The Dark Furie

The Secret Of Life

Kryten: Sir, you don't have to be a great philanthropist or missionary worker, you simply have to seize the gift of life...
Rimmer: Oh, God!
Kryten: ...make a contribution...
Rimmer: Oh, God!
Kryten: ...no matter how small.
Rimmer: Oh, God!
Kryten: You simply have to have led a life that wasn't totally egocentric, vain and self-serving.
Rimmer: You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

Kim woke me up with a little good news today. News that I immediately hit the news sites to verify. It's coming true, it's all coming true.

Cult comedy Red Dwarf is returning to TV, 21 years after its initial launch.

The show has been resurrected by digital channel Dave for a two-part Easter weekend special, which sees the cast finally return to Earth. Written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, the new show reunites the line-up, including Craig Charles. The hit show, which ran for eight series on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, won an International Emmy award.

Set three million years into the future, the show followed the exploits of Dave Lister, slovenly crew member of the mining ship Red Dwarf - and the last man in the universe. He was joined in his weekly attempts to make it back to Earth by a cast of oddballs including human hologram Arnold Rimmer, mechanoid servant Kryten and Cat - a preening half-man, half-animal who evolved from the ship's cat.

At its peak, Red Dwarf pulled in around eight million viewers and was broadcast in more than 25 countries. It has sold more than seven million DVDs and videos.

The new two-part series Red Dwarf: Back to Earth will be followed by a "no holds barred" episode without sets, special effects or autocue. The weekend will climax with Red Dwarf: the Making of Back to Earth, a behind-the-scenes special from the new episodes.

~ From BBC News ~

For the past ten years since the last of the 52 episodes was shown on television, Doug Naylor has been attempting to ressurect Red Dwarf and finish off the story with a movie. The movie has repeatedly been ready to film yet funding has always been pulled at the last moment. At one point £20 million was offered by an american interest on the condition that Lister was played by Hugh Grant and Kochanski was played by Kylie Minogue. The person was ridculed continually as that condition would have spoiled the shows unique appeal. As a result of this, Red Dwarf fans around the world have gone for ten years without knowing how the story ends. I have personally made a vow that if I ever came into enough money myself I'd fund the movie myself just to have the story finished.

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