The Red Dwarf XI broadcast dates you've been waiting for.
So, let's recap. You know
there are six new episodes of Red Dwarf landing on Dave. You know
their names. You know
they're arriving in September. But you're waiting, still agonisingly waiting, to find out on exactly which day you can finally start watching Series XI. We know, it's tense. We can feel it.
Fortunately, our friends at UKTV have now released that crucial bit of information into the wild - and what's more, they've done so in a pretty darned fun and exciting fashion, because to find out the two-digit number you'll first have to watch this rather splendid promotional video:
http://youtu.be/IuGqv1ExuAo
But if video watching isn't your thing, don't worry; we've got you sorted in good old fashioned text form, too. So here's the skinny:
Red Dwarf XI episode one, Twentica, will premiere on Dave at 9.00pm on Thursday 22nd September 2016. The remaining five episodes will follow, unsurprisingly, on a weekly basis, giving us the following schedule:
| Date | Time | Episode |
| Thursday 22nd September | 9.00pm | Twentica |
| Thursday 29th September | 9.00pm | Samsara |
| Thursday 6th October | 9.00pm | Give and Take |
| Thursday 13th October | 9.00pm | Officer Rimmer |
| Thursday 20th October | 9.00pm | Krysis |
| Thursday 27th October | 9.00pm | Can of Worms |
That's right: we're now less than six weeks away from new
Red Dwarf. Drink that feeling in. But do you want some even better news?
Because actually, we're less than
five weeks away from new
Red Dwarf.
Wait, what? Why? Well, it's all thanks to something called
UKTV Play.
You may have seen us mention it before, but UKTV Play is the exclusive online on-demand platform for all the UKTV channels - from Gold, to W, to Really, and including (of course) good old
Dave. Just as with Series X, each episode of
Red Dwarf XI will be available to stream on the service, entirely free to UK and Republic of Ireland residents. But in a novel twist that has been trialled with some other Dave shows recently, new
Red Dwarf will preview online a week before its UK transmission.
Which means that
you can actually see the premiere of RDXI on Thursday 15th September. All you need is an internet connection and a compatible device to access the UKTV Play service. You can watch directly on your computer
at the website, or install the relevant tablet and smartphone apps from
Apple and
Google Play.
If you're not able to get UKTV Play, or you just prefer the traditional telly-based broadcast method, then to get Dave you'll need some form of digital television platform. You can find the channel on
Freeview, BT and TalkTalk channel 12, Sky 111/246, and Virgin 127/194 (Sky and Virgin offer an HD version, hence the double numbers). Viewers in the Republic of Ireland, meanwhile, can get the channel on
Sky or UPC.
And that's how you can watch new
Red Dwarf, in just a matter of weeks. The slime's coming home...
