Red Giant (TV series)

Red Giant (also known as Red Dwarf USA) is an upcoming American sitcom television series developed by and Maria Ferrari. It is based on the British science fiction sitcom television series  created by and, the series will air on.

Premise
In this American version of the 1988 British sitcom also low-ranking technician Andrew D. Lister, the last human on earth, awakens from four million years of suspened animation, with no crew on board the mining spacecraft Red Giant besides a hologram of Lister's deceased bunkmate Jasper Rimmer, and Mutt, a life form which evolved from Lister's pregnant Dog they travel the galaxy getting into all kinds of trouble.

Cast

 * Karan Brar as Andrew D. Lister
 * KJ Apa as Jasper Rimmer
 * Franz Drameh as Mutt
 * Lecy Goranson as the voice of Callie
 * Simon Helberg as Servo
 * China Anne McClain as Anessa Kochanski

Recurring

 * as Captain Charles Foilster

Development
After the failed pilot of the US in 1992 and Maria Ferrari (') began development of a another American version, Naylor will be involved, Ferrari and Kaplan will executive produce/showrun the series with Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Johnny Galecki and Andrew Haas, as well as all the The Big Bang Theory and ' crew members have joined production with Universal TV. The show's episodes will original or remakes of curtain Red Dwarf episodes.

Characters
Karan Brar is cast as Andrew D. Lister an American-Indian version of Dave Lister, KJ Apa as Jasper Rimmer a New Zealand version of Arnold Rimmer, Franz Drameh as Mutt a dog version of Cat, Lecy Goranson as Callie a wise-cracking A.I. that is also the ships' computer with a functional IQ of 7000, Simon Helberg as Servo a service android who has the same traits as Kryten with a head shape similar to his, China Anne McClain as Anessa Kochanski an Africa-American version of Kristine Kochanski, British actor star of Dwarf Red cast as Captain Charles Foilster a British version of Captain Frank Hollister.

Directors
, Helberg,, Jeff Greenstein, Anthony Rich, Ted Wass and James Widdoes will direct any and all episodes.

Writers
Kaplan and Ferrari will be head along writers with a total of 10 other writers from The Big Bang Theory, ' and ', star of Red Dwarf has also joined the writers room.

Filming
The series will be filmed in front of a live studio audience at Stage 25, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA some of the props the UK series will be used in this series while using Sony CineAlta F23 Camera, Sony HDW-F900 Camera and Sony PMW-F55 Camera some scene will be shot with green screen.