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SHAUN Lovers!! SPACED Coming To BBC America!!
I am – Hercules!!
Mark those calendars! “Spaced,” the 1999 British sitcom from the team behind the 2004 zombie comedy “Shaun of the Dead” - writer-actor Simon Pegg, director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost - is coming to BBC America June 23.
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Thanks to “Alexa D” for the heads up!
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i'll have to check this one out...yeah, that's all i've got.
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A top three contender for best half-hour live action comedy of all time. Spaced is sublime and hilarious. Do not miss it.
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dont be stupid, you cant drink a pint of bovril
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Is everyone who loved Shaun going to enjoy it. There are some Brit-coms (I think I just made that up) that I like and some that are just not for me.
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...I've got some Fucking Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket
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Hey Herc or whoever, HBO has just announced that they will not be picking up the options of the cast from "Deadwood." I guess this season is the last. Shit!
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spaced and peep show, you guys will be spoilt for choice ;)
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...EVERYONE will love Spaced. Shaun of the Dead fan or not! It's brilliant. Also, those of you who do love sotd will be able to see all that kind of humour in all it's original glory! Fuck it, I'm gonna watch it again on DVD tonight now......
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I haven't seen SPACED yet, but as a SHAUN OF THE DEAD fan, I'll check out anything Simon Pegg is in. (Yep, even MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III.) As great of an addition this is to BBC America's lineup, it would be nice if they started airing episodes of the original DOCTOR WHO series, especially since most of the PBS stations have stopped airing them. And since Sci Fi passed on classic WHO, you would think BBC America would be a natural choice. You'd THINK that, anyway...
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showing SPACED for a long time. I first started watching it last year. What the hell?
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...yeah, you'd THINK that. But they won't, standard. Also, for any Simon Pegg fans out there, you may want to check out 'Big Train'. It was a BBC sketch show that aired, I think, between series 1 & series 2 of Spaced. Absolutely Brilliant, Pegg is amazing in it. There's even a sketch with Nick Frost in it! Lege.
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Spaced is fantastic, but you have to stick around afterwards for Peepshow. Its one of the best comedies ever. Shaun / Spaced lovers are gonna love it. Sweet.
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Modern music is a big part of this show's charm/vibe. I remember reading an interview with Simon Pegg where he was implying Spaced would never air in the US. Re-obtaining the music rights for the States would cost too much $ and that no one involved with the show was willing to change the music.
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I thought last year HBO said they were picking it up for two more seasons, meaning that we'll at least get a season 4. They better not put an end to the best motherfucking show on t.v. I wanna see how many psychopaths Garret Dillahunt can play (not counting Jesus)
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The first few episodes were a little uneven, but once they hit their groove this series rocked! The episode with the mock gun fights still leaves me rolling. No sit com has a higher geek pop culture quota.
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I'm British and I think that this site is totally over-hyping both Spaced and Dr Who. Sometimes I honestly think that they get special 'good' versions of these shows in the US judging by the praise heaped on them. I gave the new Doctor Who a fair chance when it first aired last year but after watching shows like Buffy, The Shield, Firefly, Sopranos and BSG and then watching Dr Who - the difference in quality is astonishing. And I ain't talking about special effects or sets (although the effects are invariably shit) - I'm talking about story, continuity and characterisation. Judging by the hype a few British shows get on this site some of you yankee-doodles are going to feel raped when you actually tune into things like Spaced & Dr who.
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...there is something wrong with you. I'm afraid you have herpes.
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i thought i was the only person (or limey) who hadnt lost it. I guess there all stuck with the addage that british means best. If thats the case then they can have all those last of the summer wine stuff because we sure as hell dont want them. if we had an american rating system, those shows like who, spaced and office wouldnt hold up at all. this world is scary. although not as scary as using manequin people for two episodes, and thinking you've actually produced something of quality.
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I've got nothing after that.
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"GET OUT!!"
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on my birthday no less!!
AAAAAAAAH!!!
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...you're trying to compare DOCTOR WHO to THE SOPRANOS and BSG. DOCTOR WHO isn't a heavy, broody drama, nor is it supposed to be one. It's a light, family-friendly, sci-fi adventure series that takes itself far less seriously than you and ShoulderDevil apparently do. Just kick back, put on some DOCTOR WHO and have some FUN, for crying out loud. Not everything on TV needs to be week after week after week of getting your collective asses kicked by Cylons.
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is the greatest setpiece ever to be broadcast on television.
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muy excellente!
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"Like I said, no hard feelings." As long as they air this unedited, it will be a good thing. I honestly can't see Lucas letting them use the Star Wars music again after how badly they trashed Episode 1, though.
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. . . is in for a big ass treat. I was so fucking pissed when Bravo or Trio or whatever network stopped playing it in the U.S. And a fanboy pleasing show is a fanboy pleasing show no matter where in the world you live. I can't believe anyone posting at AICN would think Spaced is overrated. I still have faith in this coming out on DVD in Region 1. And before anyone starts preaching to me about DVD players that are regionless or tinkered with I say FUCK YOU, TOOL.
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Spaced is a fanboys wet dream. Every character on that show is golden. Mark Heap as Brian is comic genius and steals every scene he's in! The episode with Vulva (the transgender) had me on the fucking floor the first time I watched it. Shit, I've been into this show for years, and I'm happy a wider audience will finally get a crack at it and I can stop lending out my DVDs. As for Nick Frost...he was good in Shaun, but he will always be Mike to me...the fucker that got got kicked out of the army for stealing a tank and trying to invade France!! BTW..his new Show, Hyperdrive was pretty funny too..
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I wrote a bunch of e-mails to BBC America about puttin' Spaced on and finally it happens. It proves that there's not just a giant fanbase, but a god. I already own the 3 disc DVD set, but I'll watch, and probably tape it again. You can never have too much Spaced now.
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They all suffer from this british media habit of hyping every new show that comes along. Take Ricky Gervaise, please someone take him...away, far, far far away. to a galaxy perhaps. All the hacks in the uk were shouting genius, genius, oh we love you ricky. it was like everything that came out of his mouth was supposedly so hilarious. The uk media fawned over Shaun of the dead. is this the same shaun of the dead, that reapeated the scene of shauns plan to rescue his mum three times over, wasnt funny the first time. I liked the stuff at the start of the movie, were he is meeting his brain dead fellow employees, to have a team meeting, that was funny. however, the rest of the film just drags, occassionally, there are jolts here and there, but Edgar Wrights decision to drag the film out, ruined the movie for me. the constant backwards and forwards to the pub got tiresome. Simon peggs chracter had no redeeming features whatsoever and by the end, when it quite obvious that they have thrown every missed joke at screen, it was obvious that they kept the largest bulk of money for the end which was the destruction of the pub. Hyperdrive is not that good. Before people read this email and think he has got no sense of humour, one of my favourite shows was absolutely. it was a scottish comedy sketch starring jack docherty, the brilliant and beautiful Morweena Banks amongst other. I also liked the Mary Whitehouse experience, spitting image, favourite sketch is when they turned thathcer into the alien and kennth baker into a slug. Rory Bremner although that show should be a half an hour and mock the week and have i got news for you and the original whose line is it any way, that was a real blow when Harry thompson died last year at 45. But look at what he left behind, Have i got news for you, the ali g show, never mind the buzzcocks, in his absecne Lamarr must have been at home make notes in the way one would load up a gun, 2dtv, keeping up appearances and one foot in the grave. And my guilty pleasure of televsion is ALLo Allo. Some snobs may that was muck but the police man and his mangled french is one funniest things i have ever seen on tv. elo, gurd mooning, I was pissing the door, when I ard two shats. priceless! and yes minister/prime minister. In the uk they say that today is a golden age, if you can like morcombe and wise get 20million viewwers weekly, or some mother do have 'em same amount of viewers or basil fawlty is that not a golden age of tv?
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I can't wait to see it. I saw Shaun in a packed theater, here, and you couldn't hear most of the movie over the laughter. It was wonderful.
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... Shit.
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Spaced is the best sitcom of our generation but Shaun was half boiled. I think the influence of jessica was missing a lot. It seems that seperately the 3 are still good, but only together have they made something that borders on genius
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"Jar-Jar makes the Ewoks look like fucking... Shaft!" Spaced is immense.
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The look on Shaun's face when he couldn't take it anymore was priceless.
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Indeed, every single person who visits this site needs to see Spaced immediately, and then watch it three or four more times. Fuckin genius.
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If you are, or can remember being, a mid to late 20s college educated, but careerless person, with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture (zombie movies, console games, The A-Team) and a record of losing in love and having weird friends, then this is the sit-com for you. And if you aren't, well you are on the wrong site. Spaced rules...
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Honestly anyone who hasnt seen this watch it the comedy is brilliant the scripts well written and just try and keep up with the pop culture references the phantom menace episode is fantastic as is the paintball one, enjoy
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You're scared of mice and spiders, but oh-so-much greater is your fear that one day the two species will cross-breed to form an all-powerful race of mice-spiders who will immobilize human beings in giant webs in order to steal cheese.
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What is it about middle-aged english blokes getting all pudgy funster-like?
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It's really, really funny. Hopefully BBC America will not censor it at all or cut it to bits.
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...and now that I have your attention... Spaced is fantastic. Check it out. Every bit as good as Shaun (if not better) and my second favorite show of all time ... right behind South Park. (and it's a close second)
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I don't beeeeeelieve it!!!!!.Big up the junglist priest =)
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watch it. It is seriously quotable.
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the greatest irish sitcom of all time and one of the best sitcoms ever made. I would say best.
South Park is patchy. The episode about immigration was one of the funniest things i have seen years: thar stealing are jubes.
now repeat after me jack that would be an ecumenical matter. -
I first saw the first series of Spaced on Trio, I couldn't stop watching it. Everyone should import the series 1 and 2 dvd set from Amazon UK.
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...for saying hawk the slayer was rubbish"
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but it is just silly-surrealness done to a fine art. Spaced however is far superior. ----- Brian: That's chaos theory. The belief that the future is in fact a mathematically predictable preordained system.
Daisy: So somewhere out there in the vastness of the unknown there's an... equation for predicting the future?
Brian: An equation so complex as to utterly defy possibility of comprehension by even the most brilliant human mind, but an equation nonetheless.
Tim: [in dawning realization] Oh my god...
Brian: What?
Daisy: What?
Tim: I've got some Fucking Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket.
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For, those like me who grew up in ireland to see these fine comic actors and writers, send up catholic ireland in the way they did is compulsive viewing add to that our greatest satrist dermot morgan never got the internation stardom that was coming to him is and was a tragedy. He was a very angry man.
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For, those like me who grew up in ireland to see these fine comic actors and writers, send up catholic ireland in the way they did is compulsive viewing add to that our greatest satrist dermot morgan never got the internation stardom that was coming to him is and was a tragedy. He was a very angry man.
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I am always disapointed when this happens.Father Ted is as immortal as any other TV franchise that has come along over the past 10 years and since nobody else mentioned it,it had to be said.I never said Spaced was shoddy but since a few of the crew were mentioning some of their OTHER favourite shows of the past 10 years why not?????.Leave that sort of talk to the Buffy vs Dr Who people.I thought we were above all that =).Neither is superior....No offence but I support a football team not a TV franchise and today has been a good day so good day to all.http://tinyurl.com/qq4bn.
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Spaced is one of the funniest pop-culture shows ever made. If you like (or can relate to) Clerks, Star Wars, The Matrix, George Romero, guns, video games, skateboarding, getting stoned, raves, unemployment, art, roomates or comics there is something in Spaced for you. The characters are loveable, the jokes are hilarious, there's no "canned" laughter, it's filmed like a movie and the situations they get in are just classic. Fucking brilliant show. It's sad they only made 2 seasons. I would have loved to watch these characters get into their 30's (and hear Tim's (Simon Pegg) opinion of Episode III).
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