Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red Dwarf Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red Dwarf The writer Rob Grant, who has died suddenly aged 70, created the TV space sitcom Red Dwarf with his old school friend Doug Naylor. The BBC series, starting in 1988, won a cult following with its story of a slobbish, low-ranking technician, Dave Lister, marooned on the rusting mining ship Red Dwarf three million years in the