spaced was the greatest tv show ever and this news horrifies me. that's all.

No. NONONONONONONO.

Grrr...

What profoundly disturbing news. "Spaced" is one of the funniest shows EVER (how could it not be, with the Pegg-Wright-Stevenson connection?). But the situation in itself--boy and girl pretend to be couple in order to share an apartment--is not inherently funny. It's the Pegg & Co sensibility. And the Englishness.

What a disaster. I will NEVER understand why the major networks here can't just show the original British shows, when they're so successful on the niche networks. Why does everything need to be reworked? Networks all over the world manage to broadcast American shows without recreating them, and the public is able to handle it. Do the networks really think most of us are too damn stupid to understand the British shows? Or can they simply not make enough money off licensing existing shows?

Now, I LOVE Spaced, but wasn't there already an American version of this show called "Ned & Stacey"? It starred Debra Messing and Thomas Hayden Church and it sucked?

Keep in mind, for every Office or All in the Family or Thick of It (despite not getting picked up, it was great) that works, there's always a Coupling, a Teachers, an IT Crowd, and soon (probably) a Spaced that fail miserably.

Whats next? League of Gentlemen? cripes, don't give them any ideas.... shutting up now :)

Really... no, they need to be stopped this can not be done, They weren't there at the beginning. They don't know how good it was! How important!
UK Version = Ewoks
US Version = Jar Jar

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.

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.

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.

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