Hey!
sily, just to let you know, Harold and Kumar is a comedy about marijuana smoking - the humor is quite baked, however some parts are funny.
since we're talking comedy series now, my all time 'past' favourite (not anymore), was 'Red Dwarf'.
Richard posted a link to "
Michigans Red Dwarf" a mythical creature that pops up every now and then.
through out the years of research, i have found out that the tv show is an illuminati setup, it has scientology symbolism throughout the last episode (which is why i no longer watch it), it is based on the "Red Dwarf" star of Alpha Draconis (
wikepedia link) - Thuban is a binary star with its partner being a Red Dwarf Star.
small rituals have been performed on behalf of this red dwarf star of draco - well without getting off course, here is information regarding the hit british TV Series.
The Red Dwarf Phenomenon
Summer 2003
On British TV...
RED DWARF continues as BBC2's longest running and highest rating sitcom, with eight series - a total of 52 episodes - to its credit, plus a number of specials. It was BBC2's top rated show for 1997 and even third or fourth repeats consistently feature in the channel's top 20, with episodes of Series VIII attracting accumulative audiences in excess of 8 million on first transmission. The
Star Wars spoof trailer for the series was broadcast in allocated time-slots on BBC2 to great anticipation and acclaim, and also received tens of thousands of hits on the RED DWARF website.
BBC2 screened the first six series over a twelve month period and every episode netted one of the top three positions on BBC2 in the weekly viewing figures charts (BARB). The first three seasons were also broadcast in their digitally remastered format, with brand new effects and enhanced quality sound and picture. UK Gold has repurchased all 52 shows.
The series has won numerous awards around the world for both TV and video, including an International EMMY Award in the Popular Arts category as well as a British Comedy Award for Best BBC Sitcom. RED DWARF has been voted by NME readers as their favourite TV series, and in the TGI Pilot Survey RED DWARF was 11-14 and 15-19 year olds' first choice. It also topped the poles in The Media Guardian's survey, appearing in the 12 year old and 15 year old charts, and taking first position in the 18 year old chart.
Recent audience composition figures show that RED DWARF appeals to all ages and the split between male and female fans to be 50/50. 40% of viewers are aged between 4-24, 40% are aged between 25-44, and the remaining 20% even include a number of people over 65 (Source: BARB).
Red Dwarf Night, a four hour special shown on BBC2, was broadcast to celebrate the show's 10th Anniversary on 14th February 1998. Amongst other things, the night - hosted by
Star Trek's Patrick Stewart - included cookery show spoof
Can't Smeg Won't Smeg,
Universe Challenge pitting the cast against the fans and the
A-Z of Red Dwarf featuring such celebrity fans as Stephen Hawking and Terry Pratchett.
The popularity of RED DWARF re-runs continues with showings on satellite and cable. BBC2 continue to place the shows within its evening line-up - early 2003 repeats are still outperforming expecting ratings for the time slot.
Grant Naylor Productions...
Grant Naylor's other productions include
I-Camcorder for Channel 4, and two series of award-winning sitcom
The10%ers for ITV. Currently piloting is a brand new animated series -
Tales from the Weird City - written by Doug Naylor and Rob Grant.
On International TV...
RED DWARF has proven to be a massive international hit, not least in the USA where episodes have been broadcast in 48 states and it is currently available in 64% of US households. BBC America rounded off the year 2000 with a massive three day marathon of every RED DWARF episode and continued to show it weekly throughout 2001, while successful runs continue on PBS. Numerous TV promotions have been recorded for many of these PBS stations using the cast of RED DWARF, who have also appeared in many of their pledge drives. The filming of 3 pledge specials from the RED DWARF film set are currently planned for 2003.
BBC America recently ran promotions for the show on its website,
www.bbcamerica.com. The number of players of a game to win a costume from the show hit an all time web-ratings high for the site and the votes in their RED DWARF poll more than doubled their average response.
After appearing in Australia on ABC, the show is now seen on UK-TV, where constant weekly screenings haven't changed the massive pull of their RED DWARF marathons. A non-stop run of all 52 episodes for New Year 2001 attracted more than double the normal figures for the station.
You might also have caught RED DWARF on TV in (in alphabetical order) Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and Yugoslavia. The show is currently being dubbed into Spanish and Portugese and has already been dubbed into Japanese.
On DVD...
BBC Worldwide began releasing every series individually from November 2002 across the UK, USA and Australia - starting with Series I and II in their hotly-demanded original, unremastered form. Each series comes as a two-disc set, with six episodes, plus commentaries, on disc one, and a bonus disc with over 90 minutes of extras - including deleted scenes, outtakes, documentaries and trailers.
Series I sold over 100,000 copies in its first three months in the UK alone, and sales for Series II out-performed even that, shifting 36,000 copies in its first week. In Australia, the launch was coupled with a cinema screenings in both Sydney and Melbourne, the first month's sales of Series I made RED DWARF ABC's top-seller for December 2002.
Japan will have released all 52 episodes on both 'vanilla' DVD and VHS by March 2003. Pre-sales of the Series I to IV boxed set exceeded the initial run of 3,500, immediately causing a second run to begin even before the release date. Within 10 days, over 5,000 boxed sets had been sold (approx. ã85 per set). Versions of the extras-laden UK DVDs also have a planned Japan release.
On Video...
Every series of RED DWARF has been available on video, with worldwide sales of over three and a half million units. The release of series VIII featured out-takes - for which the show has become infamous! - as well as the popular spoof
Star Wars trailer. All titles feature in the Gallup Top 125 Best Sellers and the Series I tapes hold 3rd and 4th position in the BBC's own all time best selling title list, and all of the videos have featured in their top 100.
Smeg Outs, the out-takes sequel to the hugely successful
Smeg Ups (which has sold over 300,000) was released in November 1995 selling 125,000 units within 6 weeks. The RED DWARF Videos have also won 8 Gold Awards from the British Video Association.
Christmas 1998 saw the release of RED DWARF Series I-III Remastered as a dedicated boxed set - with the box artwork created from original paintings - and also the release of a compilation box of the
Smeg Ups and
Smeg Outs tapes.
Red Dwarf Xtended - a video of three episodes from Series VII with over 25 minutes of previously unseen material and over 50 new smeg-ups - was released for Christmas 1997.
This followed the compilation tape "Six of the Best" , which was released in the Spring of '97 and included the creators' six favourite episodes plus a free audio CD containing interviews with series creators and writers Doug Naylor & Rob Grant and director Ed Bye.
On the Internet...
www.reddwarf.co.uk & www.reddwarf.com
RED DWARF went interactive in November 2000 with a brand new website which includes: a constantly updated news section, the latest information on the RED DWARF movie, celebrity interviews from the world of TV and film science fiction (as well as those involved with RED DWARF itself), and a host of information about all the elements surrounding the show and its personalities.
Voted sixth in
Practical Internet magazine's top ten comedy websites (July 2003), the site has already featured exclusive conceptual artwork by
Gladiator storyboard artist Sylvain Despretz, as well as a sexy photo shoot featuring Kochanski actress Chloë Annett. Outside of the gallery, fans have the chance to play a Flash game based on the
Polymorph episode from season III, plus merchandise offers, competitions and message boards. The site is updated weekly, which will increase to daily as the movie production schedule rolls out.
reddwarf.co.uk takes over a million page requests in a month, with monthly user hits topping 200,000. Every week, over 40,000 fans visit the site, and we have over 50,000 registered users, with more registering every day. The massively popular webboard and chatroom serves some 4,500 users, with around 200 messages posted daily. These numbers are set to increase as the movie goes into production, and we plan to post a virtual 'Making Of' on the site. Negotiations are currently underway for a Japanese online shop following the success of the UK, Australia and USA counterparts.
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