Grant Naylor

Grant Naylor was the pseudonym of the British author duo Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, was responsible among other things for Red Dwarf, which was produced as a book and very successful TV series.

Here Grant and Naylor themselves called this pseudonym as a " gestalt entity", ie something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Development and production of Red Dwarf

The collaboration between the two authors started in the mid 1980s, when the duo 4 jointly developed as a co- authors for the BBC radio programs such as Cliché and his successor Son Of Cliché. Today the episodes from 1983 to 1987 on the digital channel BBC Radio 7 broadcast. In addition, Grant and Naylor wrote for television programs such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters and various projects of Jasper Carrott ( Carrott 's Lib, 1982).

The duo will moreover led in the credits for the lyrics of The Chicken Song and a number of other musical parodies of the satirical TV show Spitting Image. The Chicken Song won in the UK for its sales figures the Silver Disc, which is quite comparable with the usual in German-speaking gold record in 1986 and three weeks at the top of the UK singles chart.

The Grant Naylor - cooperation, what to call them later, is best known for the creation of the science fiction comedy television series Red Dwarf. Just Grant was repeatedly honored that the humor and wit of the first episodes have played a greater role. Rob Grant was even published in 1989 in the episode Backwards without mention in the credits as a man who does not smoke his cigarette. The later episodes of Red Dwarf were produced by a company which is named after the name of the pseudonym Grant Naylor Productions.

In the second half of the 1990s after the success of the sixth season of the show ended the collaboration, as Rob Grant made ​​artistic differences for his departure from the production team responsible and thus Doug Naylor had left with the sole responsibility for the series. However, Grant's main reason was more that he wanted to have his own words stand for more than just Red Dwarf on his grave stone in appreciation.

During the joint creative period for Red Dwarf they wrote in six seasons together a total of 36 episodes and two books, recorded for the last four as responsible producers and resulted in different sequences to direct myself.

After the separation

Doug Naylor continued with the production of the seasons 7 and 8, in collaboration with other authors. Since 2007, Grant Naylor Productions was busy production for the DVD release of Red Dwarf get going and the return of Red Dwarf in a three -part special Red Dwarf in the first place: to prepare baking ot Earth, which was published in 2009.

Rob Grant, however, wrote in 1999 and 2000 as an independent author of two television series, Dark Ages and Strangerers, and worked on the script of the series Stressed Eric. In recent years, he also wrote next to the already mentioned Red Dwarf spinoff three more novels; Colony (2001 ) Incompetence ( GollanczF. ) (2004 ) and Fat ( GollanczF. ) (2006 ).

• Grant Naylor: Red Dwarf, Penguin, London, 1989, ISBN 0140124373
• Grant Naylor: Better than Life. Roc 1993, ISBN 978-0451452313.
• Grant Naylor: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers. Penguin, London 1995, ISBN 978-0140124378.
• Doug Naylor: Last Human. Penguin, London 1995, ISBN 978-0140143881.
• Rob Grant: Backwards. Penguin, London 1996, ISBN 978-0140171501.

• Grant Naylor: Red Dwarf. Translation: Wolfgang Thon, Del Rey, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3442266654.
• Grant Naylor: Better than life. Translation: Wolfgang Thon, Del Rey, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3442266968.
• Rob Grant: Full power back. Translation: Wolfgang Thon, Del Rey, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3442266951.
• Doug Naylor: The last human. Translation: Wolfgang Thon, Del Rey, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3442266944.