Coming To America

The Promised Land heads to BritBox - plus a livestreamed Comic-Con panel!

26 June, 2020

If there's one question we get asked on social media more often than "Would anybody like any toast?" it's surely "When can I watch new Red Dwarf in the country I live in?" Well, fortunately, if that country is the United States or Canada, we now have an answer for you.

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land will be making it to American shores just a couple of months and change after its original UK airing - as it lands on the BritBox platform on 26th July. And in honour of the announcement, here's a new Britbox-specific trailer for the special (although if you haven't yet seen the show, do beware that it gives away a little bit more in terms of plot and gags than the pre-broadcast trailers here did!)

BritBox is currently America's streaming home of all twelve previous Red Dwarf outings - Series I-VIII, Back to Earth and X-XII - and is a subscription service that brings the best of UK-originated telly to the US and Canada. If you've never joined before, you can get a 7-day free trial before signing up for just $6.99 a month.

And that's not all - to celebrate the transatlantic crossing of the latest special, cast members Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Robert Llewellyn, and writer/director Doug Naylor, will be taking part in a special virtual Q&A panel, streamed as part of Comic-Con @ Home. It'll take place over the convention-length weekend of 22nd-26th July - as soon as we have details on exactly when, and indeed how you'll be able to stream the event, we'll let you know, but you can also keep an eye on @Comic_Con for details.

So that's the UK, Canada and the US taken care of. Only another 192 countries to go, then...

Find out how you can stream the Red Dwarf library where you are in our Watch section!