JOIN THE CORPS. News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 12th June 2026, 09:16 Well, isn’t this interesting. We noticed this morning that an account called @RedDwarfTitan had started following us on X, and their one Tweet is pointing to a video. A video which will be premiering in less than two hours, with the tagline “JOIN THE CORPS.” over a very nice piece of artwork. Now, this might not be legit – we’ve had our fair share of heads-ups and embargoed news in the past, but this is not one of those cases – so we could be opening a Can of Worms of LAZY, INACCURATE journalism, but it’s too good an opportunity to have a watch party over on YouTube not to share this with you all and see what happens. Update: Well, what we got was a very brief teaser for the book, along with further confirmation of the release date. I’m impressed there’s any sort of video based publicity, really, and hopefully this very small teaser is a sign of marketing to come, because I do very much like the Space Corps angle.
Well, that was a nice little teaser I suppose. I do wonder what it would mean to someone who didn’t already know what it meant, though.
I mean, it was nice, and all, but I don’t think it was quite worth the build up. The countdown was longer than the live chat.
OK, I’ll say it: YouTube should make videos that are less than 1 minute long ineligible to be premieres.
To be fair to them, they did not big this up at all, that was all on us. The premiere was likely just set to be a certain time for a scheduled upload.
I’m invigilating an exam and had to watch with the sound off. Has any other part of Red Dwarf ever used fuzzy VHS imagery in a somewhat nostalgic way?
Putting aside the upload method, that would have been hype as hell if we didn’t already know exactly what “Red Dwarf Titan” was. A month out from release though, a trailer really needs a bit more than that. Still, we did learn that the channel is in fact called “Groovy Funky Channel 27” and not just “Groovy Channel 27” as per Better Than Life. First crumb of new Red Dwarf lore! To be fair to them, they did not big this up at all, that was all on us. The premiere was likely just set to be a certain time for a scheduled upload. Ah, but if you’re not going to big it up, why make it a YouTube Premiere at all? You can schedule new videos without making them live events, right?
I always thought it was just Channel 27 and Rimmer added on the “groovy funky” part to mock it. But now it’s just called that. High Brow BBC4. Populist BBC2. Fuzzy Channel 5.
my one hope is Rob left enough notes/ideas (and legal permissions) for a second book finished by his co writer
