Retrospective documentary series Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years, has been a huge success delivering strong ratings for Dave, and overall it’s been a format that can clearly be enjoyed by both fans and casual viewers alike. As well as the mother show being the most viewed show on […]
Red Dwarf: The Promised Land took the series’ production values to a new level in terms of the look, effects and, perhaps most significantly, the music. With the length of a movie to play with, Red Dwarf needed a cinematic score to accompany the action. Award-winning media composer Paul Farrer […]
The new artwork for Red Dwarf: The Promised Land – coming soon to Dave – was released earlier this week, which added some much needed brightness to what’s been an… interesting week. We loved it so much, we wanted to find out more about how it was made so we […]
It was the first new Red Dwarf recording of the decade and the boys got the 2020s off to a roaring start with a really enjoyable – if slightly long – recording session. As has become customary at these Pinewood shows, the crowd – mostly comprised of people in black […]
It’s Red Dwarf’s 30th anniversary year and while this event wasn’t marked by a new series of the show, or even some kind of TV special, there’s a far more important date in the Red Dwarf calendar – it’s only Dimension Jump XX, the 20th edition of the dedicated convention […]
The visuals in Red Dwarf XII were among the most striking for many a series. From the nostalgic props of Skipper to the Soviet inspired posters from Mechocracy, there are few shows that provide such a variety of challenges to the art department. Series XII graphic designer Matthew Clark is […]
Have you ever found yourself wondering how the Radio Times described Red Dwarf when first broadcast? Well wonder no more as, with a little help from BBC Genome, Gazpacho Soup is here to bring you this vital information. As with many online tools, this relies on community contributions to remain […]
Thirty years. For many fans of Red Dwarf, it’s longer than they’ve been alive. But a big anniversary of course shouldn’t pass without being marked in some manner. The obvious thing to do would be to go back to the very first episode, but as we already did exactly this […]
For Red Dwarf’s 30th anniversary, we’re entering into the same spirit of celebration as the 10th anniversary. But after 3 decades, what new way can we re-evaluate the show’s debut episode? Why by remastering 1997’s Re-Mastered version of The End of course! We’ve followed the same techniques employed in that […]
Novelisations were once a lifeline method of continuing to enjoy a film or television programme long after you had initially viewed it. For certain franchises, these could take on a life of their own. Certainly this was the case with lines such as the Target novelisations of Doctor Who serials, and […]