4. Initially broadcast on BBC2 between 1988 to 1999, which TV channel brought back the TV comedy series "Red Dwarf" back to TV with a new series in 2009?
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Dave
Created by Doug Naylor and Rob Grant, "Red Dwarf" is centred around four main characters. The only human onboard Red Dwarf is Dave Lister, a jack the lad Liverpudlian. To keep him company the ships computer - Holly - recreates Lister's former roommate Arnold Rimmer as a hologram, but retaining the character's pompous, by the rule book coward with a stickler for detail personality. The only other living creature on board is a humanoid that evolved from Lister's cat Frankenstein named Cat.
At the end of series two, another character was added in the form of Kryten, a mechanoid rescued from a derelict spacecraft with a fetish for cleaning, who also unwittingly serves Lister, taking care of him. In seventh series, the character of Rimmer left the crew, replaced by Kristine Kochanski, whom Lister was once in love with. However, Rimmer rejoined the crew when series eight was broadcast. This time Rimmer is no longer a hologram but recreated by Kryten's nanobots as a living person, only to die again at the end of that series.
After "Red Dwarf" ended on BBC 2, "Red Dwarf did not get re-commissioned until 2009, this time of the Freeview channel Dave. Initially, only three episodes were commissioned, but the success of those three episodes prompted Dave to revive the series with series ten and eleven broadcast in 2012 and 2016 respectively. Along with series eleven a twelfth series has recorded for future broadcast.
Series ten and Elven also returned to the four main cast members, minus the ship's computer Holly played by both Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge in series from three to five.