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Cassandra (Red Dwarf)
"Cassandra" is the fourth episode of '' Red Dwarf VIII'' and the 48th in the series run. It was first shown in the UK on 11 March 1999 in the 9:00pm BBC2 time slot, Written by Doug Naylor and directed by Ed Bye. Synopsis Following Holly's advice, Lister signs up for "the Canaries". However, he soon discovers there are two problems: first; they are a group of expendables who go first into dangerous situations and not, as he believed, the prison choir, and secondly; he's signed the whole gang up by forging their signatures. At the last minute, Rimmer, Lister, Kryten, Kochanski and the Cat try to get themselves released from the Canaries on the grounds of Lister's misunderstanding by singing ''You Are the Sunshine of My Life'' at Canary initiation, though this fails. Their first mission is aboard the sunken wreck of the SSS ''Silverberg'', a prison ship for its sole occupant, Cassandra, a computer who can predict the future with 100% accuracy, and she predicts Rimmer is soon to die. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Dwarf
''Red Dwarf'' is a British science fiction comedy franchise created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave (TV channel), Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following. The series follows low-ranking technician Dave Lister, who awakens after being in suspended animation for three million years to find that he is the last living human, and that he is alone on the mining spacecraft ''Red Dwarf''—save for a hologram his deceased bunkmate Arnold Rimmer and "Cat (Red Dwarf), Cat", a life form which evolved from Lister's pregnant cat. As of 2020, the cast includes Chris Barrie as Rimmer, Craig Charles as Lister, Danny John-Jules as Cat (Red Dwarf), Cat, Robert Llewellyn as the sanitation droid Kryten, and Norman Lovett as the ship's computer, Holly (Red Dwarf), Holly. To date, twelve series of the show have aired, (including one miniseries), in addition to a Television film, feature-length s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bye
Edward Richard Morrison Bye (born 12 June 1955) is a British film and TV producer and director. He directed the episodes of the science-fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' from Series I-IV and VII-VIII. Early life Ed Bye is the son of Royal Marine Colonel Francis Clifford Edward Bye, OBE, of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, and of Twickenham, Ed Bye attended Mount House School in the late 1960s, where he was known as a swimmer. He later attended Ravensbourne College, London. Career In 2011, he co-founded the production company Tall TV with Tim Dawson and Susan Nickson. Personal life He is married to comedian and actress Ruby Wax and has three children. His sister, Julia (d. 2009), was married to the 6th Lord Garvagh. Filmography Director * Dial M for Middlesbrough (2019) – TV special *Death on the Tyne (2018) – TV special *'' Vicious'' (2013–2015) – 2 series * Not Going Out (2013) – 2013 Christmas special * Coming of Age (2011) – Series 3 (8 episodes) * Round Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Naylor
Douglas Rodger Naylor (born 31 December 1955) is an English comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer. Life and career Naylor was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, and studied at Chetham's School of Music and the University of Liverpool. In the mid-1980s Naylor created and wrote two comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 entitled ''Cliché'' and ''Son of Cliché'', as well as two sitcoms,''Wrinkles'' and ''Wally Who?'' for the same station. These shows were scripted by Naylor along with another writer, Rob Grant. This writing partnership was successful, with Grant and Naylor going on to co-write and produce numerous British radio and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including programmes such as ''The Cannon and Ball Show'', ''A Kick Up The Eighties'', ''Three of A Kind'', ''Comic Relief (charity), Comic Relief'', ''Spitting Image'' and they wrote the singles, ''Father Christmas is on the Dole'' which charted in 1986 and The Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac McDonald
Mac McDonald (born Terence McDonald; June 18, 1949) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series ''Red Dwarf'' and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has also had many movie roles in films such as ''Aliens'', ''Batman'' and ''The Fifth Element'', all of which were filmed in London. Life and career McDonald was born in Long Island, New York. After leaving school, McDonald pursued a stage career, with a preference for comedy and music. In 1968 he was in Shreveport, Louisiana as the local TV station's Bozo the Clown. Later he moved to San Francisco, working as a cycle courier and joining the AAA Acting Company. He developed an interest in the teachings of George Gurdjieff but in 1974 turned down an invitation to attend the movement's training school, deciding instead to travel in Europe, armed only with a fool's hat and a melodica. In Amsterdam he met a fellow American and accepted an invitation to stay in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham McTavish
Graham McTavish (born 4 January 1961) is a Scottish actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy, Vlad Dracula Țepeș in the Netflix animated franchise ''Castlevania'', Loki in various Marvel animated projects, William Munny, the Saint of Killers in the AMC series ''Preacher'', and as Dougal MacKenzie and William Buccleigh MacKenzie in the Starz series '' Outlander.'' He is also known for his roles in the video game franchise ''Uncharted'' as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in '' Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'' and Charlie Cutter in '' Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''. In 2020, McTavish and ''Outlander'' co-star Sam Heughan co-wrote ''Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other'', which hit No. 1 on the ''New York Times''' Best Seller Lists for hardcover nonfiction and for combined print and e-book nonfiction. Early life McTavish was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the son of Alec and Ellen McTavish. The fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown; 9 May 1932 – 30 January 2015) was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner".Michael Covene"Geraldine McEwan was a great comic stylist" whatsonstage.com, 2 February 2015 McEwan was a five-time Olivier Award nominee, and twice won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress; for ''The Rivals'' (1983) and ''The Way of the World'' (1995). She was also nominated for the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for ''The Chairs''. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial ''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'', and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series ''Marple''. Early life She was born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Donald and Norah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Wood
Jake Dylan Wood (born 12 July 1972) is an English actor and podcaster, known for his role as Max Branning in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. He has also made guest appearances in series including ''Only Fools and Horses'' and ''Red Dwarf''. In 2014, Wood competed on BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing'' alongside professional dancer Janette Manrara. In the United States, he is known as the voice of the GEICO gecko. In 2018, he began co-hosting ''Pound for Pound'', a boxing podcast with Spencer Oliver. Early life Wood was born in Westminster, London to an English father and a French mother. He attended City of London Academy Highbury Grove and trained as an actor at the Anna Scher Drama School in Islington, North London. Career His first acting role was in the 1984 television series ''The Gentle Touch''. He has since appeared in several television series including '' May to December'', '' Minder'', ''Only Fools and Horses'', '' Nightingales'', '' Murder in Mind'', '' Press G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back In The Red
''Back in the Red'' is the opening three-part episode of series VIII of science fiction sit-com ''Red Dwarf''. Part 1 was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 18 February 1999 followed by Part 2 on 25 February and Part 3 on 4 March. The plot involves the re-introduction of ''Red Dwarf'', as nanobots have rebuilt the ship and the original crew are resurrected. The three episodes were written by Doug Naylor and directed by Ed Bye. Plot Part 1 In a cell, Lister and Rimmer are having another furious argument. We are then shown the circumstances that led to their incarceration... Three days earlier, Kryten's nanobots had rebuilt ''Red Dwarf'', but done so far too large. Lister enters the cockpit, showing off his now non-muscular body, and it emerges that the enlargement is a temporary symptom of the nanobots' restoration process, as it soon turns out that ''Red Dwarf'' is shrinking around ''Starbug''. Suddenly, the ship is sucked into an air vent. With ''Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krytie TV
"Krytie TV" is the fifth episode of '' Red Dwarf VIII'' and the 49th in the series run. It was first shown in the UK on 18 March 1999 in the 9:00pm BBC2 time slot, and was written by Doug Naylor and Paul Alexander and directed by Ed Bye. Synopsis Lister gets a letter from Petersen containing some news: his guitar has been found in ''Starbug'' wreckage and is being sent on to him. However, Lister's happiness and Rimmer's despair are soon quashed as the guitar arrives without the strings due to the regulation preventing prisoners from possessing anything they can hang themselves with (which, for Rimmer, would be a very real consideration if Lister was playing his guitar). Lister also gets a letter notifying him that he has the right to appeal which, if successful, will apply to all other prisoners in his situation. Rimmer is overjoyed that he may soon be released, even snitching on fellow inmates who stole Ackerman's glass eye. Kryten reveals that he showers with the female inma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year.Hogan, Ed. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (song review) ''AllMusic.com''. This song was the second single (following "Superstition") released from the 1972 album entitled '' Talking Book'', which stayed at number one on the R&B albums chart for three weeks. ''Rolling Stone'' ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". ''Billboard'' called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work." Background The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two. Gilstrap and Groves, together with Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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