Grant and Naylor themselves called this pseudonym a "gestalt entity" (i.e., something that is greater than the sum of its parts).

[2] The collaboration began in the mid-1980s, when the duo co-wrote BBC Radio 4 programmes such as Cliché and its sequel, Son of Cliché, and television programmes such as the British satire Spitting Image, the office-based comedy The 10%ers, and various projects for Jasper Carrott.

The pair are also credited with writing the lyrics to "The Chicken Song" and a number of other musical parodies for Spitting Image.

[2][3][4] The "Grant Naylor collaboration", as it had become known, created the cult science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

Instead, a new three-part television miniseries, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, was created and shown on channel Dave, over the Easter weekend in April 2009.