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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Militant’s Real History: In Reply to Ted Grant and Rob Sewell
Grant was not hesitant in using this to show the false method of the ISFI leadership.
Grant was so convinced that the coup would succeed that, as the TV reports came through on the collapse of the coup on Wednesday 21 August, he denounced them as "lies" and "bourgeois propaganda".
Grant argued that the internal position of the Labour Party had not fundamentally changed: "In the 1950s, the internal regime was marked by witch-hunts against the Bevanite left, bans and proscriptions, the repeated closure of the Labour youth organisation".
www.marxist.net /grantreply/ch1.htm   (9796 words)

  
 Doug Naylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With Rob Grant he worked on Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, and The 10 Percenters.
After the sixth series of Red Dwarf, Rob Grant left Naylor to write Red Dwarf on his own.
Naylor has since written the seventh and eighth series of the show, mostly on his own, but some episodes were co-written with such writers as Paul Alexander and Kim Fuller.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doug_Naylor   (187 words)

  
 Hawkida.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rob goes on to explain that although it is a comedy, it isn't a spoof, but rather a creation in its own right.
Rob admits that he feels the programme is unlikely to be viewed favourably by the broadcasting world as it looks to be somewhat expensive.
I ask Rob his opinion on a comment people were making after reading Last Human, to the effect of "Rob's the funny one and Doug's the science fiction one." Rob splutters slightly before recovering enough to answer.
www.hawkida.com /view.php?recordid=44   (2490 words)

  
 DM: Grant take a look at hypocrisy
All of the names that Rob H. dropped in his column were men of enormous spiritual and moral stature.
Rob H. says that the religious right is "a natural extension of" the civil rights movements here and in South Africa.
Rob H. read this to mean that he believed in a colorblind society.
www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/96/9606/960626/960626ED3grant.html   (1139 words)

  
 Three Of The Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ROB: He had one sequence, the sequence was he flipped open his thumb and lit a cigarette, a cigar for Craig who was sitting in the jacuzzi.
ROB: And he just saw the script and he thought we'd, you know half way through it he thought we'd done a real flanker and we were completely changing the whole idea and setting it on this dystopian Earth.
ROB: But it was such a wing and a prayer because if there'd been a cloud in the sky, and this was in, you know, I think November or something, it was ridiculously late in the year.
www.geocities.com /janvogels/3ob.html   (10686 words)

  
 The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more...
Rob Grant is best known as one of the co-creators (with Doug Naylor) of BBC's classic comedy series Red Dwarf.
Since leaving the show, Rob has turned his comic talents to novel-writing, and his latest release, Incompetence - a satire on beaureacracy, politics and just about anything else that ticks Rob Grant off - was released at the end of 2003.
Rob Grant's latest novel, Incompetence, was published in the UK at the end of 2003 by Gollancz, and is currently available from all good SF retailers, and online booksellers such as Amazon.co.uk.
www.thealienonline.net /interviews/robgrant_jan04.asp?tid=3&scid=24&iid=2150   (1844 words)

  
 Rob Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With Doug Naylor he worked on radio programs such as Cliché and Son of Cliché, and TV programs such as Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, The 10 Percenters and various Jasper Carrott projects.
Grant left Red Dwarf after the sixth series, saying he wished to "have more on my tombstone than Red Dwarf".
He has since written 2 TV series, Dark Ages and The Strangerers, and has written four solo books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rob_Grant   (212 words)

  
 A.R.E./N.Y.C. Newsletter Article: Rob Grant,
As Rob says, his purpose in conducting this seminar is twofold.
Communicating with the "dead," Rob says, does requires a "sixth sense." But it is something we all possess.
Clearly, Rob Grant's workshop on "death" represents a unique opportunity for a deeper understanding of the continuity of life.
www.mindspring.com /~areofnyc/areofnyc/opendoor/00winter/Grant.htm   (300 words)

  
 Grant Naylor - Red Dwarf, Humourous Science Fiction
Grant Naylor is the writing name for the two English authors Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
People in the US even tried to make a duplicate of the series, with other actors, but the project was (luckily) abandoned after a couple of pilots.
Together Robert Grant and Doug Naylor wrote the books "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" (1989) and "Better Than Life" (1990), that is slighlty different compared to the tv-series.
www.edlin.org /sf/eng/humour/grantnaylor.html   (401 words)

  
 KAET: HORIZON: public affairs program: transcripts: January 18, 2005
Rob Melnick is the director of the Morrison institute.
Rob, I think we should return to this point.
Rob, one of the problems this kind of study presents, there's a ton of studies that indicates there's no real direct correlation necessarily between education and spending and education outcome.
www.kaet.asu.edu /horizon/transcripts/2005/january/jan18_2005.htm   (3631 words)

  
 The Strangerers FQA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rob - Until we have a firm terran show date, or a second season to support it, there are no firm plans to go video.
Rob - Still no word yet, but there is a special edition in existence: 2 feature-length re-cuts of the original material, with some previously unseen footage.
Rob -They have a symbiotic relationship with the advanced insect life on their planet - you weed my patch, I'll nestle your egg hoard.
www.thestrangerers.co.uk /fqa.htm   (1486 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rob wants to sleep, so I'm off for a walk on the bike path (Seattle Marathon course) It's hot, 85F.
Rob's up & walking in 11 minutes, last yr was in there for 17 minutes.
Rob runs right through the 97 mile station, has less than 30 minutes to break 26hrs.
www.ultrarunner.net /ccc100report02rg.html   (1219 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
R Grant :Kingfan: She is better than 4 d and I have only ever slept with her mother.
R Grant :Strangeres was shot on super 16 and a wide screen version exists.
R Grant :poisonblade: Somewhere in the Galaxy J Docherty :Rob grant's next public appearance will be at his local Thresure WIne store fifi :Who created the music to the Strangerers J Docherty :The theme tune is very reminscent to the Third man film/harry lime tune.
www.thestrangerers.co.uk /chat.txt   (2496 words)

  
 Red Dwarf: Backwards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It should be; Grant and Naylor are experienced humourists, having worked on Spitting Image amongst other things.
Grant’s intelligent writing shines here: when Naylor invents irrational scenarios such as a planet with a habitable ocean underneath a layer of molten lava, created by an engineered virus, Grant displays detailed knowledge of feline penile anatomy.
Grant explores the (quite genuine) theory that time need not flow in one particular dimension, and what it would be like for "forwards" beings to live in a "backwards" world.
members.aol.com /liamproven/writing/sf/GRANT.HTM   (447 words)

  
 red dwarf -
BBC Books were originally lined up to publish, but Rob and Doug - publishing under their gestalt name of Grant Naylor - wanted to avoid the impression that the book was just a novelisation of the TV scripts.
It was written in the usual Grant Naylor way - with Rob at the keyboard and Doug right behind, not a word going down until both had agreed on it.
In 1993 Rob and Doug had begun nibbling around the edges of a novel that went under the title of The Last Human.
www.freewebs.com /red_dwarf2/reddwarfthenovels.htm   (3427 words)

  
 Rob Grant's Colony. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
Little did he realise that he would end up stranded on a spaceship, generations later, with the virtually psychotic descendants of the original crew and being pursued by a murderous cyborg.
Colony is Rob Grant's first non-Red Dwarf novel and, as such, it shares a number of similarities with the TV series.
The main character accidentally finds himself on a deep space mission and, after receiving a mysterious invitation he wakes up and finds that ten generations have passed and he definitely not quite the man he used to be.
www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/g/grantrob/colony.html   (311 words)

  
 The White Hole - Red Dwarf Interviews >> Rob Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since the split of the writing partnership of Grant Naylor, Rob Grant has most certainly been the quiter of the two.
The sad absence of Rob from the DVD's has been rectified in small amount thanks to his recent appearance on Comedy Connections and now Rob has kindly agreed to an interview with the White Hole, talking about the past present anf future of his career.
This will not be the last you hear from Rob Grant on this site as some extra questions about Rob and Doug's early radio series 'Wrinkles' will be used in a forthcoming feature on the oft forgotten radio show.
www.whitehole-reddwarf.co.uk /interviews/interview_robgrant.php   (1575 words)

  
 Ashwaubenon High School Boys Track
Grant Haugan was a finalist in the Triple Jump shattering the old school record w/a jump of 44'3 1/2".
Grant Haugan set a new meet record in Triple Jump with a jump of 41-11.
Bronze medals went to: Grant Haugan in the 400 and the mile relay team of Jim Elder, Rob Taylor, Cory Klover and Haugan; Brandon Dehn was our other meet champ in the High Hurdles.
www.ashwaubenon.k12.wi.us /HS/Athletics/btrack   (2200 words)

  
 The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant entertained an Edinburgh audience with a very welcome return visit on Thursday evening, reading from his new novel Incompetence.
Rob was asked if he 'was attempting to secure a place for himself in the next series of Grumpy Old Men by railing against so many things that annoyed him' but he wouldn’t quite commit himself although he did admit that some of his rants against bureaucracy and general stupidity were extremely therapeutic.
On fine form Rob entertained us with a mixture of humorous and noirish detective tales (humorous noir - a new genre?) and tantalised us all by mentioning that his next project was a collaboration with the wonderful British animators Aardman, home to Wallace and Gromit amongst other award winning characters.
www.thealienonline.net /ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=11&iid=2159   (242 words)

  
 Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Grant Naylor" is the pseudonym of UK writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
Rob Grant and Doug Naylor wrote the first six series together.
Grant quit, and Naylor wrote the next two series of Red Dwarf alone or with new co-writers such as Paul Alexander.
members.aol.com /kapeter/naylor.htm   (582 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Colony: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Having seen the Strangerers on Sky I wondered if Rob Grant had lost his sense of humour but this book proves he hasn't lost his touch.
The ending is surprisingly sentimental considering the dark tense nature of the rest of the book and doesn't blend in as well as it could, although it does open up lots of possibilities for future novels.
The book is a masterpeice of comedy and I just hope that Rob Grant can do as well adding another part to the saga with Colony II.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140289755   (944 words)

  
 BBC - Wiltshire - Films - Interview with Rob Grant
Rob Grant - co-writer on six series of cult show Red Dwarf recently dropped into the BBC Radio Swindon studios to promote his new novel.
Rob Grant, one half of the writing duo behind popular BBC2 sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf has just released his latest novel 'Incompetence'.
It is set in the near future where the common philosophy is that no one can be sacked from their job for being useless at it.
www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/entertainment/films_and_tv/robgrant.shtml   (201 words)

  
 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the one hand, Grant, the creator of Red Dwarf, is no doubt sharp and funny and often silly, but given the context of the novel, a comic sleuth story, it doesn’t even hold a candle to, say, Douglas Adams’ two Dirk Gently novels, or Martin Scott’s excellent Thraxas stories.
Certainly many of Grant’s observations are very funny indeed, but he tends to labor many a moment to the point where the joyful and humorous aspects just disappear under the sheer volume of gags - and it’s often the same gag repeated ad nauseam.
It may be that Grant wants some sort of reaction to this from his readers, but other than making me feel queasy, the joke simply palls long before the end of the chapter.
www.sfrevu.com /ISSUES/2003/0312/Incompetence/Review.htm   (639 words)

  
 A.R.E./N.Y.C. Workshop: Universe of Worlds; Exploring the frontiers of Life after Death
In Universe of Worlds, Rob Grant presents a detailed picture of the interrelationship between the seen and unseen worlds based upon accounts by well-documented seers including Edgar Cayce, Arthur Ford, Eileen Garrett, Alice Bailey and C. Leadbeater.
Previously a military journalist and now a hospice case worker, Rob resides in Virginia Beach, Va., and conducts popular workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Rob Grant's best-selling books will be available at this workshop.
www.mindspring.com /~areofnyc/areofnyc/calendar/events03/grant_r.htm   (383 words)

  
 This Just In...News from The Agony Column
Grant wrote most of the Red Dwarf episodes and has two, no three novels to his name.
Harry Salt is a detective in Grant's brave -- no, utterly chicken-shit -- new world saddled with the curse of competence.
Now, it looks as if Rob Grant is ready to make the leap.
trashotron.com /agony/news/2004/01-19-04.htm   (3662 words)

  
 Incompetence by Rob Grant
It set in a Europe that has already decided that cucumbers must be straight, Cadbury chocolate is a 'chocolate flavoured' product and will soon be labelling yoghurt as a 'fermented milk drink' unless it is from Bulgaria.
Grant will find many readers who will share his despair of a place where the trains can only run on time if they don't pick up any passengers.
This book is real 'grumpy old git' territory and possibly some of the bile will be lost on a younger generation that take so much of this for granted.
www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2003/nz7113.php   (438 words)

  
 Incompetence - Rob Grant - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Incompetence - Rob Grant : My kinda work environment
Incompetence - Rob Grant : Writer in "can't think of a title" shocker.
Cardew Vascular is on his way to a meeting in Rome, arranged by a man called Dick Klingferm.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/incompetence-rob-grant   (254 words)

  
 Review - Colony by Rob Grant
This is Rob Grant's first novel since Backwards and has nothing to do with Red Dwarf.
We first meet the main character of this story, Eddie O'Hare, in desperate straits trying to win back mob money lost by his computer…one minute it was there, snug in the bank, next the account reads zero and it's Eddie's neck on the line.
A very good second novel (if you don't include the joint ones with Doug Naylor) and one that moves Rob Grant away from Red Dwarf, although you will sometimes recognise a 'Dwarfism'.
www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/GrantRob/Colony/ColonyReview.htm   (387 words)

  
 Sailor live in Newbury 06/04/2002
Rob, Phil and Grant during "The Old Nickelodeon Sound"
Rob leads "La Cumbia" snake around the building, complete with his accordion
Phil and Grant on the golf course earlier in the day...
www.sailor-marinero.com /Newbury06042002.htm   (403 words)

  
 Book Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Awakening from a drunken spree in a London pub to find himself on one of Saturn's moons, Lister joins the Space Corps and boards the Red Dwarf, determined to return to Earth.
When Holly, the Red Dwarf's computer, suddenly goes dumb, David Lister, the holographic Arnold Rimmer, Cat, and Kryten, the cleaning robot, become trapped in a game called ""Better Than Life,"" and it is up to a talking Toaster to save them all.
He is joined by a hologram, a senile computer, a deranged mechanoid and the best dressed entity "Cat" abroad the Red Dwarf.
members.shaw.ca /reddwarf/booklinks.htm   (1242 words)

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