Spaced

Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, directed by Edgar Wright, and broadcast on Channel 4. It is notable for its almost constant dropping of pop-culture references. Two series of seven episodes have been broadcast (in autumn 1999 and spring 2001). The first series was a nominee for Best TV Sitcom in the 1999 British Comedy Awards.

Future

A third and final series has been planned for some time (with Simon Pegg joking that it would end with a Blake's Seven style shoot-out) but a rumoured movie is not on the cards. Edgar Wright told the official fan website spaced-out that he is "torn" about making more Spaced but that "we have genuinely talked about it and have some neat ideas that could work in a Before Sunset / Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? kind of way".

Related Topics:
Blake's Seven - Before Sunset - Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

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Instead, many see the movie Shaun of the Dead as essentially a spin-off of the series, featuring many of the same actors and set out in much the same way. Wright, however, points out the differences: Shaun has many fewer pop-culture and movie references, and tries to avoid the clichés of recent horror parodies in favour of a more naturalistic style as its story progresses.

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The success of Shaun of the Dead was unprecedented, both in Britain and America, and for a time a sequel was hinted, but was eschewed in favour of resurrecting Spaced for a third series.

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