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Are you kidding me. The original UK version should just be brought over. It's perfect. Unlike The Office, I can't imagine this working with American actors in an American setting.

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How do you spell canseled?

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Just plain NO!

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This is soooo wrong. Spaced was amazing as it is. This makes me cry.

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Noooooooooooo!!!

I mean, if it was done by the right way and with good people, but McG and a guy from Will & Grace and without even talking to Edger Wright?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

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It's going to be awful, they'll get everything wrong and it will just end up as a stereotype of geek culture like The Big Bang Theory.

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Why would they do such a thing????

Spaced is good because it's completely bizarre, every single person in it is perfect for the role & it just wouldn't work remade in the US unless they did a completely different show & called it something different.

Sometimes TV land execs don't get it! Sometimes things are funny BECAUSE they're BRITISH. There's tonnes of good stuff coming back to here from the US that I wouldn't want to see Anglicised so why bother doing it the other way round.

Oh, and another example of why not to do it - Red Dwarf - although the last series of that completely put the kybosh on it over here too (RIP!)

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I predict this will not be fried gold.

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Spaced is one of the most fantastic, well-written, amazingly funny shows the UK has ever produced. Since 1999 until only last year it remained at the top of my list for the best comedy ever made - holding the top spot along with the hotel season of I'm Alan partridge. These two were the pinnacle of comedy for me.

Then I found myself so surprised (as an English guy living in England) that America suddenly stormed into the arena with Arrested Development. If any show deserves to be broadcast and hyped-up, it was that gem of a show which is easily the funniest thing to come from the US since.. at least Seinfeld and possibly forever.

In terms of a remake, I'm pleased to see the show getting more recognised and more exposure, but the original was perfect. I'll follow this with interest but it would be a lot betteer just to broadcast the original show repeatedly! Funny, funny stuff.

The remake will end up being 22-episodes and half of what Spaced is. The storylines and references were so cleverly written you couldn't emulate that with a weekly show. Unless I knew Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson were either appearing or involved, I doubt this will be a similar show, maybe just a similar setup.

Still, at least it's beauty is being recognised.

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Please please please Just show the British version and move on. I do remember Payne It was painful!
In the name of all that is good Dont do it!

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Please dont do it. It will be Horrible, The Memories of " Payne" are truly PAINful. Just show the British versions, is it really necessary to Americanise EVERYTHING!!
Even the Office which isnt bad will never be as good as the original!

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I'm not entirely sold on this. Granted The Office transition worked but we still haven't seen the US version of The IT Crowd yet so I'm hesitant as a fan of the original Spaced to back this version especially without hearing any involvement with Edgar Wright let alone Simon or Jessica.

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Again this reiterates a point I made last week. American network execs insult their middle America audience and assume that they couldn't handle a show direct from the UK being shown on the main channels at prime time. As in every previous case, why can't they just show the British one. This is an example that would not even need much dubbing/bleeping. I don't recall any swearing in it.

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completely pointless as the brilliant original series was really a showcase for pegg's writing and wright's directing. there's no way anyone else can do justice to this... complete waste of time and resources. i agree with most other posters, just bring the original spaced to the US, maybe on sci-fi or a major network. bbc america had it, but there's not much exposure there.

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Another lover of SPACED here - what are they going to do with the pot-smoking episodes??? How will they handle them being on the dole? Will the landlady be allowed to be the chain-smoking wino that she's meant to be?

American execs, you suck!

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Spaced is untouchable. FOX will undoubtedly screw it up. They will water it down and make it into a focus-grouped-to-death piece of crap, and then cancel it after 3 episodes that they aired out of sequence. Then they will move on a possibly pillage Black Books, which is the third head of glorious british neo-comedy, imho. The Office US was a fluke because of the amazing talent that Gervais and Merchant assembled and because NBC was willing to be patient and take a risk. FOX cares nothing about the qualities and I am sad to say this will be a colossal failure.

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Forget about Payne, remember how badly NBC dropped the ball on "Coupling?"

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As an American who absolutely loves Spaced, I have to agree that this is really obviously a shit idea. A show as original as this cannot (and should not) be dumbed-down for a broader audience, which is what I imagine they'd end up doing. I can't even fathom "Hello Brian" without Julia Deacon's drunken lilt.

If it's any consolation, it probably wouldn't last long.

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No. No, no, no. I agree with the above comments in that Spaced was perfect as it is. The Office is a one-off and I love both versions, but Spaced will not work over here.

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I don't have hig expectations for this, but hopefully it'll be as good as the original like the US remake of The Office which is actually BETTER than the UK original). I just hope they do a better job than the just plain awful US remake of Coupling.

I'm not sure what's going on with the US remake of the IT Crowd, but I'm hoping they don't mess that up as well.

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