Almost twenty five years after it first aired a new series of cult sci fi series Red Dwarf hits UK tv channel Dave in just under a month.
After a mixed reception to the crews most recent outing in the three part special "back to earth" it became clear that fans still loved the show but weren't overly keen on the convoluted and at times unfunny story.
Dave decided to listen to the fans and give the Red Dwarf crew a full series now set back aboard the ship fans have come to know and love rather than on earth. The crew are understandably older, it has been quarter of a century after all, but sneak peeks and trailers show their funny bones are clearly still very much intact.Craig Charles, who plays everyones favourite slob Dave Lister, sums up the new series in an interview with Bleeding Cool:
"We’ve stopped being an action adventure series and gone back to being more of a sitcom. Back To Earth looked fantastic and was very clever but it wasn’t as funny as it could have been, choosing to be more of an emotional journey. We’re now back to being four clowns in a room, each trying to be funnier than the next man. We’re still 3 million years into deep space, looking for a way home and really hot curry. But now it’s a bit more like Grumpy Old Men".
Red Dwarf X airs on Dave at 9 pm on the fourth of October.
