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Red Dwarf X Blu-ray Review: Series IX? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Series IX!

Posted: 18 January, 2013 in Movies/TV, TV
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Red Dwarf X Blu-ray Review: Series IX? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Series IX!

IMore than 24 years after it first hit the airwaves of a perplexed BBC and delighted jaded science-fiction comedy viewers near and far, Red Dwarf made a triumphant return to television in the final quarter of 2012 — only this time, under the compassionate guidance of Dave TV (no, not the fictitious David Lee Roth network from the mid ’80s). Previously, the Boys from the Dwarf had made a minor comeback with a three-part special in 2009, subtitled Back to Earth, which took place nine years after Series VIII — which concluded with a cliffhanger many hoped would be resolved — as well as well after what would have been Series X had the series kept running full-time. Read the rest of this entry »

*DVD Review* Midsomer Murders: Set 14

Posted: 8 March, 2010 in TV
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DVD Review: Midsomer Murders: Set 14

To the uninitiated, Midsomer Murders is a popular British television program that, as of 2010, is in its 13th Series. Based on the works of Caroline Graham, the show follows the cases of Tom Barnaby (John Nettles), Detective Chief Inspector of Midsomer County. As the title may lead you to guess, this isn’t your average rural county. The quaint little villages and towns are lovely — as is the scenery — but there do seem to be an awful lot of murders around here. In fact, after thirteen years on the air, one of the popular running jokes for frequent Midsomer Murders is “How is it there are still people living there?”
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*Blu-ray Review* Red Dwarf: Back To Earth

Posted: 24 October, 2009 in TV
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Blu-ray Review: Red Dwarf: Back To Earth

Originally posted at blogcritics.org

Back during my grade school years, my friends (all two of them) and I discovered a science fiction BBC Britcom via the wonders of Public Television. It was entitled Red Dwarf, and it soon became one of my all-time favorite British television series. The premise (inspired by classic sci-fi films like Silent Running, Alien, and Blade Runner) featured a complete slob of a man named Dave Lister (Craig Charles) — an incompetent, low-level technician aboard a massive mining ship called the Red Dwarf. Sentenced to six months in suspended animation for smuggling an unquarantined (pregnant) cat onboard the massive, city-sized ship, Dave is released one day only to learn that the entire ship’s crew was killed in a radiation leak — three million years ago — leaving him the last human being in the universe (presumably).
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