happening had they went with a smaller budget makes me a little sad, I've been saying for years they should have went for a 'Dwarf movie with a budget around the 5-6 million mark, and which was a direct continuation from the series... they could have expanded the unfilmed VIII finale episode 'Earth' into a proper 90-minute movie and considering the quality of the effects work on VIII, they could easily have pulled off one visually stunning 'Dwarf movie on a relatively low budget. I could have got a big budget if I agreed to recast it but I absolutely refused. It wouldn't be Red Dwarf without the original cast so I just said nah (laughs). Top bloke. Submitted by Johnny Wishbone on Fri, 2012-11-09 09:49. I, for one, hope they do make another series. I enjoyed series "X" and although it may have come in for a bit of criticism from series 3-5 purists it did make me laugh and I felt that it was getting back to it's roots in terms of format and characters. I grant you that it may not be the strongest series overall but I'm very much of the opinion that the show was finding it's feet once more after the couple of lacklustre series that preceeded it. I'm on the fence. Will have to give it another watch all the way through before making a decision but other than a few classic comedy moments, initially I am disappointed (although my expectations were so