UKTV has commissioned a new batch of Red Dwarf scripts after reviving the BBC sci-fi comedy at Easter.

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Robert Llewellyn, who plays android Kryten in the show, confirmed on his Twitter feed that writer and co-creator Doug Naylor was working on new scripts for UKTV’s comedy channel Dave.

Filming is pencilled in for next year.

The first episode of two-parter Back to Earth delivered Dave’s best ratings to date, with 2.4m tuning in across the channel and its time-shifted counterpart Dave Ja Vu, almost 10 times the slot average.

Viewers tailed away for the second part, but it still attracted 1.2m across the two channels.

Red Dwarf originally ran for eight series on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999 and was initially written by Naylor with Rob Grant, who bowed out after series six.

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