Grant Naylor was the collective name used by writers Rob Grant and

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for their collaborative work, including the television series '' Red Dwarf''. Grant and Naylor themselves called this pseudonym a "gestalt entity" (i.e., something which is greater than the sum of its parts). The collaboration began in the mid-1980s, when the duo co-wrote

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programmes such as ''Cliché'' and its sequel '' Son of Cliché'', and television programmes such as the

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'', office-based comedy '' The 10%ers'', and various projects for

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. The pair are also credited with writing the lyrics to "

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" and a number of other musical parodies for ''Spitting Image''. The 'Grant Naylor' collaboration, as it had become known, created the cult science-fiction comedy series ''Red Dwarf''. Later episodes of ''Red Dwarf'' were made by a company named after this pseudonym, Grant Naylor Productions. In the mid-1990s, after Series VI of ''Red Dwarf'', Grant left the show, ending the collaboration between Grant and Naylor, but Grant Naylor Productions continued. Later series of ''Red Dwarf'' were written by Naylor, sometimes in collaboration with other writers, particularly on series 7. After the end of the eighth series of ''Red Dwarf'' in 1999, Grant Naylor Productions (under Doug Naylor) attempted to make a feature-length movie version of the series. However, it proved impossible to find sufficient funding. Instead, a new three-part television miniseries, '' Red Dwarf: Back to Earth'', was created and shown on channel Dave over the Easter weekend in April 2009. Since then, Grant Naylor Productions has created '' Red Dwarf X'', broadcast in 2012; ''Red Dwarf XI'', broadcast on ''Dave'' in 2016; ''Red Dwarf XII'', which was shot back-to-back with XI and broadcast in 2017; and a 2020 telemovie. As of March 2020, Doug Naylor has dissolved the partnership and resigned.

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