One Year On

Looking back on Red Dwarf X's first anniversary.

4 October, 2013

Doesn't feel like a year, does it? Nevertheless, it's true: 365 days have now passed since Red Dwarf made its triumphant, tenth-series return to Dave with Trojan, which was broadcast at 9pm on Thursday 4th October 2012. This time a year ago, we didn't know what Howard Rimmer or Hogey the Roguey looked like, what a Stirmaster was, or even who Rimmer's real father was.

And then Series X began, and Red Dwarf was no longer a 1980s/90s sitcom that had had a one-off anniversary return special, but a present-day sitcom that was back and kicking bottom.

And that wasn't just us saying it, either (hey, we'll admit it, we're a little biased sometimes). Ratings for the revived series were a huge success, with over two million viewers tuning in or timeshift-recording the first episode, and total consolidated figures across the series never dropping below one and a quarter million. And the critics agreed with the viewers: "Raucous," said The Times, while for both the Radio Times and SFX it was "a return to form", and for IGN nothing less than "must-see TV".

While we don't have time drive technology here at GNP HQ (we're working on it), we can nevertheless take you back to relive those days with the Complete Guide to Series X, which tells the story of the series from conception right through to broadcast. And you can track the progress of all our reporting of RDX news as it happened via the below timeline:

You can also get the episodes themselves On Demand from a variety of providers, or download-to-own via iTunes - or even, if you've yet to do so, pick up the DVD or Blu-ray sets, which delve even further behind the scenes with the "We're Smegged" documentary.

Of course, with the tenth series now a year behind us, the question naturally turns to whether or not there's any news about Series XI. Well, we can't say anything just yet, beyond the fact that the situation is much the same as it was at Dimension Jump earlier this year - which is that a series commission is hoped for by everyone involved, but not confirmed just yet. In this huge anniversary year, however (er, we mean the silver anniversary of the show itself, not just the first anniversary of Series X), we very much hope to have more news to bring you before too long...

Stay tuned to reddwarf.co.uk every Friday for the latest Red Dwarf news!