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Date: 2005-04-11 05:08 pm (UTC)The reef upon which the show seemed to founder was (according to whichever of Grant or Naylor they were interviewing) the processes of casting, which in the US produced a lily white cast of good-looking guys (except that they were going to use the same actor for Kryton) and script-writing, which involved a lot of writers getting input.
Interestingly, one of the scriptwriting clans that was brought in was from THE SIMPSONS. I would be very curious if any of them later worked on FUTURAMA, which isn't much like RD but which could be said to have similarities if you squint at it: low status characters, many ethnic, who work in space. Lead character is a refugee from a past era, who got to the future through a screw-up.
Hmmm. If Fry is Lister, who is Rimmer? Leelah? And does that make Bender the Cat?