Boys from the ...

It looks fairly official this time - there are going to be some more Red Dwarf made. It is really only a couple of new episodes proper but that is still good.

But what really got me is the comment that this is being done to celebrate Red Dwarf's 21st birthday. 21 years since it first hit the screens - bloody hell! That makes me feel so old.

I remember when it was first shown here. There was a late night variety show on friday nights - clips, music and various other strangeness. A few of the guys used to watch it from as part of of our regular beer & pizza fridays. But it must have been running out of material because they announced this red dwarf thing that was going to take up a good chunk of the show - it looked like it would be a big bit of filler but the hosts really ramped up the hype. So we watched the first show and were immediately hooked. Season 1 of Red Dwarf became the highlight of the beer and pizza sessions. Little were we to know that it would get even better with subsequent series.

21 years. *shakes head* More about age in the next few weeks.