this change his personality in the future, it may or it may not. Or it may be something else like a twist on top of a twist. In terms of does it change your perception of what happened in the past, no I don't think it does. But it could affect his behaviour in the future. One thing I loved in this episode was how you address the series eight cliffhanger! Did you have a chuckle to yourself when you were writing it? (Laughs) oh yeah we did. That was one of the things we wanted to address and we talked seriously about doing it in episode one. But then the danger is it becomes a big exposition-y start to the series and no one really wants that. So I thought we should leave it 'til later on but address it in some way. SPOILERS END Okay, big question now. Is there a future for Red Dwarf ? I think there is. You can never absolutely guarantee it because UKTV have to commission it, the boys all have to want to do it, then there's the contractual obligations. But in terms of how this series has been received, it's been very, very positive and the ratings have been terrific. Ironically, it's been the highest selling BBC title on iTunes as well. And would you want to return to doing the film? Craig said something interesting to me which was if we were to do the film, he wouldn't want to