Red Dwarf: Titan

Rob Grant (1955-2026) co-created/wrote/produced and occasionally directed the international smash Red Dwarf. He co-authored two of the best-selling Red Dwarf novels and wrote a third (Backwards) solo. He also authored Colony, Incompetence, and Fat. All of his novels have been translated into a bizarre series of Eastern European languages. On radio, he co-created and wrote the multi-award-winning Son of Cliché. Amongst many TV projects, he helmed the writing team at Spitting Image, and created and wrote The Strangerers for Sky and Dark Ages for ITV. Red Dwarf: Titan was the final novel he completed before his untimely death in 2026.Andrew Marshall wrote The Burkiss Way with David Renwick and Hordes of the Things with John Lloyd for Radio 4. Andrew and David went onto write End of Part One, Whoops Apocalypse (and the movie version), Hot Metal for ITV, the movie Wilt, and also Alexei Sayle's Stuff with Alexei for BBC Two. Andrew then went on to write, and later produce all eight series of prime-time comedy 2point4Children for BBC Two for ten years, interspersed with Dad and Health and Efficiency for the same channel. He also adapted some episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot and created, wrote and executive produced the hour long fantasy series Strange for Saturday night BBC One. During the course of all this, his work won, amongst other baubles, a Broadcasting and Press Guild Award, an International Emmy, a Sony Radio Award, a BAFTA, and was twice the UK's entry in the Golden Rose Comedy festival.Together they co-created/wrote/produced and starred in The Nether Regions for the BBC, co-created and produced two seasons of The Quanderhorn Xperimentations for BBC radio, and co-wrote the Quanderhorn novel, also published by Gollancz.

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