Let's not forget the terrible American Red Dwarf pilot, which got so bad that the original writers, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, slipped their own version of the script under the cast's hotel room doors. The cast preferred it so much that the producers actually got them to vote on which one they wanted to do, the US one or the new one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'