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Friday
March 28, 2008

This can only end in tears

Female Jackie D | Category: TV
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I do not have high hopes for the American re-make of Spaced, one of my favorite British TV shows ever. Worse: Simon Pegg, who co-created the original with the outrageously talented Jessica Stevenson, has not been involved in the US version at all.

All of this just gives me an excuse to post this, which reminds me why I moved away from London and stopped drinking in the same month:

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I literally thought I was the Only. American. Ever. to like Spaced. I'd never even heard of another one liking it, much less loving it: there are no American websites for it, like, at all. You make one other person.

Comment by James Wiggum on March 28, 2008 8:41 PM

I catch Shaun of the Dead every chance I get. I had no idea Simon was a star in Blighty.

And I can see moving away from London, but stopping drinking? Vile blasphemer!

Comment by Bane on March 29, 2008 3:01 PM