Just reading about this in the Radio Times for next week as Nick Frost is in it and noticed Stephen Mangan name in the cast list :)

Umm it's on Thursday 12 July at 9.30 pm, BBC2 :eehee

Stephen Mangan guest-stars as dashing commander of space-o-batics team the Green Javelins.

CLICK ME How did I miss the first series :o It's got Patersen Joseph (shiny shiney Lyndon) in it as well :)

Is SM in just the first ep of this series?

I doubt I'll be able to see it as I'm away then but I'll see. *hopes*

Yup he's a guest star.

It says

Henderson is invited to join the top space-o-batics team (i.e. the Red Arrows in rockets), but the team captain, who once had a fling with Teal, doesn't make it an easy ride.

SM plays Mason the dashing commander of space-o-batics team the Green Javelins :)

I've been watching the clips from the last series :lol: very silly, but appeals to my sense of humour :eehee

My evil TV guide never said Stephen was in it. Just Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon!

Still, now im so so watching it!

ooo nick frost, stephen and kevin!!

WOO

yaaaay oh i LOVE kevin eldon!!

found a few reviews/comments about this:

from the sunday times:
Hyperdrive (Wednesday, BBC Two, 10pm) poses the question: if you were a scriptwriter, would you want to write “the new Red Dwarf?” On the one hand, the writers of the original Red Dwarf — Doug Naylor and Rob Grant — have become rich beyond their wildest dreams; primarily from the “Let’s Get the Smeg Out of Here” T-shirt millions. Also, in the event of their wealthy, sybaritic lifestyles catching up with them, they could easily commandeer the healthy internal organs of an untouched virgin acolyte from virtually any IT department in Britain. To write the new Red Dwarf would be to live as a god. On the other hand, you would be the writer of the new Red Dwarf.

Thankfully, Hyperdrive — rogues and slobs aboard an unimportant spaceship, adrift in the sitcom universe — circumnavigates this problem by being much better than Red Dwarf. It turns out that this is a fairly easy thing to do: don’t employ Chris Barrie or Craig Charles, write a very funny script, give a role to Kevin Eldon, don’t call the project Red Dwarf, and refrain from using the word “smeg”



and in culture:

Hyperdrive (BBC2, 9.30pm)
The huge transatlantic sucess of red dwarf showed that sci-fi and comedy can be a winning formula, which might explain why this fitfully amusing descendant is back for a second year.
The year is 2152 and the tourist-board spaceship HMS Camden Lock roams the universe encouraging aliens to invest in Britain ("home to Stonehenge and the Ben Nevis escalator"). The vessel is commanded by cuddly Michael Henderson (Nick Frost of Spaced fame), who gamely tries to keep his inept crew focused. First Officer York (Kevin Eldon) is a borderline psycopath, busy making clones of himself from "scabs and other emissions", while Diplomatic Officer Teal (Miranda Hart) seems ti be more concerned about her nonexistant love life. Tonight's episode guest stars Steven Mangan as an intergalactic lothario who stands between Henderson and a coveted place in the Green Javelins "space-o-batics" team. He also carris a torch for Teal.
Enhanced by eye-catching set design and judicious use of CGI, Hyperdrive is never less than watchable, but the gags are laboured. That said, Red Dwarf took three seasons to establish itself, so there is hope yet.

radio times says:
The year is 2151 and British business has gone intergalactic in this sci-fi sitcom. Commander Michael Henderson (Nick Frost: Spaced, Shaun of the Dead) and the crew of spaceship HMS Camden Lock scour the universe in search of alien companies willing to relocate to the Peterborough Enterprise Zone, and perhaps take their holidays in the Lake District. Can the hapless crew and their hopeless captain manage to avoid a hideous death at the hands of an alien race - and hit their sales targets?

heheh wicked thanks for the reviews it sounds ace :)

Ah bollocks i just typed many words before accidentally deleting them with my elbow.

Anyway STEPHEN SANG. Who cares that its not as good as Red Dwarf or that Miranda Hart makes me want to stab myself with a soup spoon when you can hear musical talent like that!

:wub:

Why was it only a guest appearance? :(

I forgot this was on *gives herself a slap* but managed to see the last 12 minutes or so. Loved the baked bean on Toast, and rowing down the River Lee :lol: and SM's hair :lol: ohh and singing and kissing all at the same time :lol:

I like this programme. Starts saving up for the double DVD that's coming out soon B)

Oh for .........!!!

Forgot!!! Bloody ahh!!! I blame Nine/Rose Ten/Rose Smut..it mess with my brain and i forget the things i had planned for the day! Euh!

The giant bean! :lol: i forgot about that. I loves the bean.

Ha! When he tried to drown himself - 'damn realistic simulations'

it's really good. was out but just watched it now. i saw the first series and have been waiting for the next series to be on. for anyone who did see the first series it shows thats they have given them a larger budget than before haha. but was happyily serprised to see stephan. the hair makes him look like princess layer. but sadly it is only a small apearance but hoping to see ur wonderful stephan in more soon. :rolleyes:

ahahaha made me laugh!
his hair ahahaha.
THE BEAN!

i coudn't stop smiling while watching this last night.

Steve was at his best in this and I love him.

And he sang. And his hair was niiiice :) (I'm weird, get over it)

and I'm now sad I didn't tape this. :(

Was very very funny.

When he tried to drown himself in the River Lee. :roflmao

wahey this is on youtube, i forgot to tape it, its really good, i think the drowning bit is really funny, how anyone could be fooled by those images though beats me! shame that he was only a guest, any one else good turning up in it?

oooh it would be wicked if simon pegg was in an episode!

It was repeated on teh telly last night!! I missed the first 10 or so minutes byt still :thud

Is it me or was he looking hotter than usual!! And in a uniform...whats he trying to do to me! And ahhh he sang....*Breaths* .... hehe it was funny but sad when he went all mad, and then denied it..GUH!! :wub:

I watched this last night and thought it was OK but, tbh, not all that up to much. :ph43r: That'll be because I don't like sci-fi and never really like anything on first viewing so there is chance for it to grow on me but if SM isn't in it again, I doubt I'll be all that willing to give it a go in the future. Sowwy. :blush

There were bits I liked, particularly the attempted drowing and the "Don't stop singing" while they kissed. :lol: Obviously, Stephen looked like sex on legs so it was far from a waste of half an hour of my time :wub: but, nah, not really my cup of tea (so far, anyway).