Details Finally Drop on SPACED!!! The One, The Only SPACED - finally coming to U.S. DVD!!!

YES! YES! YES!

This show was being aired in 99 when we in the US were still wondering what was gonna happen to Ross and Rachel....this is one of the BEST television series I've ever seen. I have it on Region 2 DVD and WILL be buying the Region 1 when it hits. My suggestion is taht you all do the same.

7-22-08

Awesome show. Glad it's finally out in Region 1.

i guess there's a limit to the subject line...anyway i was saying "and i thought american dad and family guy ripped us off"

would you wanna remake something that is already perfect... kinda like REC...

A smartass with tits (no, not Kevin Smith) writes one screenplay and suddenly she's in touch with all that's hip in society and gets to talk about it? Fuck that. I want to see 3 more successful screenplays before I have to be forced to acknowledge her "greatness."

Hooray for the US release!

Stupid question, but doesn't Warner handle the distribution of BBC's DVD titles?

TOO many people are clueless about this show. IT HAS TO STOP!!! SPACED FOREVER!

With at least one or two chapters devoted to the sheer awfulness of Diablo Cody's dialogue-writing skills. Honest to blog!

It'll make sense once you've seen it.

I saw Jessica (Stevenson) Hynes get on the train to London at Colwyn Bay station last year. It was 6:30am and I was hungover but by the looks of it so was she.

Be still my beating heart. She was incandescent in last years Doctor Who 2-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood.

And for that I'll cherish it forever. And Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Although they'd run themselves into the ground realistically, it'd be nice if Wright/Pegg/Frost spent their entire career making one film together at least every 5 years.

And watch these as a proper release. Sexy. Also, while I recognize that Juno is probably what got her the commentary gig, Diablo Cody was already a successful writer. People seem to think she appeared out of thin air. And why is Matt Stone on his own? Is Trey not a Spaced fan?

I thought that was one of the big issues, getting legal clearance for the music?

...as opposed to Diablo Cody who's "annoyingly bad". Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to finally being able to queue this up in Blockbuster.

..it's gonna cost $50 !!!. I've seen it for sale here in good ole England for the great sum of £12 ($20-$25). Still worth the price though i guess...

I *believe* I read on Edgar's myspace blog that all the original music had been cleared, but in looking over his recent blogs just now, I wasn't able to verify it.

Do we have to suffer her on everything now?

When Spaced was first shown here in the UK, it was scarily close to my life at the time (and still now, come to think of it!) – dicking around in North London with a bunch of quirky geeks who should have grown up long ago, discussing Evil Dead in pubs, smoking weed and going to clubs all night. Was amazed at how all their reference points were clearly identical to mine, but am happy to see that the show's also appreciated by people not from round these parts. I guess the language of geek is universal. :)

I'll celebrate the US release by watching both series through again – sounds like you guys get some cool new features though.

Is that the guy making the shitty new one?

I already have a decent bootleg set, but would love an official set...especially with new special features. But if "Battle of the Planets" by Fader Gladiator and the "A-Team Theme Remix" are missing, I'm passing.

"Jar-Jar Binks makes the ewoks look like..... fucking..... Shaft!" And Jeez - good news like this and still all people can do is dis Diablo Cody. Fuckin' ingrates!

Now get working on brining over Darkplace.

is a cunt

it all starts with little things like doing commentary on a show...

How the fuck did she get in on this? Seriously? Like I want an explaination. Even Bill Hader is a pretty big stretch. And why no Trey? Did Cody get on it, because her oh so hip movie with its fucking reference likely to Spaced's referencial humor? OHH wait she gets to be on it, because she is a female in hollywood whos ugly and still works. So she's fighting for the not hollywood looking girls?

You'll love it. Very jealous you get such esteemed commentaries though!

I swear to god - this is getting pathological.

You mean am I gay?

No, I mean do you rent the upstairs flat.

Yeah.

Are you gay?

Noooo?

And I agree with you Series7. I can only hope that she continues to get made fun of. Andy Samburg has started it.

50 American dollars will be worth about, what? 25 english pennies? Sounds like a bargain. Might buy it just for the Tarantino et al commentary.

The idea that anytime another man starts shooting at you with a mimed gun in slow motion...another man has NO CHOICE but to start shooting back in slow motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =45FBaEdZfgA

Mike "I fell asleep on the train and woke up in Sheffield"

Tim "The train doesnt go to Sheffield"

Mike "Oh yeah. I must have changed at Kings Cross"

Tim "None us have any military training, except Mike, who as we know stole a tank and tried to invaded Paris"

Mike *waves* "Hello"

Its just ridiculos that she is on that list of film nerds. Like I said Bill Hader is a stretch too. It was like they needed a women on the commentary to mirror Jessica Hynes, so they got her because she is popular right now. And probably Tina Fey was too busy/expensive to get to do this (even though her show 30 rock owes A LOT to Spaced). I guess I can just be happy that they didn't get that little pregnant boy from Juno to be on the commentary.

I've got some fuckin jaffa cakes in my coat pocket!

Mike Kovacs. That cunt knows what he's talking about.

Using A NEW HOPE as an example of Chaos Theory, praying to a poster of Buffy, "I once punched a bloke in the face for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbish", ending and episode just like Empire Strikes Back, the Hal 9000 freezer unit gaining sentience, the birth of Shaun of the Dead, Run Lola Run references, "Thank Fuck!", Nick Frost's absolute BRILLIANCE as Mike, the flashbacks to being kids and Mike still has a mustache, "It's not finished! It's finished!", Martha's constantly pissed, Tyre's "my work here is done", Muldoon dying in Jurassic Park done with club kids looking for weed, American werewolf in London's "I can guarantee I don't find this the least bit amusing."

If you like anything remotely geeky and have a sense of humor...BUY THIS SHOW!!!!

Guys, I'm serious. I can't sing this show's praises enough. I found it after i first saw Shaun and it's level of comedy blows even that movie away...

Awesome! I'm so glad I don't have to find bootlegs! < > < > My patience has awarded me. < > < > Diablo, that's meant as a compliment.

My computer geekyness is pratically nonexistent.

AYYY!!!!!

you can get the whole thing for $20 from amazon.co.uk. Probably even worth seeing if there's an easy hack to make your DVD player play region 2, unless you really want to pay $30 for that star-studded commentary track.

GET OUT
yey!

...don't get me wrong....it's likely gonna suck.

Still, it makes me wonder...

One of the things that I LOVE about Space is the casual drug usage. Tim is a full on pot head with Daisy the more "once in a while" risk taker.

I read a comparison of the pot smoking in space being compared to the coffee drinking in FRIENDS.

But I digress, will this be a part of the REMAKE? I mean in the UK in 99 they were airing likeable characters that casually used drugs. I feel like we'll NEVER get to that point in the US. Plus there were alot of Fucks and Cunts in SPACED...sure that's not gonna happen in the US version.

Who cares what she thinks?

Hey, let's all bash the inclusion of a feminist with a sense of humor because we're a 4th grade No Girls Allowed Clubhouse! You types make me ashamed to be a male geek.

that's a bombshell of an announcement. i just finished watching the series last week off a friend's bootleg discs. It's great. I loved every second of it. I didn't love Shaun of the Dead but now I understand why Simon Pegg is the man.

guests to sell the dvds. Why else would anybody(besides fans of the show) buy the dvd? If they see Tarantino, they'll pay the 50 bucks.

. . . has commentary by the actual talent behind the show.

"You can't drink a pint of Bovril."

Spaced is too smart, too entertaining, and too hilarious for American television. When Americans get a glimpse of this mind-blowing show, they will take to the streets, demanding a reason as to why they've been deprived of Spaced pleasure for so long.” - Mike White What a fucking tool. Waaaaaaaah, American suck, Waaaaaaaaaaaah.

...I think most of the anti Cody posts (my own included) aren't against any "inclusion of a feminist", but against the count that she has a sense of humor. Some of us just don't find her writing funny, in fact we find it painfully overrated. That's just an interpretation on my part, and by no means am I trying to belittle you or make it personal. Besides, as anyone knows, women are always welcome in a geek's clubhouse.

The BEST half hour of television ever made, and that is not up for debate.

So soon not only will I have the original S1 and S2 DVD releases and the triple disc set, but a R1 set too. I really don't care for the guest commentators (except for QT as there are plenty of references to his early works), but having Pegg, Hynes (nee Stevenson) and Wright back with nearly a decade of time and success since the original airing is surely worth a listen.

Fuck this, I'm off to watch Epiphanies and then do an eskimo roll with 13 stones in my rucksack.

because she's the "flavor of the month" in Hollywood, and quite frankly, she sees tacked on to the list of people on the commentary list. I would figure if you're going to include a female perspective, why not take an equally seasoned female with a irreverant sense of humor (Janeane Garofalo, Carrie Fisher, Penny Marshall , Amy Heckerling, and I could go on with Comedians) instead of the young "hot thing." She may be a femenist, but I guarantee she's not worried one bit that one reason she's in the spotlight now is her appearance. I don't want to start a fight here, but I think it's unfair to think we're all boy-exclusive when quite frankly,some others are right that Bill Hader is a stretch, too.

doesn't love SHAUN OF THE DEAD - that's just fucking inexcusable.

I say "and quite frankly" too damn much.

actually, I haven't seen Spaced, but I'm sure Young Ones is better.

"If someone ever tries to duplicate, replicate, or otherwise re-do this one-of-a-kind show, they're an Idiot!"
Quoted for truth!
And fuck your new TERMINATOR movie too McG(arbage).

You don't really have much room to talk. Other than the owning the site bit of course.

I'm just mad at her because her movie was a hit and mine wasn't. It's jealosy, pure and simple. But fuck her anyhow.

So it is finally released, but if it is a success it just gives McG and the evil executives a bigger incentive to make a shitty remake... That is soooo fucking evil... Anyway, as everyone else has said, if you are a geek in any way, and haven't seen it then do, there are so many moments of just pure brilliance in it. You basically have two different comic sensibilities (the male and female) that manage to coexist and then at magical moments combine to produce something unique. This is why Spaced is better than Shaun (which I love - Mirajeff is a fool) or Hot Fuzz, because they lack that other sensibility.

But can anyone 100% confirm this has all the music, I mean if the A-Team tune has been removed from the rave scene they can forget it...

I've been watching Spaced on youtube for farrr too long. I'm so excited. As for the American remake/reimagining/rewhatever...they CAN coexist. The American version isn't going to erase the original. That's not to say I'm all for it, but we don't have to watch it. I am curious though as to how/if they'll replicate Edgar Wright's editing style. It's not unique to him, but that's a key part of the series (not to mention his films) right there.

I know that music rights were holding it up for a while...

but yeah, if the A-Team theme is not playing when Mike is on stage I'm not buying it either...

Shit! Seems like a scene that they COULD cut the music out rather than buy it, but it's a GREAT callback to an earlier joke.

Seriously! That guy has not made ONE good fucking movie...and his tv shows SUCK! Yeah, Chuck sucks!!! Why is ANYONE hopefull aboout anything this guy is attached to!?!? Fuck him...I'm moving to Europe!

Actually I hate the bread of rat bastard film goers and the mentality that MST3K created. It created heroes that "talk in movies" and look down at the material they're watching. I have never liked that. Film is something I love - and vintage films and films from another era... are beloved. MST3K - started ripping on vintage movies - starting with fairly mediocre works - but then discovered they got better ratings with better films, that they talked through. The MST3K movie is the prime example of this. I love THIS ISLAND EARTH - and the film is so much better than the "comedy" they added to it. Now sure - MST3K introduced people to many titles that they may have never discovered without the show... but they were instructed to laugh at it and belittle the films - instead of watching and coming up with their own thoughts on the film.

I think the comedians behind MST3K were far more talented than what they did with that talent. I would have loved to have seen them apply their satire and parody in the creation of NEW content and new narratives - rather than crack funny.

...funny. Shame on all of you.

I understand you're offended by the mere fact that they never gave the audience a chance to enjoy the film on its own terms without the mockery, but I never thought any less of the movies (the ones I liked in the first place, anyway) they made cracks at. It's kind of like Family Guy's Star Wars parody. It parodied even the most serious and memorable scenes and apparently even Lucas was able to laugh at it. Making fun of something isn't ALWAYS out of disrespect even if sometimes it seems that way.

...are my favorite series from across the Atlantic.

...but some are so rife with cliches and just plain bad moments, that they just beg to be ripped on. Besides, some people can enjoy a good ribbing on films that they actually liked. I, for one, want to hear what Mike and Co. did for Cloverfield on Rifftrax, and I absolutely loved that film. It's just that sometimes the funniest things come out of the things you love. Which kinda ties back into the whole Spaced subject...it was a show that lovingly ripped off and ripped on the very films/influences/etc. they treasured.

And CINEMATIC TITANIC is just NOT funny. I don't know if it was responsible for breeding people that now talk and mock flicks in theaters as Harry says....douche bags are always gonna be douche bags.

But yeah, was never that impressed with the concept, execution, etc.

This isn't a feminism, or a girl being prominent in comedy, I mean, fuck-alive, she wrote one fucking movie that was critically acclaimed, and frankly, the only reason it was any good was the actors behind all her shitty dialogue. Now, I thought the movie was ok, but only during the last 2/3rds when Jason Bateman showed up. Everything else was horseshit, but really only by the dialogue. I love how someone summed up the movie: ELLEN PAGE I need to use the bathroom, as I've been downing delicious, high-quality Sunny Delight for the past hour. RAINN WILSON Sunny Delight? You mean the delicious orange-flavored drink containing a full day's supply of vitamin C in every serving? ELLEN PAGE That's right! I found it in the fridge, behind the purple stuff! Now relinquish the bathroom key geeves, I for shizz need to spout. RAINN WILSON I can barely understand you. Is there a reason you're talking like what seems like a teenager designed by a committee of adults that have researched youth by watching MTV around the clock? ELLEN PAGE Yes, and you better start talking like that too or you'll have no place in the movie, Dwight. RAINN WILSON Oh, er, uh, I mean that's one doodle that can't be undid homeskillet oh my god I need a new agent. ELLEN PAGE You're so quirky! And so am I!

nd do we get those as well?

I could probably name at least thirty or so British comedy’s that are better than Spaced. Not to say it doesn’t rock HARD, because it does. I’m just saying. And it’s nice to see Simon Pegg following in the great British tradition of fucking off to America to be underappreciated and a nobody, i.e. - John Cleese, Steve Coogan, and Ricky Gervais etc. Best Spaced moment? "Oh Brian you came!" "No, I just spilt my drink". Enjoy those exclusive commentaries you lucky bastards.

Someone had to ask.

more Alan Partridge and Father Ted.

I gave up on Spaced at the cute, musical montage that Simon & the fat girl share at the cafe in the 1st episode. Is the rest of the show in that "tone"?

That new "Doctor Who" series - yeah, I'm looking squarely at YOU! With a region-free DVD player, there is no reason to pay nearly $50 for these 2 short seasons. Grab the $20 version from amazon.uk. and have it by next week.

And Father Ted/Every show to bear the name of Alan Partridge beat Spaced easily. You Americans pick the wrong British comedies to give cult status. Well it’s more of a geek thing than a nationality thing I suppose. And guess what else is better than Spaced, Black Books. I could go on. But I repeat – Spaced is all shades of awesome.

She shows up quite often at the New Beverly here on Friday nights when she probably could be getting smoke blown up her ass all over town. She's the real deal, and many of you males would kill to date a cool, sexy woman who knows the diff between Bava and Argento. That is all.

please watch this..its better than the bbc original version of office..its on the sane level as faulty towers...please all take your time to watch this..its the best sitcom ever made for geeks who like comics, sci fi, horror and comedy and nostalgia...one word...perfect!!!

"I once punched a man for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbish, when what I should have said was 'Dad its fine. Lets give Krull a try and lets go from there". Genius. But the Young Ones is better. And now theres a Region 1 Spaced DVD can I have Rex the motherfucking Runt on Region 2 DVD. Like now!

Nothing is on the same level as Fawlty Towers. Nothing. Maybe Python.

for british tv shows, but not his own movies??

Jam and Brass Eye owns all... and who really gives a shit about the commentary?

The Diablo Cody debate was bad enough, now we have a MST3K discussion I don't give a shit about. Anybody want to start a fucking political debate? Christ, it's all about Spaced for now, fuckers. And The Young Ones??? Good Lord, that doesn't even compare to Spaced.

please tell me you have watched it and that in some way you are geek...cus if you have at least done one of them you will understand that at its very base level it relates to most of the people that come onto this site..its our epiphany!!mmm not sure if that is the correct spelling

Have the UK 3-disc set which will do me just fine. Wonderful show with as much hilarity in subtle details as in the obvious comedy, not to mention the geek refs.

Love the very last "touch" at the end of the documentary after they knock on the door of the apartment building.

Cricket bat to head...genius...long live the young ones...vivian!!!

Nice to know you watch bootleg dvds.....

Read my previous comments. I'm a huge fan of Spaced and of course I am a geek, (I am posting on Aint It Cool News). But, to me at least, calling anything on TV on the same level as Fawlty Towers is blasphemy. Also I dont think you have to be a geek to love Spaced. I have plenty of friends who I wouldnt consider geeks who love it. But if you are, you like that much more.

for Diablo Cody is on there is that she is now good friends with Edgar Wright.

*Magic Roundabout music plays*

But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate someone taking the piss out of them for fun. Look, I grew up on Gamera. I love Gamera. But damn if I don't sing "Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, that's why we love Gam-er-ahhh..." every time I see him. What you see as "belittling" and "talking down" I see as affectionate ribbing. Besides, if you're placing Mitchell, The Amazing Colossal Man, Godzilla vs Megalon or Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on such a high pedestal that the thought of someone cracking wise while they play repulses you you're taking yourself far too seriously to begin with. Which is weird considering you also say that MST3K created the "mentality of heroes who talk during movies," and you can't possibly be serious about that. I mean, come on: Nobody shouted stuff at the screen prior to the early 90's? Really? Because I've got a couple hundred thousand Rocky Horror screenings and every black standup act from the last twenty or so years that say otherwise.

The League of Gentlemen. Not including the movie of course. And before anyone says it - The Third Series was the best. I don’t care what anyone says. And just for the record Spaced is awesome. Proof - "I had some stuff to sort out" "Oh with Sarah?" "No. George Lucas" *cut to Tim burning his 'Star Wars Stuff' crying*

no hate intended ..i haven't read most of the posts cus someone had written a very long almost dissertation length response and that always puts me off..i think you need to go and thrash a minni with a branch..ceh i know nothing..i'm from Barcelona.. and i will take on what you have said, you have your opinion..but i love spaced as much as faulty towers...

On an unrelated matter: FACT X IMPORTANCE = NEWS. Congratulations to anyone here who gets that reference because your cool.

got it at an unbelievable sale price and watched it all in one day....from teh very first episode teh star wars, hooror, modern film, magazine and culture references are superb...

the emotion and excellent directing shows the skill Pegg and Wright have developed on the big screen with Sean of the dead and Hot Fuzz...not to mention the fantastic side cast it has...

Hessica Stevenson is great, Brian is fantastic and the landlady is freakily hilarious...and then there is Nick Frost...if teh show was about him on his own it would be pure class......trust me my American friends, watch it and enjoy it

1. Spaced - geek genius

2. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - underrated cult classic

3. Monkey Dust - mind-blowingly mental

4. Father Ted - fecking classic

5. Early Doors - gently hilarious

6. Black Books - twisted brilliance

7. The Day Today - Chris Morris' highpoint

8. Nighty Night - blacker than black

9. Green Wing - stylish and original

10. Peep Show - Gervais wishes he was this cringingly funny

Also good but didn't make the cut: Brass Eye, Only Fools & Horses, The Office, Extras, The Mighty Boosh, The Goodies, Flying Circus, Phoenix Nights, League Of Gentlemen, Ideal, Top Buzzer, Help & The Fast Show.

Avoid: The IT Crowd, The Catherine Tate Show, My Family, My Hero & Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.

Anyone else got a list?

if you get this then you are geek..whats an english translation of shinigami?...no use of wikidpedia cunts

Is it? IS it? What about this? Is this COOL?

As if.

dude peep show, not that i know how to do a top 10...but it should be in the top half...better than their sketch show!!

What’s wrong with the IT Crowd? It had some stinker episodes but it’s hardly on the levels of shitness of Catherine Tate or Two Pints. Rewatch the Gay Musical episode and tell me in all honesty you didn’t laugh once. As for your top ten. I love all the shows you have picked although most of them would only make my top 25 or so. Minus Green Wing - I just never got into it, and ive been meaning to check out Garth Marenghi for quite a while now. From your tastes I would recommend 15 Stories High if you haven’t seen it already. And also - Where the fuck are series 2 & 3 of Monkey Dust on DVD. And while i'm typing incoherently, The Mighty Boosh is very poor. I liked the first series but when they started giving screen time to the ape and Naboo (who just sucks the funny out of the scene). Now it’s just a Indie-Boy, Camden poseur crap of a comedy. And my top ten? I couldnt choose but it would definatly include Phoenix Nights (mainly because of growing up in Northern Working men clubs in the same vein), Fawlty Towers, The League of Gentlemen and Monty Pythons Flying Circus.

if you are asking of a season 3 of spaced..its not likely to happen ..although pegg has said they have thought about it but they have felt the constraints of being labeled as pegg frost and wright..cus of spaced..sean and hot fizz..it wasnt fuzz it was shiit in comparison..its probably not going to happen

The trouble with a top 10 ,ate is that there are only 10 spots!! I only started watching Peep Show about three weeks ago as my brother has the boxset with the first three series, and I caught the fourth entirely on youtube. Give it time and I'm sure it will creep up the list.

i'm about to start watching Monkey Dust...hope it lives up 2 expectations

I just think that after scripting father Ted and series 1 of Black Books, The IT crowd is a mahoosive step down for Graham Linehan. Everyone involved is amazing, but the show is definately less than the sum of it's parts. Richard Ayoade (Moz) stars in and directed Darkplace, seriously dude, find it and watch it, you will not be let down one iota. 15 Stories High I have never heard of, what channel was it on?

I would also like to add Crapston Villas to the also rans.

Kinda like an animated version of Jam, but funnier.

Its what you get when you graduate from South Park. At least that what a quote on the DVD case says...and I agree. And Peep Show season 5 started on Friday and it was as great as ever. I think im going to cellotape my remotes together and form a 'Megatron' like Jez and Mark

Goddamn night shifts!

I still think Jez eating a portion of charred dog was the funniest thing I have seen this year (even though it was from last year).

But I think it was on BBC Three. Its written by Sean Locke and Mark Lamarr (whom I didnt know could write stuff this funny). Its in the same style of Nighty Night and stars Sean Locke as the grumpy loner with his happy and cheerful lodger. Its like a darker Black Books in a way. And i suppose you do have a point about the IT Crowd. Its not worthy of Father Ted or Black Books, but I enjoyed most of it nevertheless.

I shall be seeking it out. As soon as you metioned "written by" and "Sean Locke" I was sold. Saw him at a filming of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and he was by far the quickest wit on that show, with a healthy dose of surrealism in his humour, which always sits well with me.

Dermot Morgan had died its the first time i actually had a tear in my eye that someone had died that i didnt know personaly...even recently charlton, diana and earlier as i grew up realising that, bruce lee, jfk, michael j fox..hold on thats next year!!!

Is it wrong that I lol'ed at that?

i own the original boxsets but would love to hear the new commentarys etc.

yes it is cus i feel a little bit dirty for saying it...lol

a fucking epic of a show,the set peices are hilarious, the storys are pure cheesy madness and it is all done soo seriously(in a comedic way of course) that it is lol funny the whole way through....

Father Ted, I'm Irish and it is soo funny and insulteing because it hits it soo close to the spot everytime...it depicts the Irish Catholic way of thinking soo well, and Father Jack is one of the greatest characters ever to be invented as is Dougal..pure genius

DirkD13.....I would def have to put Blackadder, especially seasons 3 and 4 in any top 10 of British comedy..some of those quips are timeless

to be at a point where we can watch brilliant comedy from around the world and discuss it...too many times i have been on aint it cool and have been dragged in to the depths of playground mentality..'us against you' but tonight have have had soo much fun chatting with people as geeky as me that i will come back to chat again tomorrow..gotta love this site...night..xxx

Going to be checking out Garth Marenghi after the praises ive heard. And I also cant believe nobodys mentioned Red Dwarf. Minus series 8 and half of series 7, the Dwarf would probably rank amongst my top ten. With Blackadder. And the comment on Spaced being the greatest British export since Winston Churchill is bullshit. Is Spaced the only British tv show to ever be shown in the US or something.

His racist Scottish episode where they speak perfect english yet all have subtitles....

It was about this rich eccentric genius and his goofy dumb side-kick and the genius' plots, kinda in the vain of Pinky and the Brain. Any one know the name?

"I hate alot of things. Fruits. Coloreds. But most of all...women."

Cut to old lady sitting at table as Bitch Killer comes in with a chainsaw.

"Goooodbye Mother!!"

Spaced was never shown in the US. Those of us that have seen it likely have ordered Region 2 DVDs of downloaded bootlegs. It is certainly the best British sitcom that I have ever seen...but I also love Pegg, Stevenson and Wright. but please give me some suggestions....

night

Alan Partridge is probably the funniest show ever made. Father Ted is brilliant aswell!

heh heh, not really, just 'avin' a laugh! :) Seriously, though, someone up there said Spaced is the best TV show ever. This claim is patently false, because Spaced is not called "The Wire,' and it doesn't take place in Baltimore, nor does it include characters by the name of McNulty, Bubbles, Omar, or Bunk. Now, best comedy ever on TV? While I'm more than willing to entertain that suggestion, it'll have to be pretty goddamn great to lay claim to that title while existing in the same universe as The Larry Sanders Show.

No UK love for Keeping Up Appearances or Mr. Bean? That's a a shame... Grandma is from the other side of the pond, I grew up on English comedy -- or atleast whatever PBS would put on.

Really funny. And kinda fucked up.

Darkplace, Monkey Dust and League of Gentlemen. All brilliant.

Peep Show is the other great comedy show to come out during this time period, and has also been ignored...

I've never understood the frustration expressed concerning Spaced not being released in the US. Why not just buy a Region Free DVD player? Every DVD player I've owned for the past 8 years have been Region Free, and but for my last one they haven't even cost much. Hell, when I lived in Hong Kong all of the DVD players were automatically Region Free. Just order one from them and be done with it.

but if it was my post you are mentioning..i meant best sit com ever for geeks..the wire is the dogs bollocks...that means good

Nathan Barley..its well browne..lol

it's a toss up between Nick and Brian for me.....

I had to dress up as a 70 year old Israeli woman once.

Reall?

i didn't HAVE to.

I looked back and it actually wasn't a post, it was the quote from Harry that was in the press release: “The greatest television show in the history of television! The gold standard of geek cool!” - Harry Knowles (Ain't It Cool News). Harry, I love ya, been here just about from the VERY beginning, but, dude, I think your statement demands some clarification... :)

The episode where his buddies congratulate him for getting a blowjob from a minor... Nearly pissed myself.

I said "Girl Power..."

Did you go like this? *makes peace sign*

Yes!

Most US DVD players have a simple hack code that is entered on the remote control. It unlocks the region menu and allows you to set the player to region 0 (and play every dvd on the planet). My 39.99 Target Memorex player has a 4 digit code...Spaced references are 8 years old now so some new viewers may not "get it", but the show is still perfection. I've turned about 5 people onto the series through the years.

I hear ya...but in that case, why have so many people here complained about not being able to watch UK DVDs - Spaced in particular - over the years? That's the bit I just don't understand.

The fast show or not the nine o'clock news? Or Crapston Villas? Also another British (may have been Australian) was that dramatic kids show where like kids ruled the world or something, there was a beach, it was on Nickolodean I think? Do any of your British blokes have any idea what show I am talking about?

About fucking time! And I love the subtle digs in the press release at the American remake.

It's been held up, allegedly, for the same reasons Spaced was, music rights issues. Of course, the growing consensus there is that the real reason the State isn't being released is that Mtv are incredible assholes. This argument, though highly conjectural, is circumstantially supported by the fact that Mtv are, in fact, incredible assholes, as the last ten years of their programming readily attests to.

If you're looking for alternate commentaries, the dvdpodblast.com guys have done over 150 movies and they're free. There is just no excuse for charging for mp3s, and most of the rifftrax ones aren't even funny. (Plus, they do a rifftrax on Predator, which is a capital punishment as far as I'm concerned). P.S Spaced Rules. Nuff said.

If you've never seen Spaced, you have to. The best comedy show ever, I can honestly say I never felt truly represented on tv untill Spaced came along. The best British programme ever, love it, love it, LOVE IT. If you only ever buy one dvd in your life without seeing it let Spaced be the one. You won't regret it. It's the dogs nutsack.

- and we'll tell you if Spaced fits the bill. Which are the shows that you have found to be pretentious?

But at least we don't talk out of them.

is maybe the greatest name for a chick magazine I have ever seen. That show is my boyfriend and I down to the last detail! He's a geeky star wars loving jar jar hatin comic geek, and I'm a writer, but I'll be the first to admit what a lazy sod I am. I love this show. I have never laughed so hard at anything. Best scene hands down for me, is when she tells Duane to pull her finger and then waves her fart to him. Or better yet, when she's dragging the box on a leash. I lost it. God I love this show. The american version is going to be rubbish without simon and Jessica. "Hullo Brian..."

Adult Swim all the time. I took me an episode or two before I started to see the humor in it. I still say Spaced is better.

I'm quite a fan of odd humored shows, and never heard of Spaced before hearing people drone on about it on AICN. After watching the first episode ( thanks to youtube ), I'm afraid I'm not getting what all the fuss is about. Tell me it gets better? I must admit I thought Shawn of the Dead was...em... mildly funny. I feel like I'm letting somebody down by saying that, but I just didn't catch on to it I guess. Spaced definitely had some solid laughs, and like Shawn it had a couple of really strong bits, but felt... well... it felt like when you were 10 years old and hanging out with you friends, walking through the neighborhood, or through the woods or something... most of the time you were just walking and talking and looking around... not really anything going on. Occasionally someone would make a joke or something truly exciting would happen to you for about 10 minutes and then it would settle back into "ok well, what do we do now?" someone would mutter that they were bored, and then someone else's mom would call them in for dinner and you'd all just decide to go home. That's what the first episode of spaced feels like to me... Good memories, but alot of dead time between them.

All I'm saying is nobody got jumped up and shitty when Charlie Kaufmann hit the scene. And he was pushed down throats just as much as Cody. I love Kaufmann, don't get me wrong. But what's good for the goose is good for the gander and I find the Cody-bashing highly dubious. Did you guys flip shit when Affleck and Damon won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting? Those guys were pushed pretty hard. Hype's hype, it's no different for her than it has been for anyone else, yet I see tons of people getting shitty about her. Since we're all in an AICN talkback, need I even invoke the name Eli Roth? Talk about overhyped...

because I've never liked having any "hot" item stuffed down my throat--particularly Roth. And with that I'll drop the Diablo topic also.

The book and interview after interview point out that the MST3K crew have a great love/hate relationship with the movies that riff. MST3K was such a cult show that I don't think the jackasses that talk back at the theaters even know what it is or would get the humor. In fact, I have met some pretty big jacksses, the kind that talk in theaters, and they HATED MST3K. "I can't pay attention to the movie when those guys are on." MST3K was never about making fun of people, it was about making fun or eras and sensibilities of the time. About directors and actors caught up in excess and ego. About being able to laugh when something might be both serious enough to convey a message but also full enough of itself to snicker a little at it. My primary example of the beauty of MST3K is their very last episode: DIABOLIK! I LOVE Diabolik. I was at the store on release day to buy the DVD. When I was a kid, I DREAMED of being DIABOLIK! And why wouldn't I? I mean, good GOD! But the MST3K of it is wonderful good fun. Poking at the masculinity and the back seat status of women. Riffing on the silliness that is DIABOLIK. I love DIABOLIK and I love the MST3K of DIABOLIK. I love many of the films MSTied as much as I love the MSTing of the films. The 50s scifi in particular is a great bittersweet love affair between the incredible optimism and often the unparalleled creativity they offered and the unbelievable and often laughable naiveté they displayed. I love THIS ISLAND EARTH, but it doesn't mean that there aren't some incredibly silly ideas to laugh at in it. ("You boys like to call this the pushbutton age. It isn't, not yet. Not until we can team up atomic energy with electronics. Then we'll have the horses as well as the cart.") Enjoying movies as the kids we are inside doesn't exclude us from laughing at ourselves every now and then for that starry eyed and fantastical optimism. A sardonic view and an optimistic view are not exclusive of each other.

SPACED is basically what every sitcom ever aspired to be and then more. When I was in the UK in 2005 I bought three full sets of SPACED for me and two friends and then bought a multi-region DVD player for myself and hounded my friends into getting them as well. I literally wore out my first multi-region player playing SPACED and just got a new one last month. Now I'll be able to wear out yet MORE DVD players. SPACED just led to some of the most fun cinema we've had in ages in the form of SHAUN OF THE DEAD and HOT FUZZ and how can we remotely forget...

DON'T!

I've been sad, sad, sad that I wasn't in LA for Edgar Wright's programming at The New Beverly Cinema as well as his introductions of DANTE'S INFERNO.

Ok, so, one last word on this MST3K thing. Harry, please don't blame MST3K for assholes in movies. We all get ticked when people blame video games and movies and comic books and dime novels for leading to the demoralization of our society, but we all also know that it isn't true. Correlation is not causation. The rise of ass holes in theaters is about the rise of the loss of decorum. The thinking that there is no difference between theater and living room. The thinking that all public space is private space. We only need to look at the rise of cell phone use in public space to know that people have lost all sense of manner and decorum and appropriate behavior in public spaces. MST3K can hardly be the cause of people on the bus or in the coffee shop talking on the phone about the abortions they had just as video games movies can hardly be the cause of violent behavior.

As my dear spouse pointed out, MST3K would be unwatchable if the MST3K group didn't love movies. They WOULD be the ass holes in the theater. Frank Conniff's last episode of MST3K was SAMSON VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN, and he points out in the book that he LOVES Mexican wrestling movies with a passion and that they HAD to do one as a last film for his last show. If you want to see just how much the MST3K crew loves film, I suggest picking up a copy of Kevin Murphy's YEAR AT THE MOVIES. Kevin was with MST3K from start to finish, and he loves cinema. YEAR AT THE MOVIES is his wonderful year of seeing a movie EVERY DAY of the year for one year. He travels all over the world watching film in the most incredible places. He derides bad film and he praises great film. He understands much and often doesn't get what draws people to certain film. He is a quintessential movie fan that love film but isn't afraid to say what he doesn't like. If you want to see the real heart of MST3K, I cannot recommend YEAR AT THE MOVIES enough.

It is,.....but Hollywood doesnt want you to own it on DVD.....:(

Charlie Kaufman is a recluse for one thing. And he didn't win an Oscar right out the bat. Matt and Ben had a decent career growing with small bits and big roles in small movies. Diablo, wrote a blog and won an Oscar. Now she is grouped with Kevin Smith/Tarantino/Matt Stone/Oswalt and to a lesser extent the SNL guy. Plus Kaufman's scripts are some of the most orginal works in recent times. Good Will Hunting was a lot deeper and smarter then anything Cody is able to understand. Like someone said earlier, had it been someone like Janeane Garofalo or Tina Fey I don't think it would have been a big deal. But all those other guys earned the spot (except for Hader, but at least he is putting him self out there) Juno wrote one dumb movie, tricked Hollywood that it was a lot witter then it was and now is a big star. I put her on the same level I put Perez Hilton, so think about how you feel about him. Just Diablo had big enough balls (or deep enough throat) to get someone to make her dumb script. I can't really defend Eli Roth his shit is over rated, but he doesn't have an Oscar and most people don't like him. Plus Matt and Ben know they are lucky fuckers, Juno acts like she for some reason deserves what she gets.

I love Peep Show like you wouldn't believe. If you have netflix you can add the first season (the only one released in the US) to your queue. You need to keep watching as it took me a few episodes for it to click, but when it did I fell in love with it. And now, via the magic of the interwebs, I can watch it the same night as my fellow Brits who didn't leave the UK for the US as soon as they got out of college...

Oh, I get it. Like Spaced, he can only make a movie that references other movies that came before it. A career built on warmed up leftovers.

So because Kaufmann is a social retard, he gets a pass? Because Cody got an Oscar for her first script, she's worthy of scorn? I invite you, then, to pour bile on Callie Khouri, who won an Oscar for HER first script (Thelma & Louise). I've said it before. I don't think Juno was the best original screenplay last year. But it was worth the nomination. And there are brilliant bits in the movie. Anyone who can't see that is either blind or willfully ignorant of the woman's talent. How you don't "earn" a spot on a commentary track, particularly when you were INVITED, despite having an Oscar, writing a TV show for Steven Spielberg, and selling two MORE scripts to major studios, is freaking beyond me. But I guess when you've got an irrational hate-on for someone, logic doesn't apply...

Wonderful show with brilliant characters, a clever conceit, quotable as all get out and great replay value. "Come on then Super Hans, let's get you some crack." Brilliant!

Honda are interested and so am I in some goddamn PEEP SHOW DVD's in the US besides the first season. Yeah I downloaded them from the interwebnets on bittorrent but getting sick of watching them on my computer. And yeah, everyone, an American PEEP SHOW pilot has been in the works for years and may be surfacing soon. Let's just say, just because THE OFFICE worked doesn't mean P.S. or SPACED American style will. Just look at COUPLING... wait come to think of it... the UK version wasn't funny either. Yeah, Nazi Love. Love is for Nazi's -Mark Corrigan JBL CREDIT London, UK

I really don't care anymore. Good for her for getting invited to do the commentary. My final thought is that her and Kaufman are no where near the same level. He went to film school and worked his way through the ranks, his scripts will probably be studied. While Codies fame is the equivalent to that of someone who made a clip on You Tube, and now gets to make commercials or get bit parts in TV shows or appear on Jimmy Kimmel. And Charlie is not in you face about how cool he is and seems to be respectful of his fame, Cody probably carries her Oscar around with her in a nifty hip fanny pack.

up there with the best episode of seinfeld. when she turns around and mos is behind the bar and the other guy is in the wheelechair I thought I was going to piss my pants and for that alone I forgive any of the lesser episodes and rate the IT crowd extremely highly. As for the diable cody hate as I have said many times when ever the general hate is so over the top and as vicious as it gets towards her I don;t care what anyone says..it is only happening because that person is successful. the hate towards diablo cody is so silly and riddled with petty jealousy that it is at a point where it is just pointless. most of you probably don;t even believe your own posts anyway. if juno wasn't a cross over hit and just an underground unknown film you would all be fucking creaming yourselves over it.

I am just going on a brief rant on Diablo for just a sec... did she actually ever see SPACED before? Just curious. Is the answer on the thread and I just glazed over it or did someone just think, "Hey, she's cool, and SPACED is a lot like JUNO, let's hear her take on it?" WTF? - and for more PEEP SHOW commentary here is Michael Bay.

i've never been afraid of holding a mans gaze, and i said 'this could be the most significant television event since quantum leap and I don't say that lightly'". o.k I more than likely fucked that quote up but darkplace is one of the best televison shows ever made. 'i'm a one track lover"

Most midnighters around here(midnight openings & vintage classics) have call backs of some sorts. Was just wondering your take on them.

It just won the Rose D'or for being the best sit-com IN THE WORLD. Literally. Can't complain about that. I second Slappy Jones's comments about the gay musical episode. That was really fall out of your chair funny. And completely OT, but I was shocked and over-joyed to see that Skins won best Drama IN THE WORLD. I was getting sick of failing to pursuade my mates to watch Skins because it's marketed as some hip "yoof" TV thing. It's so much more than that.

.... but it sounds like the best TV show ever. "BEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW “Hider In The House” (60-minute series) Broadcaster/Distributor: BBC 2 – UK “Hider In The House” is a hilarious and engaging children's hidden-camera show. The series pits the wits of children against their parents as they attempt to hide a celebrity in their house for an entire weekend." Teaching kids to hide adults in their houses - that's just amazing.

Blackadder!! My old man wouldn't ever forgive me for omitting this outstanding show. Um, can I make my top 10 go up to 11?

To plagiarize myself: For the life of me, I do not understand the appeal of this show. I've watched every single episode, and while I detected plenty of dry smugness and a massive overdose of that certain British brand of the grotesque (clammy faces that call to mind Kilmer towards the end of Tombstone, cigarettes that look as if they're filled with molten asphalt, surroundings dreary enough to make a Smurf start looking for a weight-bearing ceiling fixture from which to hang the noose, ...) I detected no real entertainment value. It was literally a test of will to watch through to the end, in the hope that I'd suddenly understand what all the fuss was about. But alas, no laughs, no promised poignant moments, no nothing really...just an occasional feeling of slight, but not overwhelming, disgust. I didn't even strongly dislike it. It was like a weak, quickly-dissipating fart. The one bright side: My poor-grad-student flat in the ghetto and my boring-as-the-next-guy life feel vivid and visceral and fascinating by comparison. Obviously, lots of intelligent folks disagree, and I'm happy for them. But personally, I find the popularity of this series completely mystifying. It's as if the pilot ep of Married with Children had somehow been entered at Cannes and won the Palm d'Or.

Some where in the lab is a sense of humor gland with your name on it. Seriously dude, not even a flicker? They must have used too much juice when you were on the slab... (sigh). Maybe it's just a UK Generation Meh thing after all. Go ahead and remake it then, see if I care.

referencing an old Kia-ora ad when talking about weed/ Tim drowning Lara Croft repeatedly whilst screaming "die, bitch, die" at the telly so that Marsha thinks he is going to murder daisy, The Clubbing episode where the pillhead starts raving to kitchen noises. This is genius stuff.

"I gave up on Spaced at the cute, musical montage that Simon & the fat girl share at the cafe in the 1st episode. Is the rest of the show in that "tone"?" No, that was a parody of the cute, musical montage scenes you get in corny rom-com movies. Fuck man, you failed at the first fucking joke. Maybe we got a little carried away in thinking Americans might appreciate this show...

Spaced

Brasseye

Garth Merenghi's Dark Place

Man to Man with Dean Learner

Peep Show

Coupling

League Of Gentlemen

Blackadder

Red Dwarf (although seen it so much it's getting less funny now)

Hyperdrive (more Nick Frost! Get it now!)

The Alan Partridge Trilogy

The Office

Extras

IT Crowd

Father Ted

Black Books

Absolute Power

Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe

I'm sure I've forgotten some but all of those are worth a view for our American cousins...

Fucking magnificent. Genius- "There's no evidence of this whatsoever but it is SCIENTIFIC FACT", Noel Edmonds telling people not to eat cake, Good AIDS v BAD AIDS, Elephant with its trunk buried up its own arse, I can do this for ages.

My favourite Brasseye moment was all the blowhard MP's complaining about the special when it turned out that none of them had seen it.

Wankers.

Thank God someone else remembered Vic and Bob in CATTERICK. That show was easily, for me, Vic and Bobs best work. And any Americans looking for British comedies in the same vein as Spaced? Father Ted, Black Books, Knowing Me Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam (if you have a REALLY dark sense of humour),Nathan Barley, The League of Gentlemen, The Thick Of It, The Office, 15 Stories High, Peep Show, Nighty Night, Monkey Dust, Catterick, Extras. And then there's the classics like Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, the first series of Ripping Yarns, Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly, A Bit of Fry and Laurrie, The Young Ones, Bottom, Fawlty Towers, One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses, YES MINISTER. The list is endless. I personally don’t care for Green Wing or The Mighty Boosh but I suppose you should give them a try. Avoid shows like Early Doors, The Royle Family and Phoenix Nights. Their amazing, but I don’t think they would translate well.

I forgot Porrige and That Mitchell and Webb Look. "Mulan, by my book its Eddie Murphy's 3rd best film to date".

Was the constant same shot of Brian Topp freaking out at the painting. That got old.

Are there any scripted US shows that get the remake treatment in UK? I believe that some game shows were ported over but I'm not familiar with any comedies/dramas that made the trip...

ITV also tried that 70's show.

It does happen, but the results are usually dreadful

Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Cheers are all awesome. I'm just getting into 30 Rock and am a latecomer to My Name Is Earl. I regret to say that I am unversed in The Larry Sanders Show, Sgt. Bilko and M.A.S.H. but I understand they are all classics. Any others I should seek out?

The only one I can think of was teh UK version of Married With Children.

It was called Married For Life, starring Russ Abbott. Predictably it totally stank and was canned after the first series.

=massive fail.

Garth Merenghi's Darkplace is comedy gold. So many funny things. The "one track lover" video, for example, literally made me spew beer across the coffee table. I also laugh every time during the credits when Dagless jumps for cover while holding the baby as an ambulance explodes in the background.

Reed says to Daglees "understood?" and Dagless replies "crystal".

Gets me every single time!

I know I have a sense of humor because I still get a huge kick out of Douglas Adams, and I can't imagine ever tiring of Life of Brian or Young Frankenstein. But I do agree, the evidence would seem to point to the fact that something is very different about ME, not the large numbers of fellow geeks who love Spaced. Oh well--individuality and all that. Though I'm kind of miffed that I don't get to enjoy it as much as everyone else. It just doesn't click. Maybe, at 36, I'm too old. Yikes.

Well, I'm 40 and fucking love it.

I know you did not specify an order, but I humbly submit that Blackadder is the single greratest comedic TV export that has ever come from the Isles!

My vote goes to Frasier. For me the undisputed king. Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, MASH, Simpsons, Larry Sanders Show are amongst the best. As well as the criminally forgotten Police Squad with Leslie Nielson. And are we counting Flight of the Conchords as American of New Zealandish (if that’s even a word).

(Not necessarily, but sorta, in order) The Larry Sanders Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Simpsons (though I haven't watched it in years), Taxi (if anyone tries to dispute this go track down the episode where Jim Ignatowski goes to get his drivers license), All in the Family, Frasier...to name a few...

Wow. Spaced is so exciting, the English are fucking up their english.

Looking forward to this release so I don't have to watch these on VLC media player anymore.

every time. that ambulance explosion baby dive thing is the fucking nuts, it really is.

finally, they havent aired this sucker in years, but to cross-promote the dvds, Spaced will be reairing on BBC America this July and will be available on demand too. So if you dont want to shell out the 50 quid for the dvds (which should be worth it for the commentary alone) at least you have the cable tv alternative!

ok. i never get like this on TBs. and i hate it when people do. if there is anything that makes someone come off as a stupid more than exclaiming, "if you don't like this then you're stupid."

all of this is a preface to say: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS SHOW THEN YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON WITH ABSOLUTELY NO TASTE TO SPEAK OF WHATSOEVER!!! please surrender your AICN i.d. and NEVER POST AGAIN!!!

this show was an absolute blessing. i sought it out on a whim after shaun of the dead and haven't been the same since.

and jessica stevenson (i refuse to give into the hynes business...she's mine) is the most absolutely gorgeous female i've ever seen. gorgeous in every way. nothing is more sexy than a curvy angelface who's funny to boot!!

No thanks, I couldn't eat a thing, my stomach's like a walnut.

Get it? Now it's like the A Team! How obscure! I started watching SPACED after this article, expecting it to be the second coming. It wasn't. It was fun, indeed, but there are more entertaining British series.

Hey just got the DVD - and I love it- I am trying to hunt down the song they use for the US release DVD Menu (also used in the scene where Tim and Daisy are seeing the Flat for the first time w/ Marsha) Anyone who can help just lemmee know via djb_comics@hotmail.com Peace~!