Back to Earth (2009)

Directed by

Doug Naylor

Genre

science fiction comedy

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

A technician who is the last human alive travels through space with his holographic bunkmate, a humanoid cat, and a robot. They return to Earth in 2009 and discover they are characters in a TV show.

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What happens

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (also referred to as Red Dwarf IX) is a three-part miniseries continuation of the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, broadcast on UK television channel Dave between 10 and 12 April 2009 and subsequently released on DVD on 15 June 2009 and on Blu-ray on 31 August 2009. It was the first television outing for Red Dwarf in over ten years. The miniseries follows the technician Dave Lister (Craig Charles), who is the only survivor of an accident on the spaceship Red Dwarf, and the last survivor of the human race, three million years in the future, and his shipmates, a holographic reproduction of his dead bunkmate and boss, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), a sapient Cat (Danny John-Jules) who is a result of three million years' evolution and sanitation droid Kryten (Robert Llewellyn). The storyline involves the characters arriving back on Earth, circa 2009, only to find that they are characters in a television series called Red Dwarf. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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