Grant made the announcement during the BFI\u2019s Comedy Time Travel Special, which took place as part of the institute\u2019s programme Destination Time Travel: Playing with Time in Film and TV.<\/p>\n
Exactly what form the prequel will take, and whether it will be a novel or in some other format, is currently unconfirmed, but RadioTimes.com<\/a> did catch up with Grant exclusively about the project.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI can\u2019t say too much, but it\u2019s a prequel and we\u2019re very excited about it. Hopefully we\u2019ll see it soon!\u201d<\/p>\n This comes after a legal dispute over the rights to the show<\/a> was resolved earlier this year, with the show\u2019s co-creators, Grant and Doug Naylor, both being able to continue working separately on Red Dwarf in different media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n A statement released earlier this year said: \u201cRob Grant and Doug Naylor are delighted to announce that the ongoing dispute over the Red Dwarf rights has been resolved.<\/p>\n \u201cMoving onwards and upwards, Rob and Doug hope to launch separate iterations of Red Dwarf across various media, working again with the cast and other valued partners, and wish each other the very best.<\/p>\n \u201cSmoke a kipper, Red Dwarf will be back for breakfast!!\u201d<\/p> Shortly after this, Naylor said he thought the show was likely to return to screens at some point, adding that<\/a> there\u2019s \u201creal interest\u201d.<\/p>\n Naylor said: \u201cProviding the boys are available, which isn\u2019t the easiest thing because they\u2019ve all got these mad schedules, especially Craig [Charles] and Robert [Llewellyn].<\/p>\n \u201cBut provided we can get everyone available and they do all want to be available, they want to make more, I think we\u2019ve got a good chance.\u201d<\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with a special issue of Radio Times. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Rob Grant announced the news at a BFI event on comedy and time travel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39163,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/red-dwarf-co-creator-teases-all-new-prequel-were-very-excited-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rob Grant announced the news at a BFI event on comedy and time travel.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/39162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/dear-dave.v1-1f059c8.jpg?quality=90&crop=6px%2C5px%2C1037px%2C691px&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"dear-dave.v1\\"\/")
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