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 Oct 30 2007, 08:14 AM
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What are YOU looking at?????  Group: Senior Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-May 07 From: The Big O, Ooooooklahoma!!!!! Member No.: 6,356  |
If this has been posted already, then I apologize....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071030/tv_nm/spaced_dc Fox "Spaced" out on Brit sitcom By Nellie Andreeva 47 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox is developing a comedy based on the British series "Spaced," which revolves around two strangers who pose as a married couple in order to rent an apartment. ADVERTISEMENT The original series, which ran on Channel 4 for two seasons, was written by Simon Pegg ("Shaun of the Dead") and Jessica Hynes, who starred as the fake couple. Adam Barr ("Will & Grace") is writing the script for the Fox version; the network has committed to a pilot. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter The only bright side of this is it might help get the original released here in the States on DVD. People normally like to see the original to compare. Then again, they might not want to do that. Anything the US makes will pale in comaprison... |
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Oct 30 2007, 08:17 AM
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Addict Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,229 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 2,347 |
I really don't see this as a good idea.
Edgar has just posted a blog saying that they haven't even bothered to contact him regarding this! That completely sucks! This whole thing smells of no good. |
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Oct 30 2007, 08:25 AM
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What are YOU looking at????? Group: Senior Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-May 07 From: The Big O, Ooooooklahoma!!!!! Member No.: 6,356 |
Maybe Edgar, Simon, and Jess can keep this bad idea in permanent limbo. I don't want them to take one of THE BEST SHOWS EVER, and turn it into ca-ca. 9 times out of 10, when the US "borrows" a TV show idea from the UK, it ends in disaster. I guess I'm just a narrow-minded ole grumpy-gut, but that's how I feel.
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Oct 30 2007, 08:54 AM
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Addict Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,229 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 2,347 |
Edgar seems to think that he has no veto power on this
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 Oct 30 2007, 09:02 AM
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What are YOU looking at????? Group: Senior Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-May 07 From: The Big O, Ooooooklahoma!!!!! Member No.: 6,356 |
Yeah, I read that on myspace. God, can't we come up with one GOOD idea on our own here without having to steal from the Brits? Heck, we even steal their reality shows! All we give to the world is Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan. I do apologize for that BTW
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Oct 30 2007, 09:07 AM
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Addict Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,229 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 2,347 |
And if the shows are good enough to steal - then why not just screen them as is???
Do the US TV executives really believe that Americans will have some terrible aversion to watching English stuff? |
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 Oct 30 2007, 09:22 AM
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What are YOU looking at????? Group: Senior Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-May 07 From: The Big O, Ooooooklahoma!!!!! Member No.: 6,356 |
I believe they do. My brother and dad, with the exception of soccer, had an aversion to watching anything that wasn't from the US (My mom, being the genius that she is, always loved British TV and film). I sat them down to watch HF and Shaun of the Dead, and now they're hooked. I even had my dad watching Top Gear with me now (BTW-they showed Pegg's epi tonight. Brilliant!!!)
I've basically converted to Brit TV only. The only American show I watch anymore is Lost. Sadly though, many Americans are snobs when it comes to TV. Most of them don't even know that most of what they're watching comes from Britian, as does many of the actors they love soooo much. My aunt didn't even know Hugh Laurie was English 'til she saw him on one of my Black Adder DVDs. Sad, isn't it? |
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Oct 30 2007, 09:26 AM
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Fallon Group: Senior Members Posts: 10,262 Joined: 17-December 04 From: The Scary-Go-Round Member No.: 2,946 |
We can only hope that Fox will dick it around like so many other shows and it'll get cancelled after a couple of episodes.
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Oct 30 2007, 09:45 AM
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QUOTE (ipse dixit @ Oct 30 2007, 09:26 AM) We can only hope that Fox will dick it around like so many other shows and it'll get cancelled after a couple of episodes.  McG might be directing too - oh joy... http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797497...d=1236&cs=1&p=0 |
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Oct 30 2007, 09:48 AM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
In a perverse kind of way, I'm actually interested to see what they will do with this!
She's probably too old for it now, but Bea Arthur for Marsha?! 
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Oct 30 2007, 10:06 AM
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Feel the Rainbow Group: Senior Members Posts: 4,717 Joined: 4-February 05 From: Sitting between Civil Liberties and the Data Protection Act Member No.: 3,341 |
I'm with Raven on seeing how it might work out.
Who know...maybe there will be a 3rd series (albeit in a weird US way) -m0r |
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Oct 30 2007, 10:22 AM
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Space Cowboy Group: Blokes in Charge Posts: 14,557 Joined: 1-October 04 From: Mercy Member No.: 2,262 |
This is stirring a kind of macabre interest in me; I'm having Caroline in the City type visions of what the show would look like with Tim the aspiring artist and Daisy the aspiring writer sharing their Manhattan loft conversion.
Brian is the weird eccentric living downstairs, played in a Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd's character from Taxi) kind of way, with Twist being Daisy's glamorous but bubble-headed best friend from her High School days (missing the point, she probably does work for a NY fashion house). Mike would be slightly dim-witted college roommate of Tim's, who lurches from one relationship to another alá Joey from Friends. God what a road accident - it can't fail! |
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Oct 30 2007, 10:33 AM
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Feel the Rainbow Group: Senior Members Posts: 4,717 Joined: 4-February 05 From: Sitting between Civil Liberties and the Data Protection Act Member No.: 3,341 |
Let's set up really poor casting for now.
Brian Krause (aka Leo from Charmed) as Tim... I was going to do more but I've hit rock bottom already. Maybe Wil Wheaton as Brian, that might actually work... -m0r |
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Oct 30 2007, 10:33 AM
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Dreaming my life... Group: Senior Members Posts: 3,593 Joined: 3-October 04 From: Lots of different places. Member No.: 2,336 |
If this goes ahead, I think they should have Simon, Jess & Edgar as co-writers or at the very least, script editors.
If this isn't the case, I hope they do something original with it: It's fair enough to have the same characters or plot set ups,... but they should really have new script/jokes... otherwise it's just a poor quality cover version, ...and they might as well overdub the original with american accents. It's gonna be crap though, isn't it?... 
This post has been edited by Jon 79: Oct 30 2007, 10:36 AM |
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Oct 30 2007, 10:34 AM
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Death of The Party Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,893 Joined: 5-January 06 Member No.: 4,801 |
Fuck it.
We should all go & audition. |
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