Don’t Watch “Spaced…”
The Guardian has posted a story about the American version of Spaced being put together by McG of Charlie’s Angels fame. For those who may not know or remember, Spaced was created by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (Nee Stevenson). Pegg played the Editor-in-Chief in the 2005 episode of Doctor Who, The Long Game while Hynes appeared as Joan in the 2007 Hugo nominated two-parter Human Nature/Family of Blood.
According to the article (which can be read in full here) Pegg and Hynes are not involved with the production at all even though producers of the US version are using Pegg’s name with the project. Pegg admitted that he has no legal right to be involved with the project due to the original contract he signed. He has no objections to a US adaptation but would have liked to have been called. Hynes on the other hand has said in her saucy way, that she’d like to remake McG’s Charlie’s Angels films and call it Charlie’s Angle’s “about three female architects who love to design buildings, make biscuits and wear button-up cardigans.” She also called for a boycott of the show.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Dru Id // Mar 31, 2008 at 1:21 am
while i can appreciate that point of view do to copywrite law you can’t get the uk version of Spaced here in the us cause the deal made to use the star wars orginal music was only for the UK so if you don’t have a regon free dvd player and a buddy in england your out of luck
2 Richard Kirsch // Mar 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm
“Spaced” series one and two have aired on BBC America (though I can’t recall if they substituted the music or not) and the DVD is coming out in July. Read Quint’s interview with Simon Pegg here at Ain’t It Cool News.
3 Jordan // Apr 1, 2008 at 12:39 am
They also aired it on Showtime for a spell a year ago.
4 Chad // Apr 2, 2008 at 4:17 am
I am not pleased with another “let’s butcher Brit tv, for North American”, it will not have the same feel at all. I am happy with my regular”Spaced”, in Canada they had it on Showcase. I don’t think they changed it at all, might of Bleeped it, but hey, better that than a rehash.
5 Richard Kirsch // Apr 2, 2008 at 11:18 am
Chad: I am not pleased with another “let’s butcher Brit tv, for North American”
Sometimes it works, like “All In The Family”, “Sanford and Son”, “The Office”, and sometimes not, “Coupling”. I’d really like to see the US version of “Life On Mars” though. They made the pilot, but it wasn’t picked up.
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