What happened to Rimmer from "Red Dwarf" ?

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I was just watching some episodes of the seventh series of "Red Dwarf". What happened to Rimmer ? The show doesn't work without him. Did the actor playing him realise the show had jumped the shark and get out in time to try to resurrect his career.

Absence of Rimmer completely destroys the show. Cat and Kryten are completely one-dimensional, and Kochansky is annoying . Why did they bring her in? If they just wanted somebody with sex appeal, they could have just brought in a whore-bot. Smeg it! Smeg it! Smeg it! You need both Lister AND Rimmer to make "Red Dwarf" a decent program.

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I loved Red Dwarf ("its cold outside/theres no kind of atmosphere/we're all alone/more or less"?), but I used to watch it when I was still in high school, like, fifteen+ years ago - must be many series back I suppose

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Isn't there a film coming?

I adore it, too.

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Since Craig Charles stood trial accused of being a rapist, I think the public went off the show even though he was exonerated.

That charge is not easy for the public to forget, they tend to think of it as "he got away with it" rather than "justice was served an innocent man was found not guilty"

I'm sure this didn't help the shows ratings.

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Craig Charles was accused of being a rapist!?!?! He always seems so sweet.

NO, i think the show jumped the shark a while back. For a number of reasons, the new editions of the show jsut aren't as good as the originals. That whole prison series was utter crap.

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Rimmer dropped out from the series for a while, the extra character was taken up by an 'alternative Kachansky' that was stranded in Dave's 'reality'.

However, by the last series they had managed to recreate 'Red Dwarf' with a live Rimmer who managed to end up in all sorts of trouble when he believed Lister's stories about what had happened.

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Odd Socks wrote:

Craig Charles was accused of being a rapist!?!?! He always seems so sweet.

Odd Socks, Ted Bundy was the most charming gentleman in America.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/tedbundy1.shtml

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You're right, of course. It's just surprising that he would be accused and so readily believed. YOu'd think, considering his clean-cut public persona , the tabloids (which don't really consider anything in depth) would have sided with him immediately.

I'm always attracted to murderers and rapists, on the box and in real life. Norman Bates (as played by Anthony Perkins) was the absolute hottest guy ever to appear on the silver screen.

Ted Bundy = the most charming guy in America? Doesn't sound like that much of an achievement, really.

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Good website, though.

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