Red Dwarf Returns, and Ends

I've been thinking a lot about Red Dwarf a lot lately. Mostly because I have a bunch of the episodes archived on a media server I've been trying to stream to my XBOX 360 lately... but that's a story for another article sometime.

Regardless, I was thinking that Red Dwarf must surely be dead now. Any promise of another season seems so empty. The first season was back in 1988, and it took them 11 years to make just 52 episodes. The last new material is almost 10 years old now. The writing duo of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor split up years ago. So imagine my surprise when I found out today that not only is the show coming back, but that they'll actually be closing the story out.

Yes it's just two episodes instead of the typical six episode series, but it's still written by one-half of the original writers. And honestly, if they had made a full six episodes, five of them would have probably been lame. So good move making only two.

The whole cast is supposed to return: Lister, Rimmer, Kryten & the Cat. But there's no word of Kristine Kochanski or Holly. Anyway, it's airing in the BBC... so unless you plan on pirating the video this Easter I wouldn't expect to see it in the US for another year or so.