Robert Llewellyn: Series X could cause a smeg-asm

I just wanted to say that I now feel confident in predicting that the new series of Red Dwarf is going to be every bit as good as anything we have ever done in the past, if not better.

Robert Llewellyn: Back on the Dwarf

While I was cooling off outside the studio the other night between scenes, I did ponder what my life would have been like if I had, as I intended at the time, said no to playing the role of the rubber headed one in 1989...

Robert Llewellyn: Episode 1 recording

We did the first Red Dwarf X recording in front of an audience last night and we all survived.

Robert Llewellyn: 1st day of Red Dwarf X

We all gathered at Shepperton Studio's today, had a read through of the first 2 scripts, had a look around the sets in the cavernous studio we'll be working in for the next 9 weeks or so...

Robert Llewellyn: Red Dwarf new series update

That's right, you read correctly, there is to be a new series of Red Dwarf. Not a one off, not a Christmas special, a new six part series.

Robert Llewellyn: Red Dwarf is coming back. Smegtastic

In November this year we start to record a new series of 6 episodes, presently titled Red Dwarf X. I'm not sure of the Broadcast dates but we finish recording them in early February 2012.

Carpool is a distinctly low-frills, ingeniously penny-pinching chat show, with its cut-price opening credits and host Robert Llewellyn picking up guests in his car and interviewing as he drives them around. This week, it's the turn of Tim Vine, king of the twitter gag, whose puns Llewellyn finds amusing to an alarming degree, and comedian Doon Mackichan, whose latest show draws for its entertainment on the subject matter of recent family events including her father's death, her divorce, and the grave illness of her young son.

One of digital channel Dave's few original commissions, Carpool is a novelty chat-show devised and hosted by Robert Llewellyn, in which he ferries celebrity guests inside a car fixed with cameras.

This simple premise allows Llewellyn and his passengers to trade banter which, while rarely hilarious, provides a pleasant way to spend half an hour

His first guest was likable Irish comedian Jason Byrne, followed by a natter with Jo Brand - clearly one of showbiz's nicest stars - in which she revealed that her superb NHS comedy Getting On was filmed in an abandoned hospital in the dead of winter with no heating facilities.

A slight but genial slice of compact-concept television.

For its makers, Carpool certainly has budgetary virtues. Instead of going to the expense of hiring a studio and building a set, they simply send out Robert Llewellyn in his Toyota Prius to pick up celebrities, whom he is then filmed interviewing in his car. Cheap as chips. This week, it's the turn of Jason Byrne, en route from the airport, who waxes vaguely amusing about conspiracy theories. Jo Brand is the next passenger, getting to retell the story of how she once flunked an audition to play herself.

Whoever thought that watching one person give a lift to another person would be so entertaining? This week Robert Llewellyn gives a ride to Jeremy Hardy and Rob Brydon, and the continuing theme through both interviews is taking the mickey out of Tony Blair.