american spaced

[simonjedi]

Fox is teaming with writer Adam Barr and producer McG for "Spaced," a comedy project based on the Channel 4 series of the same name from "Shaun of the Dead" masterminds Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright.

Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to the single-camera "Spaced," which hails from Warner Bros. TV, McG's WBTV-based Wonderland Sound and Vision and Granada America, which owns the format.

The project revolves around two strangers who pose as a married couple in order to rent an apartment.

"Will & Grace" alum Barr is writing the script for "Spaced," which garnered interest from several networks. He is exec producing with Wonderland's McG and Peter Johnson and Granada's Robert Green.

The original series, which ran on Channel 4 for two seasons, was written by Pegg and Jessica Hynes who starred as the fake couple, and was directed by Wright. It earned two BAFTA nominations for best comedy series and an International Emmy nomination.

"Spaced" reunites McG and Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who worked together on "Chuck" last season when Reilly was entertainment president at NBC. It also brings McG back to Fox, where he exec produced teen soap "The O.C."

For his seven-year stint on "Grace," Barr won a best comedy series Emmy in 2000 as part of the show's producing team. The past two years, he worked on the WBTV-produced comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie25482ef248abb489087a1676aaa2e50

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[Warbie]

So, arguably the best comedy ever is getting remade for an American audience and being written by the guy responsible for Will & ****ing Grace.

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[knut]

Abuuuhhhh? I... it's... but...

Just... why? Why are they doing they're own version of such an original show? It doesn't make any sense. :|

Granted, the American Office is ok (sometimes) but still. Gah.

 

[Warbie]

I know it's crazy talk, but perhaps it would be better to release Spaced in the States?! My cousin says it's not even available on dvd over there!

 

[simonjedi]

I know it's crazy talk, but perhaps it would be better to release Spaced in the States?! My cousin says it's not even available on dvd over there!

no no no no no

this isn't a uk spaced on tv, this is an american version of spaced (like the office was)

 

[Warbie]

I know, hence the words I used

 

[Reginald]

We get burdened with popular US shit without feeling the need to remake it like Friends and Will & Grace. Why isn't our stuff good enough for them?

 

[Dekstar]

What the ****? That's insane. Just show the original in the ****ing states you pansy ass producers.
It'll be ruined otherwise.

Also totally agree with Warbie and Reggy.

 

[Direwolf]

Fuh?

(I think the American version of the Office has actually come into its own, but this makes infinitely less sense.)

 

[pomegranate]

There is no way this isn't going to be completely shit.



Reginald - BBC2's Coupling is arguably a British Friends. Not that similar in humour, but the 'sit' of the sitcom is the same. Just saying, ya know.

 

[Dekstar]

Except Coupling didn't run as long, which would have been awesome .

British shows don't translate well into American shows, because our humour is far different. Just like what PomPom said; if Friends were remade for us Brits, it would be Coupling. more adult oriented, and arguably far funnier for us Brits.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Except Coupling didn't run as long, which would have been awesome .

British shows don't translate well into American shows, because our humour is far different. Just like what PomPom said; if Friends were remade for us Brits, it would be Coupling. more adult oriented, and arguably far funnier for us Brits.

I think it was Ricky Gervais who said Americans need more hope in their comedy shows than brits, hence why most british comedy shows often revolve around complete and utter losers and idiots and things rarely work out for the main characters in the end.

 

[TwwIX]

Anything that McG touches turns to crap.

 

[knut]

Either way, I think a few of the guys from Spaced have said in interviews they would be returning for a third season, but that's amongst other claims from others that they wouldn't. To Wikipedia!

EDIT: Dang, there isn't. This is a pretty interesting regarding the American Spaced, though:

On 30 October 2007, it was announced that Fox would commission a pilot for an American version of Spaced. Variety reported that it was unclear how Pegg and Wright will be involved, but that they may be advisors to the series[11]; however, Wright later confirmed via his MySpace blog that neither he nor Pegg were at any point approached regarding "McSpaced" and will have no involvement.[12] Wright expressed that he was upset that "they would a) never bother to get in touch but still b) splash me and Simon's names all over the trade announcements and infer that we're involved in the same way Ricky & Steve were with The Office."

Grrr.

 

[-Psy-]

Why do they always feel the need to have an American version of a British comedy?

 

[JFry]

Because some guy in a suit thinks the american audience is too intolerant of other cultures for it to make money. He's probably right.