Red Dwarf 10 Announced

[Australis]

Jeeze, for all those hating BTE, get a grip, it's a TV show! It may not have been as funny as we'd have liked, but considering the hiatus and half the writing team not there, it wasn't that bad. After being off the air so long, it's hard to come back firing on all cylinders, few shows have doine it.

Like others, I'll be watching, but I'll keep my expectations reined in, and will hopefully be surprised.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Well, to be fair, they've had enough time to write it, plot it and get it right so it does fire. Been a long time since the series ended...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

*throws bone*

Dave is the name of a TV channel, the TV Channel that aired the recent Red Dwarf mini series "Back to Earth"

So, there's Dave, ITV and the various BBC's? Any others?

On the subject, and I haven't seen BTE either, does Rimmer being a hologram again get explained? Isn't Death getting kneed in the crotch the official ending? Even the alternate ending shows a human Rimmer, so this confuses me greatly.

I'm still going to add BTE to my RD set.

 

[wamdue]

*throws bone*

Dave is the name of a TV channel, the TV Channel that aired the recent Red Dwarf mini series "Back to Earth"

So, there's Dave, ITV and the various BBC's? Any others?

do you really want me to list all the UK TV channels? I wil list all the Freeview channels but after that your on your own.

BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News, Cbebbies, CBBC, BBC Parliament, BBC Red Button

ITV 1, ITV 2, ITV 3, ITV 4, CITV & ITV 2+1 (currently called ITV)

C4, E4, More 4, Film 4, E4+1, 4 Music, C4+1

Five, Five USA & Fiver

Virgin 1, Sky Three, Sky News, Sky Sports News, CNN, Quest, Yesterday, Dave, Dave Ja Vu, TMF, National Lottery Extra, Community Channel, Russia TV, Teachers TV, Virgin 1+1

QVC, Ideal World, The Big Deal, Price DropTV, Super Casino, Rocks & Co, Smile TV 2, Smile TV 3, Babe Station, Partyland

there are loads more on Cable and satellite.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I agree with the others that "Back to Earth" felt off due to the absence of a laugh track. I think there have been many great comedies over the years that have neither needed nor used laugh tracks, like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Made in Canada, Scrubs, The Simpsons, & South Park. But a laugh track has been part of Red Dwarf from the beginning. It's simply part of the rhythm of the show. Plus, there are certainly some classic bits from the show that I think would not have worked so well without a studio audience feeding the actors, such as the shrinking boxers from "Polymorph" or Lister & Cat's prison cell scene from "Meltdown." Maybe the reason why "Back to Earth" didn't have a laugh track was because no one found it funny.

The other things I didn't like about "Back to Earth" were that it felt cheap and that it didn't have Holly. I didn't expect Holly to have a big role. But considering the circumstances, it felt weird for Holly to not be there at all.

On the subject, and I haven't seen BTE either, does Rimmer being a hologram again get explained? Isn't Death getting kneed in the crotch the official ending? Even the alternate ending shows a human Rimmer, so this confuses me greatly.

Spoiler: "Back to Earth"

"Back to Earth" takes place 10 years after "Only the Good..." They don't explain anything that happened in the interim or even refer to it. The only thing they do even partially explain is why Kochanski isn't around anymore. But they don't make any references to any of what happened in "Only the Good..." nor do they explain why Rimmer is a hologram again.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I just thought it was really stupid that the new season is supposedly the 10th just because Back to Earth suggested that there was a 9th - which we will never see.

Actually, "Back to Earth" referred to both a 9th & 10th season that we never saw. So if the new season is called Series X, it's because "Back to Earth" is considered Series IX, just as "Children of Earth" is considered to be Torchwood Season 3.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

*throws bone*

Dave is the name of a TV channel, the TV Channel that aired the recent Red Dwarf mini series "Back to Earth"

So, there's Dave, ITV and the various BBC's? Any others?

do you really want me to list all the UK TV channels? I wil list all the Freeview channels but after that your on your own.

BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News, Cbebbies, CBBC, BBC Parliament, BBC Red Button

ITV 1, ITV 2, ITV 3, ITV 4, CITV & ITV 2+1 (currently called ITV)

C4, E4, More 4, Film 4, E4+1, 4 Music, C4+1

Five, Five USA & Fiver

Virgin 1, Sky Three, Sky News, Sky Sports News, CNN, Quest, Yesterday, Dave, Dave Ja Vu, TMF, National Lottery Extra, Community Channel, Russia TV, Teachers TV, Virgin 1+1

QVC, Ideal World, The Big Deal, Price DropTV, Super Casino, Rocks & Co, Smile TV 2, Smile TV 3, Babe Station, Partyland

there are loads more on Cable and satellite.

And here's a list of Freesat channels...

General/Entertainment

101 BBC 1
102 BBC 2
103 ITV1 (ITV HD via red button)
104 Channel 4
105 Five
106 BBC Three
107 BBC Four
108 BBC HD
110 BBC Alba
112 ITV1+1 (due to launch October 2009)
113 ITV2
114 ITV2+1
115 ITV3
116 ITV3+1
117 ITV4
118 ITV4+1
120 S4C Digidol
121 Channel 4 + 1
122 E4
123 E4 + 1
124 More4
125 More4 + 1
135 Zone Romantica
136 Zone Reality
137 Zone Thriller
138 Zone Horror
139 Zone Horror+1
140 BET
141 BET+1

News & Sport

200 BBC News
201 BBC Parliament
202 S4C2
203 Al Jazeera Eng
204 Euronews
205 France 24
206 Russia Today
207 CNN
208 Bloomberg Television
209 NHK World TV

Movies

300 Film4
301 Film4 + 1
302 True Movies
303 True Movies 2
304 Movies4Men
306 Movies4Men2

Lifestyle

400 wedding TV
401 wedding TV Asia
402 Information TV
403 Rural TV
450 Men and Motors

Music

500 Chart Show TV
501 The Vault
502 Flava
504 B4U Music
509 Zing
514 Clubland TV

Children

600 CBBC Channel
601 CBeebies
602 CITV
603 POP
604 POPGirl
605 Tiny POP
606 Kix!

Special Interest

650 Teachers TV
690 Inspiration TV
691 Daystar TV

Shopping

800 QVC
801 price-drop tv
802 Bid TV
803 Pitch TV
804 Pitch World
805 Gems TV1
806 TV Shop
808 JML Home & DIY
809 JML
810 JML CookShop
811 Thane Direct
813 Create And Craft
816 Ideal World

Gaming & Dating

851 Netplay TV
861 Gala TV

 

[wamdue]

I wonder if the US has its own dail a tart channels?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I wonder if the US has its own dail a tart channels?

Well considering if you point the satellite dish east you find plenty of them, and most explicit than ours, I wouldn't be surprised if they do have them. But seen as they don't seem to have FTA satellite channels over there I'm not sure anyone would pay to have those tacky channels.
I guess I was wrong, there's plenty of free to air channels in America, and most look like rubbish too, so who knows, maybe one of the American posters will tell us if they have Dial-a-Tart channels over there.

 

[wamdue]

I wonder if the US has its own dail a tart channels?

Well considering if you point the satellite dish east you find plenty of them, and most explicit than ours, I wouldn't be surprised if they do have them. But seen as they don't seem to have FTA satellite channels over there I'm not sure anyone would pay to have those tacky channels.

doesnt Sky have some of those channels on its EPG? they cant just be limited to freeview? Plenty of channels on Sky that people would not pay for out of choice.

more explicit? does that not suggest ours are in some way explicit, the girls dont even take there tops off, I would hardly call that explicit.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I wonder if the US has its own dail a tart channels?

Well considering if you point the satellite dish east you find plenty of them, and most explicit than ours, I wouldn't be surprised if they do have them. But seen as they don't seem to have FTA satellite channels over there I'm not sure anyone would pay to have those tacky channels.

doesnt Sky have some of those channels on its EPG? they cant just be limited to freeview? Plenty of channels on Sky that people would not pay for out of choice.

more explicit? does that not suggest ours are in some way explicit, the girls dont even take there tops off, I would hardly call that explicit.

Yeah they're on Sky's EPG, but they are free to air channels, they pay Sky to be on there not vice versa.

You've not seen it later at night then? They got a bollocking from Ofcom for getting too explicit at one point and showing women masturbating with exposed genitals, as opposed to still having their knickers on the usual way they do it.

 

[wamdue]

Well considering if you point the satellite dish east you find plenty of them, and most explicit than ours, I wouldn't be surprised if they do have them. But seen as they don't seem to have FTA satellite channels over there I'm not sure anyone would pay to have those tacky channels.

doesnt Sky have some of those channels on its EPG? they cant just be limited to freeview? Plenty of channels on Sky that people would not pay for out of choice.

more explicit? does that not suggest ours are in some way explicit, the girls dont even take there tops off, I would hardly call that explicit.

You've not seen it later at night then? They got a bollocking from Ofcom for getting too explicit at one point and showing women masturbating with exposed genitals, as opposed to still having their knickers on the usual way they do it.

oddly no, I can count on one hand the number of times ive seen those channels. (set up for a joke, if anyone wants it) not heard of them showing naked women, yet alone showing them masturbating

 

[Bob The Skutter]

doesnt Sky have some of those channels on its EPG? they cant just be limited to freeview? Plenty of channels on Sky that people would not pay for out of choice.

more explicit? does that not suggest ours are in some way explicit, the girls dont even take there tops off, I would hardly call that explicit.

You've not seen it later at night then? They got a bollocking from Ofcom for getting too explicit at one point and showing women masturbating with exposed genitals, as opposed to still having their knickers on the usual way they do it.

oddly no, I can count on one hand the number of times ive seen those channels. (set up for a joke, if anyone wants it) not had heard of them showing naked women, yet alone showing them masturbating

I have a FTA satellite receiver, so whenever I'm going to be using it after I haven't for a while I tend to retune, and there's loads of them, seems like more every time you retune. They're often on the down time of other channels too.
I guess they might have toned it down since they were fined by OFCOM. What I want to know is what sort of person is watching those channels to get off, then decides to call OFCOM and complain when it gets too explicit?

From Wiki
British television regulator Ofcom imposed a £175,000 fine on Look4Love, owners of Babestar TV. In 2006, Babestar had become one of the more explicit free-to-view nighttime channels, containing use of sex toys and oral sex between female presenters, although the content could still just be considered "softcore". Ofcom's problem was actually with Babestar's concentration on the "barely-legal" status of an 18-year-old presenter

 

[wamdue]

to be fair that sounds like it might just be a case of one channel trying to out do the others, or maybe the ones on Freeview are more tame than the ones that are not.

I dont know what im more shocked by, the TV channels or the fact that OFCOM have done something for once, maybe it was an employee of OFCOM who saw it, (it would explain alot)

I retuned my freeview box recently like everyone else, but its not something I do, unless I know there is a worthwhile channel starting.

 

[ITL]

Surely a conversation on Dial-A-Tart channels deserves it's own Not At All Supposed To Be A Red Dwarf Thread once it's drifted away from the initial premise?

 

[wamdue]

Surely a conversation on Dial-A-Tart channels deserves it's own Not At All Supposed To Be A Red Dwarf Thread once it's drifted away from the initial premise?

it went off topic, when I listed all the freeview channels (sorry), but yeah maybe I should start a new thread.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Surely a conversation on Dial-A-Tart channels deserves it's own Not At All Supposed To Be A Red Dwarf Thread once it's drifted away from the initial premise?

I don't think so... for me the conversation was ended there anyway. And it's not like anyone was talking Red Dwarf to drown it out.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Not to drag the thread kicking and screaming off topic again, but why do so many Americans seem to assume there's not many TV channels here in the UK?

 

[ITL]

Surely a conversation on Dial-A-Tart channels deserves it's own Not At All Supposed To Be A Red Dwarf Thread once it's drifted away from the initial premise?

I don't think so... for me the conversation was ended there anyway. And it's not like anyone was talking Red Dwarf to drown it out.

Your logic is....

Non-existent? Yeah, that's it.

ITL. hypocritically also not talking about Red Dwarf.

 

[wamdue]

if anyone wants an example of the kind of channel im asking about, ive found one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSj-0mbzcHg

not seen the whole video, but im pretty sure she keeps her clothes on, and there is no oral sex, or sex toys.