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Posted June 23, 2021 - 2 Comments

Remembering ‘Test Card F’ and Carole Hersee, the ‘test card girl’.

Known within the BBC as Test Card F, the iconic image was used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades. Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programs were being broadcast. While I never experienced ‘Test Card F’ in real-time, I first became aware of the ‘test card girl’ during the British police procedural, Life on Mars, as the card was in use during the time in 1973 that Sam Tyler ‘woke up’ following a near-fatal car accident.

Posted July 1, 2016 - No Comment

‘Red Dwarf XI’ headed to Dave in September

According to THE source for all things Red Dwarf, the long-awaited new episodes that comprised RDXI and RD XII are headed to Dave with the first six episodes beginning in September. As the self-proclaimed ‘home for witty banter’, where else can it go? Filming of the forthcoming 12 episodes that make up the two new series took place from […]

Posted November 18, 2014 - No Comment

Goodnight, Teddington: Iconic British comedy studio set for demolition

In the ‘let’s tear things down that have a history attached to it and build something that will make a lot more money’ era that we all seem to live in, it was bound to happen, unfortunately. Following on the heels of the recent closure of BBC Television Centre, Teddington Studios, the home for years to Thames Television and where much of the magic happened during Britain’s Golden Age that has been seen by generations of television viewers, is set for demolition in the not-too-distant future.

Posted April 10, 2014 - No Comment

The boys from the 'Small Rouge One' are back for series XI!

While there hasn’t been confirmation of this as of yet on reddwarf.co.uk, it’s worth putting this out there because news is traveling fast around the Internets…and everything you read on the Internets is true, right? Almost three years to the day since Dave’s announcement that there was to be a Red Dwarf X in our […]

Posted February 15, 2013 - No Comment

Happy 25th Anniversary – Red Dwarf!

15 February is definitely a day to celebrate if you love British telly. Twenty-five years ago on that fateful day in 1988, the creation from the mind palace of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor which introduced the world to the remaining on-board inhabitants of a mining spaceship owned and operated by the Jupiter Mining Corporation, […]

Posted September 6, 2012 - No Comment

Red Dwarf X: The time is near

Even though I’m still reeling over the fact that, in my possession, I had tickets to be in the studio audience at Shepperton Studios for a taping of the upcoming Red Dwarf X this past December and wasn’t able to attend, I find a bit of comfort in the almost daily releases of production stills […]

Posted August 30, 2012 - 3 Comments

Red Dwarf X sets an October 4 launch

For just a few minutes, forget that Downton Abbey 3 returns in September in the UK (January in the States), Sherlock 3 won’t even begin filming until January 2013, Doctor Who 7.1 is a mere 3 days away and it will be another year, at least, before we’ll see any new Rev programs. While it […]

Posted April 27, 2012 - No Comment

No middle-aged spread visible in 'official' Red Dwarf X photo

With all the Downton Abbey and Sherlock talk circulating around the Internets lately, let us pause for a moment and not forget the brilliance that is Red Dwarf. As we get closer to the targeted September 2012 premiere for Red Dwarf X on Dave, the self-decribed Home of Witty Comedy Banter, images are starting to […]

Posted December 7, 2011 - No Comment

Which Red Dwarf character are you?

There are quizzes and then….there are quizzes. This…is a smegging quiz. As we move closer and closer to 23 December and our trek to Shepperton Studios for filming of the first episode of Red Dwarf X, Dave, the home of witty banter (and the home for the tenth season of RD), has compiled a few […]