Dwarf Comedy Connections
Oh, this is just superb. Chortle reports that the new series of Comedy Connections will feature Red Dwarf! Interviews will include Rob Grant, Paul Jackson and "Robert Llewelyn", apparently. Hmmm. The other shows featured in the series will be The Goodies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Father Ted, Birds of a Feather, Hi-De-Hi!, The Young Ones and Keeping Up Appearances. What a fabulous set of programmes, frankly.
Now, a bit of OPINION. The first series (which you can currently get a taster of from the Comedy Connections website) was like a breath of fresh air for mainstream TV programmes about comedy. (No ridiculous voting here.) It had its faults (in particular, the emphasis on the connections between the shows isn't that useful or interesting); but it was lovely just to hear some vaguely intelligent discussion about the shows from the actual people who were involved; and some decent research too - many a rare clip was shown of sitcoms long forgotten. Straight after the first series was comissioned, I heard they were going to do a second one, and hoped against hope that Dwarf would be there; my wildest, most incredible dream has come true.
We'll keep you updated as to when the show will air; production has apparently only just started. Whilst it'll probably have the odd annoying bit, it will probably be the closest we'll get to a decent documentary on the series outside the DVDs. Lovely.
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You never know, they might even try to get it released on the series 8 DVD or something - there's loads of time.
Posted by Darrell Jones at March 6, 2004 07:35 PM
If not then I'll get it on The Whte Hole.
This sounds utterly brilliant!! Rob grant at last? Yes!!!
Posted by Cappsy at March 7, 2004 11:35 AM
"my wildest, most incredible dream has come true."
Congratulations John! Is it a permanent change or will your voice eventually return to its former self?
Posted by Congratulations! at March 7, 2004 11:52 AM
Brilliant news! The first series of this was very well done but the programmes they've chosen to do are much more interesting this time around. I want clips of Fairly Secret Army and the American Reggie Perrin and Dermot Morgan doing his pre-Father Ted priest-based comedy and Paris and EVERYTHING! Ohh, this ought to be very good indeed.
Posted by clem at March 7, 2004 02:17 PM
yay!
Posted by matt at March 7, 2004 06:01 PM
Minor development's ahoy, mother fuckers!
Posted by Cappsy at June 20, 2004 02:56 AM
Excellent. I'm really excited about this, you know.
Posted by John Hoare at June 20, 2004 09:40 PM
Oh, there's stuff about it in this week's Radio Times, including the Dwarf episode. Doesn't say much we don't already know, though.
I'll do a transcript/article on it later tonight.
Posted by John Hoare at June 20, 2004 09:46 PM
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