Despite all the buzz, and exec producer McG, and a “phenomenal cast”, Spaced is a no-go, I’m told. FBC just turned thumbs down on the WBTV/Wonderland pilot, which was adapted from the successful British TV series

thank the gods of pocket fluff.
if they want to make remakes give em benny hill ferfuxache thats about the level of humour they can understand

I agree that it would be great if people could/would actually read the fine print and really know what to ask for, but trust me, it’s not as easy as that. While I don’t work in the field of entertainment law, I did take some classes on it in law school from lawyers that still do work for clients in all aspects of the entertainment industry. And it’s always the same thing when you first start. You can try as you might to get what you want, even if you have a really good attorney on your side fighting for every protection they can get, if you don’t have fame to pull for you, you may just have to go with the contract they give you, or you won’t get a contract at all. And when you’re starting out, struggling, and possibly scraping by to eat, you’ll take just about anything.

But the studio should have known there was going to be some backlash against this. Silly. They could have saved themselves the heartache, and brought some of the original magic on board, just by a couple of easy calls, and maybe a touch more cash.

Silly.

dont reply, i wont be reading again.

peace out!

Hope you’ve heard the news! From spaced-out.org.uk :

“On 23rd July SPACED will finally be released on Region 1 DVD, complete with new commentaries. Whilst in the US, Simon informed Peggster.net on the latest regarding the Region 1 release:

(Simon Pegg 23 March 2008)
We recorded a whole bunch of new Spaced commentaries in Santa Monica yesterday.
Edgar, Jess and myself, were joined by guest commentators, Kevin Smith, Diablo Cody, Quentin Tarantino and Matt Stone.
This, together with brand new cover art will hopefully sweeten the blow for those completists who already have the region 2.”

I’ll say!

Obviously, since I live in Europe, I’ve been enjoying my Spaced-DVD’s for years now like any sane person, but if there’s any show that I would buy twice it’s Spaced.
(As in, I would buy the original version twice. Not as in “the original AND the remake”. Boo, remake, boo. Yes, I boo you before I’ve seen you. You’re nothing but solidified piss.
And boo for ignoring Stevenson/Hynes.)

So I saw Joel McHale at the Improv on saturday, and after the show I went up and first askedwhat happened with “The IT Crowd”, he seemd dissapointed that it was cancelled before it went into production. then I told him, he should see about getting into the american version of Spaced, and he was like “Simon Pegg , right?”. I was kind of surprised he even knew about it, but he said “I’ll have to look into that, that show was great”. In hindsight, I should have mentioned he only do it with Pegg’s approval, but I was nervous talking to one of the funniest guys ever. Also Joel McHale is ridiculously tall.

I am absolutely appalled at the idea of spaced set in America, why not just show the British one with a break every five minutes so someone can explain the jokes and recap on the last 3 minutes.

My friends and i love it, and appreciate how fantastic Pegg/Stevenson/Wright/Frost, writing, directing and acting skills are.

While i appreciate some american comedies can be ok, spaced is not the right show to be americanised. There’s an aspect of spaced thats quite “real” and i agree with another comment saying that’s its not just characters they play its actually a variation of themselves.

Iv always wanted pegg and stevenson to bring back a one of special to see whats become of the characters and now im worried this remake will just taint its memory.

I agree with simon peggs comments that by all means make the series just dont call it Spaced!

Wright and Pegg 4evah!

The American version of Office was awful. I wish they’d have changed the name.

On the other hand, many American movies have stolen whole plots and characters (sp, it seems from Japanese Anime) and simply changed the name and they’ve actually become great, successful ($$M) stand alone archetypal movies.

It’s not at all easy to uderstand fine print in law-speak when you spend your life being brilliant in other ways. You’re not alone.

So, whats’ next, Peggy?

As for Spaced, I will tune in to see what the US version does with the concept but if they fail to get in touch with Pegg, Wright, or Hynes/Stevenson I will not support it with my viewership. I just hope the original Spaced gets released on DVD in the US, thank god for YouTube or I would have never seen the genius that is this series.