• Doug Naylor has revealed that channel Dave has backtracked on plans to make more Red Dwarf
  • UKTV told him he should stop writing a new special as it is no longer commissioning scripted comedy
  • The script involved Lister going back in time to help his 23-year-old self escape from stasis
  • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I wonder what did it in? I assume they had someone watch the source material without nostalgia-goggles. Did they take offence to the character named Arselicker? The darker skinned character that was literally sub-human, named Cool Negro? Or the main character’s catchphrase, “Dickcheese!”

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Damn. You ripped the nostalgia goggles right off my face just now. As a kid I never thought twice about those names, so I continued thinking nothing of them until just now. I feel like I’m losing my religion.