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Red Dwarf

October 2024

  • Red Dwarf cast in costume

    Roll up, smegheads! It’s the ultimate Red Dwarf quiz

    From hologram destruction techniques to the very point of existence itself: how good is your knowledge of the sci-fi comedy classic?

July 2024

  • Craig Charles wearing a black suit and tie, glasses and a black scarf with white spots, against a pink background

    The Q&A
    Craig Charles: ‘I have kicked all sorts of mood-altering substances. The only vice I’ve not been able to kick is smoking’

    The actor and DJ on vodka kisses, giving up drugs, and why it’s not good to pretend you own a Rolls-Royce

November 2023

  • Jane Horrocks.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Jane Horrocks

    Now is your chance to find out how to sing like Julie Garland, deal with being Edina Monsoon’s PA and play a critically acclaimed chicken

October 2022

  • Emma Relph and John Duttine in The Day of the Triffids.

    From the Triffids to Blake’s 7 and Ghostwatch: the BBC’s greatest cult classics

    The Beeb has seemingly spent a century trying to scar the nation. Here are its most influential – and most terrifying – cult hits so far

March 2022

  • Ron Pember, pictured in The Flaxton Boys, was said to have been ‘born to play slightly shady roles’.

    Only Fools and Horses actor Ron Pember dies aged 87

    Tributes paid to ‘legend’ Secret Army star who was a staple of 1970s and 1980s television dramas

November 2021

  • Craig Charles: ‘I’ve got a peculiarly good memory for words.’

    Honest playlist
    ‘My karaoke go-to? Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson’: Craig Charles’s honest playlist

    The Red Dwarf star and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter gets nostalgic about the Bay City Rollers – and recommends music to get a party started

November 2020

  • Craig Charles: ‘Like most young working-class men I handled success badly. Everything just came so fast.’

    Craig Charles: 'This is my midlife crisis – I should have just bought a Porsche!'

    The Red Dwarf star and radio DJ had the pandemic blues – so he decided to row his way out of them. He talks about the reality show Don’t Rock the Boat and his earlier highs and lows, from £200,000 cheques to tabloid exposés

October 2020

  • Members of the Eagles, pictured in 1976.

    Brief letters
    Quoting the Eagles doesn’t check out

    Brief letters: Probability lessons | Hotel California | Red Dwarf alert | Masks | Catkins | Snollygoster

September 2020

  • Ben Bailey-Smith, AKA Doc Brown

    Remote controller
    Ben Bailey Smith: 'I'm still angry about Bake Off 2017'

    The actor, comic and rapper on his TV loves and hates, from the surfeit of competition shows to Sean Lock and Benedict Wong’s forgotten comedy 15 Storeys High

April 2020

  • Craig Charles as Dave Lister, Robert Llewellyn as Kryten, Danny John-Jules as The Cat and Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer.

    TV review
    Red Dwarf: The Promised Land review – megalomaniac cats are out for revenge

  • Red Dwarf: The Promised Land Picture shows: Danny John-Jules as The Cat, Robert Llewellyn as Kryten, Chris Barrie as Rimmer, Craig Charles as Lister

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: escape into deep space with the Red Dwarf crew

March 2020

  • The cast of Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, from left: Danny John-Jules as Cat, Robert Llewellyn as Kryten, Chris Barrie as Rimmer and Craig Charles as Lister.

    Red Dwarf is 'bastion of TV diversity', says Danny John-Jules

    Actor who stars as Cat says sci-fi series, which debuted 32 years ago, was ahead of its time

March 2019

  • Sorry, Alan Rickman, it’s a no … clockwise from top left, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Chris Barrie and Craig Charles.

    How we made
    How we made Red Dwarf

    ‘The BBC’s head of comedy said it would only work if there was a sofa. We said spaceships don’t have sofas – and he said it won’t work then’

October 2017

  • Robin Williams in Mork & Mindy; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Robert Webb and David Mitchell in Back

    Sound and vision
    This week’s best TV: pondering the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    The graffiti artist turned painter’s short but prolific career is explored, while Louis Theroux investigates the grim reality of heroin use in the US

September 2017

  • Composite showing Larry David, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Clarke Peters and Lisa Simpson

    Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models

  • Danny John-Jules as Cat, Robert Llewellyn as Kryten, Craig Charles as Lister and Chris Barrie as Rimmer

    Jump the shark
    When good TV goes bad: how Red Dwarf’s star faded

September 2016

  • ‘I’ve known these guys longer than I’ve known my wife’ … the boys from the Dwarf reunite.

    28 years a smeghead: back in deep space with the Red Dwarf crew

    Bazookoids at the ready! Head behind-the-scenes as Lister, Rimmer and co buckle up for another ride in Starbug. Will the strap-on dreads survive the trip?

January 2016

  • Withnail and I

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best fictional houseshares

    Last week we brought you our 10 best fictional houseshares. Here, we present your thoughts on the fabulous flatmates that should have made the list

November 2015

  • Deep-space sitcom … Kryten, Cat, Lister and Rimmer in Red Dwarf. Photograph: Tony Russell/BBC

    Your next box set
    Red Dwarf box set: ‘The jokes zing by like meteorites’

    In space, everyone can hear you squabble: scouse astronaut Lister wakes up 3 million years hence with a neurotic, underpants-ironing hologram for company ...

September 2015

  • Craig Charles at home in Cheshire.

    Craig Charles: ‘I’m 51, I shouldn’t be getting disco injuries!’

    The death of Craig Charles’s brother made him rethink life. So next month he leaves Corrie, films a new series of Red Dwarf and a version of one of his poems – and then there’s his DJing
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