Amazingly, I stumbled across this a couple of weeks back, and felt nothing. Weird, because I used to be a rather large Red Dwarf fan, got all my gear signed by all the cast I used to watch at comedy gigs, knew the scripts off by heart, read the books, had the T-shirts, e.t.c.
However, I know damn well this will be horrible. Sorry, but it will be. It's been so long now with no news that they would have been better off meeting up saying 'sorry, but the film we said we were filming - actually, that never got to the filming part, and we're going to leave the series to grow old gracefully and not do any more shows'.
The only way I can see it getting any better is to drop that bloody imitation Kochanski (sorry, but Kochanksi always has been, and always will be Clare Grogan - either her or accept that she is dead once again and have no Kochanski) and stop dumbing down. I remember watching the opening for Series 8, full of anticipation and excitement, and about 5 minutes in thinking 'I'm sure I should be laughing but this just isn't funny'.
Season 8 was let down by the first 3 episodes, which were really one big episode. They also had their bigest budget ever and I think they were busy playing with the new FX they could afford rather than the storyline.
I still yearn for the continuation of the cliff hanger from series 8. I can appreciate why a lot of people wish it would just grow old gracefully BUT it needs finishing.
The film was let down a number fo times by various film companies and then Craig Charles became unemployable for a while. Its been 10 years, a one hour special can do more damage than season 8 did.
Plus Chloe Annette is hot.
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