Blogs your wayDan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Julia Davis (Nighty Night, Human Remains) and Jessica Hynes (Spaced, The Royle Family) have partnered for the new BBC2 comedy pilot Lizzie & Sarah , playing two fiftysomething suburban housewives who are ignored by their selfish husbands, but are inspired by the tragic death of a teenager to take revenge. The trailer has been released and is embedded above. If you're a fan of very dark comedy,...
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 03/17/2010
After a few weeks when I couldn't think of much to say I was wondering if I was getting bored of Twitter. Then on Thursday the Bush Theatre was overrun with Germans, which led to jokes that were completely new and in no way dodgy. And on Friday I hit the motherlode, as Your Country Needs You , the show to choose this year's Royame Uni Eurovision entry, was on TV. UK Eurovision entries haven't exactly...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Over the years American television networks have tried to capitalize on hit shows started in other countries. The results have been mixed at best (Awesome- Sanford and Son, The Office ...Not Awesome- Coupling, Life on Mars, Red Dwarf ...I could go on). Last week someone on this website posted a video from the pilot for the failed Americanized version of the show Spaced . This short video made me want...
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2010
If you cast your mind back a long way, you'll recall that film director and TV producer McG (in the negative column: Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels 2, Fast Lane et al; in the plus column: Supernatural , erm) wanted to remake Channel 4's Spaced for Fox TV in the US. He didn't ask any of the original cast – Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Mark Heap – or director Edgar Wright; in fact, the...
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 12/14/2009
You may notice that the guy with the mustache is Mark Heap aka Brian the artist from SPACED:
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
(1) You can now watch both Spaced and Green Wing on Hulu. The former is the co-creation of Simon Pegg and Jessican Stevenson and was directed by Edgar Wright. Pegg and Wright went on to make Shaun of the Dead...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mondays at 10pm on Dave from tonight onwards is time for a re-run of the magic that is "Spaced". Comedy gold with Simon Pegg as Tim Bisley, Jessica Stevenson as Daisy Steiner, Mark Heap as Brian Topp and Katy Carmichael as Twit Twist. Also look out for an early appearance by Peter Serafinowicz as Duane Benzie and Michael Smiley as "Tyres".
Christopher Fowlers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
I find it hard to keep comedy out of the Bryant & May novels, but my sense of humour is very particular. Every decade has produced something wonderful, from Hancock to Python to Peep Show, and I’ve realised that while there were shows I hated (’The Royle Family’) I best enjoy a surreal mix of [...]
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
It was around this time a decade ago that Channel 4 aired the first episode of now cult-smash sitcom Spaced . I'm not really sure how well received the show was from the off, but I remember falling in love with it from day one. Anyway, in order to celebrate this wonderful sitcom I'm racking my brain to come up with my ten favourite (in no particular order) movie references squirreled away in the series....
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows , OpEd , Web , Celebrities , Reality-Free Hulu has been making all the right, super-sweet moves lately, at least in my book. Not only is the site streaming the marvelous British comedies Peep Show and Green Wing , but now Spaced is on Hulu, too . Spaced ! You can tell I'm excited because I put an exclamation mark on it. The show has been available on DVD in the States...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Edgar Wright's brilliant series, Spaced , is now on Hulu! Spaced is the story of enthusiastic but directionless Daisy Steiner (played by Jessica Hynes) and wired urban surfer Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg), two twenty-somethings who lie about being a 'professional married couple' in order to get tennancy of a London flat. A grunge sit-com for a slacker twenty-something generation. The series also features...
The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
First off, a big thanks to the guys who run the Radio 4 Twitter feed for being so complimentary about our weekly Turn off the TV radio previews. It’s really appreciated. The Saturday Play: J’Accuse Radio 4, Saturday 2.30pm Emile Zola’s open letter to...
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
The BBC has confirmed that a third series of the popular Lark Rise to Candleford has been commissioned, with filming due to start in the summer for 12 Vote(s)
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 04/05/2009
A sketch from the second series of Big Train starring Simon Pegg, Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon ...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Richard Metzger is the current Boing Boing guest blogger Reclusive British comedy genius Chris Morris came out with his darkly surreal masterpiece of weirdness, "Jam" (based on his "Blue Jam" radio show) in 2000, but sadly because of expensive music rights issues, "Jam" has seldom been seen outside of the UK. This is a shame, because "Jam" is a uniquely...um...
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