Red Dwarf to return at Easter

Red Dwarf to return at Easter
Red Dwarf to return at Easter (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Cult comedy Red Dwarf will come back to Earth at Easter - 21 years after the sci-fi hit first blasted onto our screens. Written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth reunites Chris Barrie as Rimmer, Craig Charles as Lister, Danny John-Jules as Cat and Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. The brand-new two-part series will kick start a Red Dwarf Easter weekend from Good Friday on TV channel Dave. This will be followed by Red Dwarf: Unplugged, a "no holds barred" episode with no sets, no effects - and no autocue. The weekend will climax with Red Dwarf: The Making Of Back To Earth, a behind-the-scenes special from the new production. Dave will reveal news snippets from the production at joindave.co.uk. Red Dwarf is Dave's biggest commission yet and its first foray into scripted comedy. The offbeat series, set in outer space, has enjoyed phenomenal success since it first aired in 1988 on BBC2, running for 52 episodes. More than eight million viewers tuned in for series eight and the series has sold 7.25 million DVDs and videos worldwide. It has been broadcast in some 25 territories worldwide and won International Emmy and British Comedy Awards.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.