Hi Moonbasers. I was very shocked and saddened to hear about Rob Grant's death yesterday. As you know I worked for several years on Red Dwarf, as a BBC Visual Effects Design Assistant, which Rob co-created and wrote with fellow writer Doug Naylor. Over those years, I met him many times. I found him to be a clever, witty man, with a warm and friendly manner. Working with him and the Red Dwarf crew gave me some of the most enjoyable, rewarding, and above all, fun, times of my professional career in television, and I have a lot to thank him for. One memory is of meeting up with him and Doug, in a London pub, for an afternoon of chat about ideas that they, and we, had for one of their upcoming series of Dwarf. It was quite a hilarious, boozy day. I last met him online, during the Covid pandemic, when he invited me onto a live podcast, to cheer up Red Dwarf fans, and talk about an episode of the show, that was also playing online, at the same time. It was good to catch up and, again, great fun. His death is a sad loss to both Sci Fi and Comedy, and I shall miss his easy, laid back approach to both writing and producing, which made working for him such a pleasure. RIP Rob, and "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast".
Very sad news indeed Scoop.
ReplyDeleteHave just heard about Rob's death, and am shocked.
ReplyDeleteI'll comment about this in the next day or two.
Hi Moonbasers.
ReplyDeleteI was very shocked and saddened to hear about Rob Grant's death yesterday.
As you know I worked for several years on Red Dwarf, as a BBC Visual Effects Design Assistant, which Rob co-created and wrote with fellow writer Doug Naylor.
Over those years, I met him many times. I found him to be a clever, witty man, with a warm and friendly manner.
Working with him and the Red Dwarf crew gave me some of the most enjoyable, rewarding, and above all, fun, times of my professional career in television, and I have a lot to thank him for.
One memory is of meeting up with him and Doug, in a London pub, for an afternoon of chat about ideas that they, and we, had for one of their upcoming series of Dwarf.
It was quite a hilarious, boozy day.
I last met him online, during the Covid pandemic, when he invited me onto a live podcast, to cheer up Red Dwarf fans, and talk about an episode of the show, that was also playing online, at the same time. It was good to catch up and, again, great fun.
His death is a sad loss to both Sci Fi and Comedy, and I shall miss his easy, laid back approach to both writing and producing, which made working for him such a pleasure.
RIP Rob, and "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast".