Can I get a WOOT WOOT...

Throw you're hands in the air like you just don't care -- except you do or at least I do. Look whose getting the band back together.

Rimmer, Lister, Cat, and Kryton are getting ready to film a brand new season of Red Dwarf to air in 2012. It's brilliant and going to be a smegging good time. Here are the boys in a more recognizable incarnation:

Red Dwarf was one of the funniest British comedies to come out of the 1980s. It was right up there with Blackadder and that is saying something. Although RD was a little more low brow, some of the jokes would have me rolling, you haven't seen anything until you've seen someone attacked by a rabid sausage. I loved the interactions between all the actors, and Rimmer's Felix to Lister's Oscar were a joy to behold.

Rimmer: What's this? Learning drugs? They're illegal, matey! I'm afraid you're in very serious, grave, deep trouble, Lister. Where did you get them? I want names, I want places, I want dates.

Lister: Arnold Rimmer, his locker, this morning.

As an added bonus the dialogue was extremely quotable especially Cat's. The show takes place with Lister as the center waking up from being in stasis for 3 million years after the entire crew was killed by a radiation leak. Red Dwarf is the name of the ship he is traveling on and his only companions are the man he hates most, a holographic Rimmer and Cat, who has evolved from Lister's cat. Kryten the service mechanoid joins in later seasons and is a welcome addition and quite the comic foil. The later seasons suffer in comparison to the earlier ones and when Chris Barrie (Rimmer) left the show for a while it lost an integral part of what made it great but it was always funny.

If you have never seen it, all the episodes are available to stream on Netflix. If you have seen it, you are probably as excited as I am to hear this news. Thanks to Justine for bringing this to my attention.