get stuffed!

Even after the two previous attempts to start an American Red Dwarf series were complete abortions?

 

[IanG]

Yeah they made an American Pilot that never got made into a series

 

[RedVDave]

Finished watching the entire season today, overall I thought it was pretty good would highly recommend it for anyone that has their doubts about it.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

I saw the first episode. It's pretty much what you'd expect. Let's face it, it's never been particularly well written or acted but it's always been worth watching anyway. This series is pretty much the same.

 

[JamesBrandy]

I loved Season X. It was heaps better than some of the later stuff they did in 7 and 8. Infinitely better than Back to smegging Earth. I hope they make more.

 

[Nuke]

Surely, the last episode of season 10 can't be the last ever. It would be pretty pissy way to finish off the once-great show. I still enjoyed this series, but I preferred series 1-8. Having said that, I've only seen this series once, while I've been watching the other ones since they were coming out and have seen them all numerous times each.

I hope we've not seen the last of Red Dwarf. Bring on season 11!