Ian's Newsround - 18/02/05
Unsurprisingly, the big news over at TOS is that Series VI is out on Monday. RDSUK came up trumps again - customers recieved theirs today! Thank God I ordered from them. Unfortunately, I ordered it to my home address, and I can't get up there this weekend. ARSE. Enjoy your DVDs, those who have them, you set of bastards. Steve Wickham seems a jolly chap, doesn't he?
Also out this Monday, Brittas Series Six! I'd completely forgotten about this! How pleasant. I imagine that'll arrive in Birmingham this weekend as well. The "stepped-up" menus look like complete shite. Just... urgh. The out-takes should be great, though. Chris Barrie's face! Hidden away at the end of the article - Chris will be on Today With Des and Mel on Wednesday. Which is not today. Unless you are reading this on Wednesday. In which case, Happy Wednesday!
Good news for moose-fuckers! Hattie is appearing at a British comedy festival in Toronto in March. Also, it would appear that TOS's move to the new server has eradicated that nasty bug whereby it gave passwords out to all and sundry, which is good news for all of us.
And that's all the news on this, a sad day for the world - the day in which Smarties tubes were discontinued.
Comments
"But no, you just sit there in front of your browser typing random swearwords into Google, erasing the spam from your inbox and trying to find free 'grownup' footage that lasts more than twenty seconds."
This is very amusing.
By John Hoare on 18-02-05 @ 19:36
I only ordered my VI DVD yesterday. YES YES I KNOW SHUT UP.
RDSUK have said it's shipped, so hopefully it'll arrive tomorrrow. Hooray! Very good service indeed.
By John Hoare on 18-02-05 @ 19:41
I'm going to pre-order mine later today. Yay me!
By Austin Ross on 18-02-05 @ 21:40
April 7th.
You bastards.
By antipodean on 19-02-05 @ 01:23
IT IS HERE. John will report sometime tomorrow morning, I expect.
By Tanya Jones on 19-02-05 @ 10:35
IT'S BRILLIANT
By John Hoare on 19-02-05 @ 20:59
Grr. Bloody Royal Mail.
By Mr Flibble on 19-02-05 @ 21:07
I hate you all.
By Austin Ross on 19-02-05 @ 21:28
GOT ALL TEH EGGS.
By John Hoare on 19-02-05 @ 22:08
(Hmmm. Actually, I might be missing one on the midsection scanner table. I've got the three obvious ones there, but there's some other stuff floating around that I'm sure must do *something*...)
By John Hoare on 19-02-05 @ 22:17
(And actually, I think I'm missing another as well. Premature gloating, there.)
By John Hoare on 19-02-05 @ 22:22
I have found two on Disc 1, someone please tell me how to find all of them? :(
By Stephen Fletcher on 19-02-05 @ 23:26
oh and now I found some on the scanner table but I'm sure that that bloody flying paper/emohawk has an egg in it!!
By Stephen Fletcher on 19-02-05 @ 23:48
Right. SPOILERS ahead, everyone.
The ones I've found so far:
Disc 1 - As you get to the door leading to the midsection on the disc intro menu, click on the Red button by the door. This will lead you to the scanner table, where you can select Starbug, planet SVC01, and SCV02, to get three eggs.
There are quite a few other planets flying round though that appear not to do anything (AJR01, AJR02, LV246, and RD128) - they're selectable, but don't appear to do anything. There's also a moon orbiting a bit planet in the corner that you can't select, which I'm sure must to *something*...
The other two on Disc 1 are easy - select the Airlock on the main menu and use the keypad, and select the Sheriff badge on the first Gunmen menu.
So, I *think* I'm missing two others. I've found none on Disc 2, and I'm sure there must be *something* there - unless they're trying to trick us. And I'm sure there is *something* on the scanner table I'm missing - unless they're just deliberately trying to confuse things.
The BBFC give the following in various classifications, BTW:
00:01:05:12 | COCKPIT FOOTAGE (mute)
00:01:25:04 | THE MEMORY MAN
00:02:00:06 | EASTER EGG SVC FOOTAGE
00:05:58:04 | GUNMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
00:00:43:12 | EFFECTS SHOTS
00:01:06:16 | HONKEY TONK MUSIC CUE
00:00:42:07 | BBC 2
The first four are definite eggs that I've found. The other three are *possible* eggs that we might be trying to find - I don't recognise them anywhere else on the disc, but I could be wrong.
(I'm deliberately not cheating trying to find them, incidentally. Although I'll cheat by reading if anyone has found any more. Hmmmm.)
The mute cockpit footage is *fabulous*, BTW.
By John Hoare on 19-02-05 @ 23:56
It is! I loved the memory man, and have you seen the GOTA Egg?? Ed Bye's never looked so fetching!! ;P lol
By Stephen Fletcher on 20-02-05 @ 00:12
and there HAS to be something on Disc 2, there usually is, it would seem a tad weird (for some reason) to just to cram them all on 1 disc.
By Stephen Fletcher on 20-02-05 @ 00:15
I fancy Ed Bye now.
By John Hoare on 20-02-05 @ 00:18
As did I But looking at the Deleted Scenes from "Rimmerworld" I fancy Liz Hickling now! ;P
By Stephen Fletcher on 20-02-05 @ 01:02
This has got to be the best DVD of anything, ever. Loads of lovely unseen bits and bobs all over the place. I LOVED all the rushes in The Starbuggers and I did wet myself when I saw the cockpit film insert!
By Cappsy on 20-02-05 @ 01:17
** possible DVD spoilery things ahead **
I watched the DVD today (well, technically yesterday) and, for want of a better phrase, it kicked arse.
"One minute I'm kissing a beautiful blonde, and the next minute it's a spermicidal fluid-dripping dung beetle."
Excellent. And Craig's further "no fear" explanation had be belly laughing.
If anyone's interested, I've not long finished a review for FilmFocus.co.uk, but the editor has yet to publish it. (Hopefully be up soon.)
By Blake on 20-02-05 @ 01:36
I CAN'T AFFORD IT, YOU BASTARDS
By Seb on 20-02-05 @ 12:45
Just listened to Psirens with the commentary. The whole cast are convinced the model shots are actually CGI!
By Cappsy on 20-02-05 @ 14:55
Actually, listening on, I think they're taking the piss. They *must* be.
By Cappsy on 20-02-05 @ 16:30
Ignore me. TEH ELLARD has just put them right.
By Cappsy on 20-02-05 @ 16:32
My review here:
http://bigblake.co.nr/reddwarf/200205.html
Enjoy. (Or not, as the case may be.)
By Blake on 20-02-05 @ 21:47
I love reading these feature-by-feature reviews. It really keeps the excitement going for the Region 1 release.
By Phil on 20-02-05 @ 22:33
I'd forgotten how much good stuff there is on the VI DVD.
By Austin Ross on 20-02-05 @ 22:33
I'm looking forward to Settling the Score particularly, seeing as Goodall was absolutely brilliant in his "20th Century Greats" program.
By Austin Ross on 20-02-05 @ 23:15
My FIRST VI review can now be read here: http://www.filmfocus.co.uk/dvddetail.asp?DVDID=64&TVbaseID=12
(Ignore The Simpsons piccy and cast/crew information - slight cock up but it'll be sorted later.)
By Blake on 21-02-05 @ 10:21
Rimmerworld was originally a direct sequel to Gunmen? Interesting! I wonder how much was changed.
By Phil on 22-02-05 @ 00:25
"Rimmerworld was originally a direct sequel to Gunmen? Interesting! I wonder how much was changed."
Nothing was - it was just moved from being directly after Gunmen to being after Emhoawk. The simulant ship is the only link; not so much a sequel as a follow-up.
By Andrew on 22-02-05 @ 09:22
"The simulant ship is the only link; not so much a sequel as a follow-up."
It says on the Time Hole section of the official site: "Budgetary constraints meant that Rimmerworld was simplified. The episode was a direct sequel to Gunmen - although it was recorded before it."
By Blake on 22-02-05 @ 11:44
'It says on the Time Hole section of the official site: "Budgetary constraints meant that Rimmerworld was simplified. The episode was a direct sequel to Gunmen - although it was recorded before it."'
I know - I wrote it. But if you read it back, the two statements are separated by a full stop.
Point 1 - Rimemr worls was simplied due to budget. (Otherwise they'd have included much more on the evolved planet itself).
Point 2 - the ep was (not "was intended to be", but was) a direct sequel to Gunmen, in that it followed on.
Okay, bad writing on my part, but changes didn't force it to be 'less of a sequel'; It was just meant to be the next story in the run, joined by a few elements.
By Andrew on 22-02-05 @ 14:21
Jeez, look at the typing on that! Ugh! try again:
Point 1 - Rimmerworld was simplied due to budget. (Otherwise they'd have included much more on the evolved planet itself).
By Andrew on 22-02-05 @ 14:22
Ah. Okay, that does make it more clear. Still interesting, though. And it makes me even hungrier for these DVDs.
You know, by the time we here in America get series V you will all be wetting yourselves about the bonus features piling up for series VII.
This makes me cry.
By Phil on 22-02-05 @ 15:47
Good shot, Mister Ellard - give yourself a goldfish!
I.e. I get what you mean now.
By Blake on 22-02-05 @ 16:34
I want the full version of Howard Goodall's "Tongue Tied" demo. NOW.
By Seb on 22-02-05 @ 17:43
"you will all be wetting yourselves about the bonus features piling up for series VII."
I wonder if they'll sell a version of the VII and VIII DVDs without the episodes?
By Rtsnthhs on 22-02-05 @ 17:52
Actually Ptil (sic), why don't you just import the region 2 versions it's not hard.
By gg on 22-02-05 @ 17:54
Yes. So do I.
By Mr Flibble on 22-02-05 @ 17:57
Also, while said demo is playing, is that model shot one that's shown up on an earlier disc? Because it's fantastic, but I've never seen it before. Am I missing out on stuff like that by not watching the raw model shots and FX footage?
By Seb on 22-02-05 @ 18:11
> import the region 2 versions
Ah, if only. But I started my Red Dwarf DVD collection before I had a region-free player, and the packaging is very different between regions. So I need to wait for region 1 so they all match up.
Sound a bit obsessive compulsive? Yes.
Yes.
By Phil on 22-02-05 @ 18:27
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/webboard/wbpx.dll/read?254661,8
"There are, I think, five eggs in total on the DVD - all on disc one."
So, I *did* get them all. I can stop searching Disc 2 or playing with the starmap like an ARSE now, then.
By John Hoare on 22-02-05 @ 18:40
Could I just say that Robert Llewellyn's comedy South African accent made me cry with laughter for several minutes. But I was in a funny mood at the time.
(Also, his history is a bit off: de Klerk abandoned apartheid in 1990, so it wasn't still in place when they were recording Series VI)
By Simon on 23-02-05 @ 01:35
I feel as though I've never seen that smeg up of Robert fluffing one of his lines and then going 'lair-lar-lair-lar... ching! ching!' or whatever, before. It's a while since I watched either of the smeg ups videos. Is it on either of them?
By Paul on 23-02-05 @ 16:01
All of the out-takes on the DVDs have previously been released on either the Smeg Up or Smeg Out video.
By Cappsy on 23-02-05 @ 16:37
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