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I just watched an unaired pilot for a US version of the British series Red Dwarf. Perhaps not surprisingly it’s awful. The actors lack charisma along with any sense of comic timing, to the extent that Jane Leeves (from Frasier) seems great. The laugh track is hideous, the direction is lazy, and every change to the original script seems to be for the worse.

Naturally I watched all of it, and all through I couldn’t help wondering about Robert Llewelyn, who played the character of Kryten in the British version as well as the pilot. In the original he’s very good, and seems to be equally able in this, but surely he must have known just how bad everything around him was. How socially awkward would that be?

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