Doug Naylor, who created and wrote the sci-fi comedy with Grant from its inception in 1988, revealed last year that his new special, which was set to see Craig Charles's character Lister going back in time to help his 23-year-old self escape from stasis, had been scrapped by UKTV.
A spokesperson for UKTV previously told Radio Times in a statement: "UKTV has no current plans to commission further episodes of Red Dwarf.
"It's been a privilege to work with Doug Naylor and the cast in a relationship that began with the Back to Earth specials, which premiered to 4 million viewers, and has subsequently produced three full series, a retrospective and Red Dwarf's first ever feature length, The Promised Land."
The two co-creators, who dissolved their partnership in the 1990s, have been working on their own individual Red Dwarf projects since a legal dispute was resolved in 2023.
"But we finally got it resolved [in 2023], and suddenly all these rights became available to me, and one of them was for the prequel, and that's where it started."
"We originally wrote it as a treatment for a TV spin-off and took it around, but it's horribly expensive, and we couldn't really raise enough interest," Grant told us.
For now, however, they're focused on the new novel, with Grant explaining: "It's Lister and Rimmer before the accident on shore leave on Titan.
"So it was quite an intricate bit of work that actually took us about a year-and-a-half longer than we were hoping!"
Grant and Marshall are also keen to continue their new story, with a sequel novel.
Watch this space!
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