many sets so we based it on contemporary Earth with things like Coronation Street. We built a high concept story as a celebration of Red Dwarf even though we only had one Red Dwarf set. You look at the sets for series ten and the sleeping quarters alone took eight weeks to build. The pre-production work for Back to Earth was only three weeks which is insanely short. We were starting from scratch and that's hard on a comedy show and a science-fiction comedy show. We weren't in any position to ask for more money because we need this and that, unless we could prove that people would watch this series. When Back to Earth went out and got the incredible ratings it did, Dave were interested in doing a series. We went "great but we need to go back to thirty minutes." That's really really important, you can't do a Red Dwarf episode in twenty-three minutes and I didn't want to do part one, part two etc. I've always hated that. We had to get the audience back as well and have it return to the four boys on Red Dwarf because that's where it at its best! Did any ideas or parts of the film make it into either Back to Earth or Series X? There were so many drafts of the film, thirty-five altogether, and they all had different stories in them. I was asked so many times to rewrite it to increase the budget first of