I would most definitely bring Black Books back! I love it.
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Quote: NickTheDon @ May 13 2008, 5:26 PM BSTI think I'm going to be too scared to watch any of the American version in case they completely ruin it for me!
It's been cancelled anyway.
Quote: NickTheDon @ May 13 2008, 5:26 PM BSTMore Black Books would be fantastic. I wasn't such of a fan of the last 2 series though, if they could recapture the form of the first series it would be brilliant.
I would dearly love for Spaced to make a comeback one day. I think I'm going to be too scared to watch any of the American version in case they completely ruin it for me!
OMG I hadn't realised there was an American version. Please God, no.
I've just finished watching - or should I say 'enduring' - an online showing of the US first pilot of 'Red Dwarf' and I dearly wish the thought had never crossed my mind...
Quote: Jolanta Zofia Nowak @ May 13 2008, 6:08 PM BSTOMG I hadn't realised there was an American version. Please God, no.
I've just finished watching - or should I say 'enduring' - an online showing of the US first pilot of 'Red Dwarf' and I dearly wish the thought had never crossed my mind...
When I first heard of it I thought it was a joke. Spaced is so English it hurts, I can't really see how they can convincingly Americanise it.
Black Books! Also Father Ted, but the main actor died. Aaaaw.
Quote: Jolanta Zofia Nowak @ May 13 2008, 6:08 PM BSTOMG I hadn't realised there was an American version. Please God, no.
I've just finished watching - or should I say 'enduring' - an online showing of the US first pilot of 'Red Dwarf' and I dearly wish the thought had never crossed my mind...
Rejoice! I just saw an article on the home page that says the US version isn't likely to go ahead as apparently the pilot wasn't very good at all:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/news.php?story=000443
Thank the lord.
Erm...
Quote: Aaron @ May 13 2008, 6:06 PM BSTIt's been cancelled anyway.
Do people not read?!
Quote: Aaron @ May 14 2008, 9:57 AM BSTErm...
Do people not read?!
Er, my reading of it seems to produce 'it is believed' rather than any statement of fact...
Just a minor point, I know, but there you go.
Quote: NickTheDon @ May 14 2008, 1:16 AM BSTRejoice! I just saw an article on the home page that says the US version isn't likely to go ahead as apparently the pilot wasn't very good at all:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/news.php?story=000443
Thank the lord.
Judge for yourselves:
Quote: NickTheDon @ May 13 2008, 6:10 PM BSTWhen I first heard of it I thought it was a joke. Spaced is so English it hurts, I can't really see how they can convincingly Americanise it.
Absolute nonsesne, typical pub-bore speak as Gervais puts it.
'...so english it hurts'...um, yet it references American pop culture pretty much non-stop. Nice one.
I also would like to see a return of Black Books. They never really wrapped it all up and I feel it had a lot more mileage in it.
I miss those characters 
Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 14 2008, 11:50 AM BSTAbsolute nonsesne, typical pub-bore speak as Gervais puts it.
'...so english it hurts'...um, yet it references American pop culture pretty much non-stop. Nice one.
I'm not defending him, but I'm pretty sure that what something references plays little-to-no part in how (insert nationality here) it is. It's the way in which the reference is made. And Nick seems to believe that that style and tone of homage, reference, etc, is very English.
Yeah there are lots of Star Wars and comic book references and things, but I just think the characters are very English, or not American at all at least.
I don't think the idea of a man and woman pretending to be in a relationship to get a house would work in an American comedy. I could see them turning Daisy into a ditzy blonde bimbo and brutalising Nick Frost's character and have him worshipping the Iraq war or something. Of course I could be wrong, I just don't see it working at all. But the American Office was pretty successful and I thought it would bomb, so what do I know.
FATHER TED!!
Father Ted would be impossible without Dermot Morgan!
There's a few that I wouldn't want to bring back for fear of spoiling them. While I'd love a few more episodes of Blackadder, I'd be a bit scared in case it was terrible. The one off episodes for Comic Relief were pretty ropey too.
Quote: Griff @ May 14 2008, 7:21 PM BSTI don't think the idea of a man and woman pretending to be in a relationship to get a house would work in an American comedy.
Didn't this happen about a million times in Friends ? And probably Seinfeld too ?
Don't know about Seinfeld, no one ever pretended to be in a relationship to get a house/apartment in Friends though. But to be fair you did have guys and girls living together when they were just friends. I can't put it well into words I just really didn't like the idea of an American version of Spaced.