8 Essential TV Shows
1. red dwarf They smoked us a kipper and they’re back for breakfast! Having successfully negotiated a couple of lengthy hiatuses and the move to a new channel, Rimmer, Lister, Kryten and the Cat are riding high on the wave of 2012’s excellent series X, and back for not one but two new six-part series on Dave. The 12 episodes that’ll be shared between Red Dwarf XI (due in 2016) and Red Dwarf XII (2017) are shooting either side of Christmas. “There was an argument from UKTV that things would be cheaper if we did 12 because costs and things could be spread across both series,” explains writer, director and Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, speaking to SFX mere days before the first live studio recording in mid-November. “I found myself saying yes, okay, there is time to do that, but then when you’ve written seven or eight you go, ‘Oh my god, why didn’t I say it had to be six!’” Naylor says the new series episodes will pick up soon after series X left off, but wo...