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[kronette.livejournal.com]

Just a bit from Craig, thanking Corrie Street for giving him the time off (yah!), and talking about the costumes and reiterating that there will be a live audience: http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/269176-craig-charles-thanks-coronation-street-for-time-off-to-film-red-dwarf/.

"Everyone is back on board and they are building the sets now at Shepperton." Don't know where that is, but at least we have a location now!

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I used to watch RD on PBS back in 94 or around then - I'd just gotten out of college and was living by myself for the first time with no roommates and could watch what I wanted when I wanted!

For 17 years I have remembered 2 things: Lister's reaction to Kryten's Polaroid; and never heat gazpacho.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

That's the nice thing about having a geek mom and a geek sister, I always got to watch the geeky shows I loved.
never heat gazpacho.
Yes and 25 of Nov is gazpacho soup day.

I hate my PBS station right now because they never did run the BtE special. So, I had to buy it to see it. I'm sure that's what I'll have to do with the new ones, too. *Shakes fist at IPTV.*

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if they'll air at all on BBCA. I know it's not a BBC production, so I'm not sure about the access, there.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

It's not out of the question - I know for a fact that BBC America have shown (British) Channel 4 programmes, so obviously they do show non-BBC productions. :)

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing some of Red Dwarf on BBCA, but given that back in 2009 or even 2010 when BtE was aired I do not recall seeing it even on BBCA. So, I'm not holding my breath.

[kronette.livejournal.com]

That's about the time I was watching on PBS...I had to stand at my little 13" tv and twist the knob to change channels between channels 2 (Forever Knight, X-Files), 4 (Crimetime after Primetime, American Gothic), 11 (Babylon 5, Highlander) and 9 (Doctor Who/Red Dwarf). My Doctor was 5 and I never understood why the Daleks were so scary. I don't remember much about the first run of RD, only later when I caught series 7 and saw "Blue". That kiss imprinted itself on my psyche and made me a happy little slasher.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

X-files... *sighs* My first introduction into Fan Fic.. *sighs* I joined the X-files Fan club just to read fan fiction. :-)

I remember when My PBS station was running Brittas on Saturdays and I was cutting hair in my salon and I had to turn my client to face the TV so I could watch it. I finally just didn't schedule clients when it was on.

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Brittas was on PBS? Of course it was, and it's not now *sigh* I didn't have BBCA for years, and now I don't have satellite/cable at all (Roku streaming, Hulu and Netflix). Mom, however, gets every Charter channel known to man; she works for them. If I ever get desperate, I'll pay a visit :)

I wrote my first story in 1994 (DS9 - Bashir/Garak). Sometime close to then is when I found RD, because I was living at home for a year after college and I know I was at home when I first saw it. I did a brief stint in XF fandom; a friend of mine did the vids for it, though.

I only ever saw the Doctor Who fan club (locally, the CIA) on the pledge drives, but I have found a few references online that apparently the RD groups would answer phones on Sunday nights during pledges. I don't recall those; maybe we're too DW-based, here.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I actually can't remember when I saw my first Red Dwarf episode (probably around 1990), although I remember really liking "Parallel Universe". :D

I had an earlier slash moment, watching "Demons and Angels" in the living room with my family. I remember Low Rimmer sashaying down those steps and threatening Lister. I was embarrassed and thrilled at the same time - I think I was in my mid-teens. :)

I was thrilled by the kiss, but it's a shame they showed so little of it in the show itself. I suppose it would have stopped being funny and started being hot - which obviously wasn't the effect they were going for.

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I suppose it would have stopped being funny and started being hot - which obviously wasn't the effect they were going for.

Seriously, When I saw that, I spit my Coke at the screen and say "holy fuck, they just read my mind." I thought the ten seconds of it they showed was smokin' hot.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Kind of like that photo in your icon. YOWZA.

Chris Barrie: Most underutilized little pot of sexiness in UK comedy EVER. ;-)

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

Chris Barrie: Most underutilized little pot of sexiness in UK comedy EVER. ;-)
YES!

[kronette.livejournal.com]

MAN. I can't remember if I saw "Demons and Angels" back then. If I had, I would have freaked at Lister eating the spider scene. It still makes me shiver and I can't watch it. I have a very large, huge fear of spiders.

I had the same reaction you did to Low R/L, except to "Blue". :) It was the first time I'd seen two guys kiss, and it didn't go on NEARLY long enough. Knowing now that they filmed a good 20 seconds and cut it off before it really got going, ticks me off. It barely got to funny before it cut to Lister waking up. The shock value was just picking up and the scene changed. I've always felt cheated...so now I have the extended kiss and watch repeatedly.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I can't watch the spider bit either. Yuck.

Yes, what I've always wondered is how the audience reacted to the rest of that kiss. (I know it wasn't live; I mean the audience they showed it to for the laugh track.)