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Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise, the primary form of which comprises eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999, and which has achieved a global cult following. It was created and originally written by Grant Naylor (a so-called 'gestalt entity', in reality a collective pseudonym for the writing duo Rob Grant and Doug Naylor). The show had its origins in a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, in the mid-1980s BBC Radio 4 comedy show Son Of Cliché, also scripted by Grant and Naylor. In addition to the Red Dwarf television series, there have also been four bestselling novels, two pilot episodes for an American version of the show, and a significant number of tie-in books, magazines and other merchandise.
Despite the pastiche of science fiction used as a backdrop, Red Dwarf is primarily a character driven comedy, with many off-the-wall science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. For example, in the early series, a recurring source of comedy was the "odd couple" relationship between Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer, the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other but are trapped together deep in space.
Red Dwarf's highest accolade came in 1994, when an episode from the sixth series (Gunmen of the Apocalypse) won an International Emmy Award in the Popular Arts category. The show also won Best BBC Comedy series at the British Comedy Awards during the same year, and attracted its highest ratings — of over eight million viewers — by the eighth series in 1999. In a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's best sitcom the show was voted 18th out of 100 nominations.
The current status of the show remains uncertain, as Doug Naylor (now in sole control of the franchise following the departure of Rob Grant in 1995) is committed to writing and producing a feature film version of the sitcom. Naylor has also stated that he hopes one day to tie up the cliffhanger upon which the eighth series ended, perhaps with a one-off, feature-length television special although production of a ninth series has not been ruled out, depending on the success of the feature film.
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- Review: Norman Lovett And Hattie Hayridge, Old Joint Stock Theatre
- NORMAN Lovett and Hatty Hayridge may well be more commonly known as the two Hollies from BBC Two's cult sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, but on Tuesday night they ...
- Red Dwarf returns!
- All hail Dave - the TV channel has just forked out for four special episodes of Red Dwarf...! Back when we spoke to Danny John Jules earlier this year, ...
- Smegtastic! Red Dwarf returns to small screen with new episodes
- In celebration of the 21st anniversary of cult sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf, creator Doug Naylor has announced that TV's favourite spaced out smeg heads ...
- Red Dwarf, Cleese head up Dave's autumn
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- The official website of Red Dwarf, the cult science-fiction comedy show
- BBC - Comedy - Red Dwarf
- Dave Lister is the last human being in the universe. A lowly technician on the mining ship Red Dwarf, he wakes up one day to find that the rest of the crew have been killed by a radiation leak. He has been in stasis for three million years.
- "Red Dwarf" (1988)
- Red Dwarf on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
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- Official Red Dwarf Fan Club Home Page
- The Official Red Dwarf Fan Club
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