The latest installment in the Red Dwarf series is Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, premiering today on BritBox, and the cast and creator were on hand at Comic-Con@Home to give fans a peek at the special, and answer a few questions!
The exclusives clips (there are two of them!) start at 1:29, so start there if you’re all about that footage. The panel features creator Doug Naylor, Craig Charles (Dave Lister), Robert Llewellyn (Kryten), and Chris Barrie (Rimmer), as they talk about what it was like to reunite for another story, and how it feels to still be making Red Dwarf over three decades from where they began.
In terms of this story, Naylor admitted that the concept of the special came from a question that harkened all the way back to the first season, being “what happened to the cat people, where did they go? We’ve never really explored that.”
There’s a lot more to enjoy on the panel, so click on the video for more. If you want to watch Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, you’ll have to pick up a BritBox subscription, or watch it on ITV!
This actually premiered in the UK on Dave back in April. Not sure what it’s got to do with ITV?
@1: ITV and the BBC are partners in BritBox, so I guess that’s where the confusion arose. In the UK it airs on the cable/satellite channel Dave, which is owned by UKTV, a commercial arm of the BBC.
It’s also not very good. Red Dwarf‘s quality level has been highly variable ever since Rob Grant left in Season 6 (in 1993!) but the last three seasons had been generally okay, if patchy. This was a big drop in quality, maybe two or three decent laughs in 90 minutes. I don’t think Dwarf benefits from the long-run format.
@2: I’m not entirely sure what UKTV is, but they seem to show old ITV shows as well as old BBC ones, so I don’t think it’s as simple as it being owned by the BBC. (Or is it one of the old ITV franchises that’s a partner in it?)
Anyway, I did see it when it was shown in the UK and actually enjoyed it quite a lot. Wouldn’t say it’s the best thing ever or anything, but more than two or three decent laughs and some quite touching moments.