Rob Grant
- Actor, writer, producer, script editor and director
Press clippings Page 2
Why Gunmen of the Apocalypse is a comedy classic
It may seem hard to believe, but cult TV favourite Red Dwarf celebrates its 30th anniversary today.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 15th February 2018Red Dwarf: revisiting the seventh series
In the three years between Red Dwarf VI and VII, some big changes occurred.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 19th January 2018The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to return in 2018
Radio 4 has confirmed classic radio show The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is to return in 2018 with a new series, The Hexagonal Phase.
British Comedy Guide, 12th October 2017When good TV goes bad: how Red Dwarf's star faded
With the departure of co-creator Rob Grant after series six, the show lurched into comedy-drama, navel-gazing and, eventually, utter smegging ineptitude.
Gabriel Tate, The Guardian, 18th September 2017Opinion: should Spitting Image return?
Every time Donald Trump is in the news you can be pretty sure that someone somewhere will post something on social media similar to the following: "Economic problems, loose cannon in the White House, female Prime Minister, Labour Party in disarray. It's the eighties all over again. What we really need is Spitting Image back."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2017Everything to know about the six ages of Red Dwarf
It's been four years since the last new episode of sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf graced our screens. Now it's back, with the first of two new series premiering on Dave on 22nd September. But those of you unfamiliar with this comedy gem (and there must be at least a couple of you) may wonder what all the fuss is about, and who are those strange middle-aged men hanging round in space? Well, now we can enlighten you...
James Baldock, Metro, 22nd September 2016Happy 25th anniversary - Red Dwarf!
15 February is definitely a day to celebrate if you love British telly. Twenty-five years ago on that fateful day in 1988, the creation from the mind palace of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor which introduced the world to the remaining on-board inhabitants of a mining spaceship owned and operated by the Jupiter Mining Corporation, became a reality with the premiere broadcast of Red Dwarf.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 15th February 2013Paul Jackson, great practical grammarian of British television, on how Alan Simpson and Ray Galton's comedy characters, born on a BBC pilot programme in 1962, ruled the airwaves for 13 years after (with native versions in America, Sweden and Holland) and have influenced other British writers over several generations. Simpson and Galton join him, as do Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks of Birds of a Feather, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor of Red Dwarf, as well as Peter Flannery of Our Friends in the North.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 15th August 2012