RDX Up For RTS

Show nominated for Craft & Design award. UPDATED: And wins!

15 November, 2013 (Updated 19 November, 2013)

It's a quirk of the awards season calendar that means that Red Dwarf X can have been broadcast (or, at least, started broadcasting) slightly over a year ago and yet be in the running for awards still to be given out - but what the heck, we won't turn our noses up at award nominations, and this is an especially nice one.

The Royal Television Society - an educational charity that serves as a forum for discussion and analysis of TV in the UK - hold their Craft & Design Awards every November, which are designed to recognise the sort of achievements that often go unnoticed when higher-profile gongs for acting, writing, directing and the like are given out. According to the RTS themselves, the awards "recognise the huge variety of skills and processes involved in programme production, from editing to lighting, and costume design to digital effects".

And Red Dwarf X has this year been nominated in the Effects - Special category, with writer/director Doug Naylor, model-maker Bill Pearson and model unit DoP Deane Thrussell specifically named in the nomination. There are only two other nominees - BBC Four science documentary Order and Disorder, and Sky One's military-based Strike Back: Vengeance - but with three such different types of programme nominated, it's difficult to tell whether or not Red Dwarf will triumph. Although, you know, do any of those other shows have Simulant Annihilators whizzing around the hull of Red Dwarf blowing it to bits? I don't think so.

The awards are being presented on Monday 18th November at a London ceremony hosted by Brian Conley (although sadly not televised, as far as we can see) - we'll report back imminently on whether or not Red Dwarf came out on top!

Find out more and read about other nomination categories at the Royal Television Society website!

UPDATE (19/11/13): We're delighted to report that Red Dwarf X took home the award! Congratulations to Doug, Bill, Deane and everybody else involved in making RDX such a success.