British comedy writer Rob Grant, 70, died on Feb. 25. Along with his writing partner Doug Naylor, he wrote the sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf; he also wrote for radio and TV (Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, Carrott’s Lib, Cannon and Ball, Three of a Kind, Dark Ages, The Strangerers). Grant also wrote several novels, and did stand-up comedy. “It was like our wildest dream come true,” Grant said of his most popular project, Red Dwarf. “It had taken so long from writing the pilot to having the show commissioned, we'd begun to believe it might never happen. I remember getting in the lift at the BBC building in Manchester, and some extras got in, in Red Dwarf crew uniforms, which, amazingly, we hadn't seen up until that point, and I felt I was in fairyland. I remember thinking as the lift went up: 'I invented you.’” At the time of his death, Grant had just completed a Red Dwarf prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan, set to be released this summer.
