The entire crew of the Red Dwarf will be getting their Kryten on in the upcoming twelfth series, rather disturbingly depicted in this first image. According to an official release, this particular episode will see The Cat (Danny John-Jules), Rimmer (Chris Barrie) and Lister (Craid Charles) all turned into mechanoids, just like their long-suffering servitor.
As Kryten, Robert Llewellyn has been daubing himself in prosthetics since 1989 and here, finally, it seems the actor got his own back.
Barrie: "Sitting in it and waiting is always the hardest bit. When you’re working I’m not bothered about it, but when you’re having to wait, and you’re in the mask and you can’t do anything, you’re thinking ‘is this going to come off?’"
Charles: "It was so uncomfortable, so hot, I thought I was crying at one point but I wasn’t, I was sweating through my eyes!"
John-Jules: "The problem was, the sweat sort of collects under the mask but outside it was about -5 degrees. So we’d run out to get fresh air and then nearly die of pneumonia! 28 years of guilt, of calling [Robert] a big wuss. We literally went out bowing to him."
Red Dwarf XII with air on Dave in the Autumn.