There are faint murmurings that Red Dwarf could indeed be returning for a tenth series to be aired on Dave, the channel which brought us the fairly poor mini-series Back To Earth earlier this year.
Whilst nothing has yet been confirmed, fans were excited to read this on the Twitter feed of Robert Llewellyn, who plays Kryten in the sci-fi comedy:
Series 10 of Red Dwarf announcement just been made at DJ 09. To clarify the scripts have been commissioned, wont be filming til 2010
However, Llewellyn very quickly clarified his comments:
Want to re-state that UKTV, aka Dave have commissioned Doug Naylor to write scripts, still a long way to go before it’s all official
Whilst this apparently hasn’t been confirmed or denied by Dave, it seems fairly unlikely that Llewellyn would be so specific unless there was some truth behind it, so it’s probably fair to assume that Doug Naylor is indeed writing scripts for a new series. Frankly, I’m not sure whether to be happy about this news or not. Yes, I’m one of those Red Dwarf fans who moans and complains that the earlier series were far better than the later ones. I just hope that if series 10 does come to fruition it’s a little less gimicky than the painfully self-referential Back To Earth.
In case you’ve somehow never encountered Red Dwarf, here’s a clip from back in the good old days of 1992, and the fifth series episode “Quarantine”.
Yay, Red Dwarf! This immediately transports me back to the kitchen of my first student housing. Those were great moments and great tv.