In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series IV’s 25th anniversary, we talk about DNA for our latest commentary. Body horror, a monster of the week and an ending that brings in a film parody. All elements of the show that will seem familiar from other episodes, and all elements that are on display here. Yet this doesn’t stop the episode from being memorable with a truly meaty part for Robert Llewellyn to get his hands on, whether you intend to take that euphemistically or not. Would t...
Feb 21, 2016•31 min
Week 4 of 6 on Series XII and the show had it’s earliest finish so far. But was that a good thing or a bad thing? Was it just that the cast remembered their lines? Did the crew remember to press both play and record on each take? Did anyone catch fire? All questions to address (maybe), but the far more pertinent question is was it any good? To find out, you can hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on t...
Feb 20, 2016•9 min
Having started down this insane path a few years ago, we’re back to mark another anniversary with a brand new series of Garbage Podcasts to mark 25 years since Series IV. In this edition, we sit down to watch the accidental Valentines friendly episode, Camille. The change from Series III to IV perhaps not as marked as the change from II to III, but there are certainly some changes that affect the show going forward. In this episode we see a film parody, an alien creature of the week and a look a...
Feb 14, 2016•29 min
After a difficult recording last week with a late finish and few of the scenes being shot within sight of the audience, it was generally expected that this weeks recording would be a different affair. While this was indeed correct, I think it’s safe to say that few would have expected the direction that the episode took, and it’s one that even fewer are likely to forget. Hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set r...
Feb 13, 2016•9 min
With the episodes recorded so far in both Series XI and XII, we have been presented with a variety of stories, guest stars, locations and more that have surprised and been memorable. This was no less true of this weeks recording for the second episode of Series XII, but not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. Hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 2 of Series XII. A...
Feb 07, 2016•12 min
Series XI may have completed filming a few weeks ago in the tail end of last year, but before we get to see it on screens there is still more to record. Step right up therefore, Series XII, with it’s first episode having just been recorded. But does it continue the strong run of episodes started in XI? Hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 1 of Series XII. As per our spoiler...
Feb 02, 2016•11 min
For one final time in 2015, an audience has come dangerously close to Slough in search of new Red Dwarf. But with a final episode for Series XI, was the episode they came to see a big bang of a finale or a damp squib? Hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 6 of Series XI. As per our spoiler policy, it will not mention any details on plot or dialogue, and no elaborate descript...
Dec 20, 2015•11 min
It may have been delayed by a fire alarm, but the fifth episode of Red Dwarf XI has now gone before cameras and a live audience. But after several weeks of character centric episodes, what direction would the penultimate episode for this series take? Hear Alex’s thoughts and opinions from the recording in this spoiler free set report. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 5 of Series XI. As per our spoiler policy, it will not mention any details on plot or di...
Dec 12, 2015•8 min
Despite having been permanently camped out at Pinewood Studios since August, Alex was unable to make it see the episode four record of Red Dwarf XI. By a happy coincidence, Andrew just happened to have been granted a ticket for the recording having pleased the gatekeepers of fandom with a series of elaborate gifts. It provides the perfect opportunity for us to explore the experience from the point of view of a virgin…and also someone who hasn’t been to a Red Dwarf recording before. DISCLAIMER: T...
Dec 06, 2015•9 min
With the third recording for Series XI, the series has now reached it’s half way point. But has it maintained the quality of the previous two episodes? For our thoughts and opinions from the recording, our spoiler free set report can be found in this edition of the podcast. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 3 of Series XI. As per our spoiler policy, it will not mention any details on plot or dialogue, and no elaborate descriptions of any sets will be prov...
Nov 29, 2015•7 min
The second recording for the first of two new series of Red Dwarf has now been and gone, but not before we had time to catch it and form our thoughts on what we saw. In this special edition of Channel 27 News, you can find our spoiler free set report for the episode. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 1 of Series XI. As per our spoiler policy, it will not mention any details on plot or dialogue, and no elaborate descriptions of any sets will be provided. O...
Nov 21, 2015•8 min
November 13th 2015, and once again, Red Dwarf went back in front of cameras for the first audience recording of Series XI. In this special edition of Channel 27 News, you can find our spoiler free set report for the episode. DISCLAIMER: This is a spoiler free set report on the recording for episode 1 of Series XI. As per our spoiler policy, it will not mention any details on plot or dialogue, and no elaborate descriptions of any sets will be provided. Only where sets or other details details hav...
Nov 14, 2015•11 min
With new episodes going in front on cameras and a studio audience in less than a month, it’s certainly been all go in the Red Dwarf world. And as production mounts, various bits and pieces have appeared online, giving us vague hints at bits of the production. In this edition of The Garbage Podcast, all of these interesting tweets, photos and confirmations are up for discussion, as Alex, Andrew and James delay editing and releasing the commentary they have already recorded by taking the easy news...
Oct 26, 2015•50 min
With more details of the recordings of the two new series of Red Dwarf seemingly imminent, it seems like as good a time as any for a new edition of The Garbage Podcast. So, we should look at one of the high points of the show to celebrate the excitement we are all feeling, right? Right? Well no, frankly that’d be effort, so instead this edition of the podcast has our commentary for Can’t Smeg Won’t Smeg. But as much as we joke about it, was it really that bad, or was it a quite enjoyable centrep...
Sep 02, 2015•29 min
Andrew, Alex and James sit down to discuss the news that Red Dwarf will return for two new series starting in 2016. The post The Garbage Podcast – News Roundtable: Series XI and XII Confirmed appeared first on The Spoilist .
May 12, 2015•49 min
In the concluding edition of our continuing celebration of Series III’s 25th anniversary, we take a look at The Last Day in our latest commentary. As the third series draws to a close, it ends on a surprisingly melancholic note, perhaps more so than any other episode in this series. Yet melancholia is something the show hasn’t avoided, and it’s certainly to the strength of this episode. But it’s often an episode that is overlooked compared to the rest of the series. Is this a fitting end to the ...
Dec 18, 2014•30 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series III’s 25th anniversary, we talk about Timeslides for our latest commentary. It’s an episode that can sometimes be overlooked, but it’s scope in ideas, effects and sheer and plot should really be applauded as a fantastic addition to the series. It’s central idea is so good that it’s almost a shame it was never expanded on in the novels as the true extent of it’s ramifications are worthy of some of the better episodes of The Twilight Zone. Wh...
Dec 12, 2014•29 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series III’s 25th anniversary, we try not to get distracted by our male sexual organs as we talk about Bodyswap for our latest commentary. Considering the mixed reaction to the way Series VII would record without an audience and then play it back to one to get a laugh track, it’s often easy to forget how much of the show was often pre-filmed. This episode features a fair share of pre-recording due to it’s mind shifting concept, but survives suppri...
Dec 05, 2014•28 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series III’s 25th anniversary, we sit around in the audio nip to talk about Polymorph for our latest commentary. Series III shows a very conscious aping of Alien in it’s design, so it seems only fitting that it’s third episode should be a direct spoof of the film. It’s also arguably the point at which the show switches into the action-adventure mode that would become a staple of the show in later series. All this combined with scenes that garnered...
Nov 27, 2014•28 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series III’s 25th anniversary, we sit down to talk about Marrooned for our latest commentary. Sitcoms derive a lot of these hummour from the relationships and atangonism between the charecters, and this episode takes that to it’s logical conclusion. Trapping Craig Charles in an inhospitible waste and forcing him to talk, simply to stay sane and not think about food certainly provided a strong start to this year’s ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of He...
Nov 21, 2014•30 min
Having started doing commentaries for the 25th anniversary of each episode last year, we’re back to mark the anniversary of Series II with a brand new series of Garbage Podcasts. In this edition, we sit down to watch the fan favourite that is Backwards. There is unquestionably a marked difference between this episode and what came before in Series II, and for many it’s the episode they joined the show with. Some however believe it to be undeserved praise, and see the show as a blip in quality fo...
Nov 14, 2014•29 min
Last year September we marked the 25th anniversary of Series II with a series of commentaries for each episode because… well mainly because we’d done the same for Series I and we’d made a rod for our own back. But when sitting down to do the same for Series III, we realised we’d forgotten to ask Andrew to turn up to record. Always ones to waste an opportunity, we decided to go ahead anyway and instead preview the series by looking at the forwards version of Backwards on the DVD. It’s been questi...
Nov 14, 2014•31 min
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Nov 12, 2014•31 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, we mark the 25th anniversary of the initial airing of Parallel Universe with our latest commentary for the episode. In a Series of incredible highs it seems somewhat strange to go out on an episode that is generally the lowest ranked of the series in most people’s opinions. One of the reasons often cited is the questionable sexual politics of the show; a criticism that will come up more than once over the course of ...
Oct 10, 2013•34 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, we mark the 25th anniversary of the initial airing of Queeg with our latest commentary for the episode. This fan favourite sees Holly shine with an episode devoted to his character. While we would see this again to a certain extent in White Hole, this is the episode where Norman’s incarnation of the character is arguably at it’s best, and manages to create some of the most fondly remembered lines of the series. Why ...
Oct 03, 2013•34 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, we mark the 25th anniversary of the initial airing of Stasis Leak with our latest commentary for the episode. With this episode, we see the show developing it’s own mythology to expand the types of stories we can have and allow us to have the original crew of the ship back again. It’s the last occasion that we’ll see this until Series VIII and the last time we’ll see Kochanski until Series VI, and as such this episo...
Sep 27, 2013•33 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, we mark the 25th anniversary of the initial airing of Thanks For The Memory with our latest commentary for the episode. While Series II starts to expand the scope of the show, this episode sees Rob and Doug conducting another character study as was more common in Series I. The audience are asked to think serious questions of both Lister and Rimmer’s attitudes and outlooks, and in doing so themselves we see the chara...
Sep 20, 2013•31 min
In this edition of our continuing celebration of Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, we mark the 25th anniversary of the initial airing of Better Than Life with our latest commentary for the episode. With this episode, Series II really feels as if it is getting underway with the introduction of location filming and an opening of worlds allowing the show to expand out of it’s previous confines and move closer to the adventure-sitcom format it would eventually take on. It also sees the start of a chan...
Sep 12, 2013•33 min
Back in February we marked the 25th anniversary of Series I with a series of commentaries for each episode, and with today being 25 years since the start of Series II it seemed only fitting to do this series too. So, just as with the last series, there will be a new episode of The Garbage Podcast for every episode of Series II released on the anniversary of each episodes’ initial airing. This first edition takes a look at Kryten and ponders just how much has changed in the 6 months between this ...
Sep 05, 2013•34 min
We’ve spent the last 6 weeks celebrating Red Dwarf’s silver anniversary, but we’re not quite done yet! So join us as we celebrate 5 years, 4 months and 17 days since Bodysnatcher made it’s way into the public domain! Ok, so this doesn’t quite fi in with the 25th anniversary episodes that we’ve been running recently, but with the episode representing a missing piece to the jigsaw of Series I, we let it pass by without comment. Despite some elements of it being reused in other episodes, the story ...
Mar 27, 2013•42 min
