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An Office spin-off is nearly as bad as moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

No new Galactica 'till April? Who were the ad-wizards that came up with that one? I doubt I will give a shit by then.

Who's Coolio?

Anything remotely associated with "Mc-g" will surely *McSuck* that's McGuaranteed.

God, being a BSG fan is just about as bad as being a Venture Brothers fan. Adult Swim pulls that kind of "one year after last season's finale" shit with that show all the time. And what else is Sci-Fi going to air in the meantime anyway? Damnit all to hell.

My netflix subscription increases in value every time I read another TV roundup. X-Files season 4, you keep me sane.

Spaced in America? That's the one with Pegg and Frost but the U.S. one won't have Pegg and Frost? What? Why? Fuck I haven't bootlegged the original yet!

Why? Fuck!? They speak the same goddamn language - just give us the regular one!!!

Fuck! Why!? FUCK!!!!

I, for one, am pretty happy with the BSG news. For various reasons, I have missed the regular airings of BSG and, therefore, have been forced to catch up with the show on DVD. They still haven't released Season 3 (or Season 3.5, if such a thing exists). In fact, I haven't even seen a release date for the DVDs.

Hopefully, the DVDs will be released in the next few months and I will be able to be fully caught up on BSG by the time the new season starts in April. That way, I will be able to add my keen insight and all around awesomeness to all BSG discussions.

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.."

The only positive part about this BSG news, is that the Major Depression after No-More-BSG AND No-More-Wire wil be spread out over a year..

Couldn't we put channel programmers first on the cylon list??

"..I will be able to add my keen insight and all around awesomeness to all BSG discussions...."

Posted by: Ajax19 at October 31, 2007 8:52 AM
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Well hurry up, 'cause personally,I can't wait to have more awesomeness in my life.

As I mentioned yesterday in the WIMB comments (cough) not only will the US version of Spaced not have Pegg or Frost, but I also doubt Fox will keep in the laidback view of drug-taking. I wonder if this will mean they have to change the title too?

Seems kind of a pointless exercise to me. You'd be better off finding a region-free DVD player and importing the original.

What's next? Remaking Black Books with a friendly and sober shop-keeper?

But Tony died in Jacks ARMS!!!

No, really, I was there. Robocop turned the tables on Tony, stuck the needle of "kill a Bad Guy" juice into Tony and made good his escape from the bowels of back-door-prone CTU Los Angeles. Then Jack rushed into the room, cradled Tony in his arms and wept tears of remorse, angst and loss...

Tony coming back as a bad guy just totally one-ups Kim's cougar - methinks I'll pass...

And yeah, it is really hard being a fan of BSG. There is nothing on air even similar to it, you know, to kinda ease the pain of withdrawal...

Screw Fox and the Sci-Fi for ruining what could have been a perfectly enjoyable 2008! Lumps of coal in your stockings!

Oh yeah - and SCREW COOLIO too! Seriously, hip hop already digested the embarassment that was Flavor of Love (negative karma points for the cheesy title) and now Coolio?!? He of zero rhyming skillz and even less relevance?!? Is there some circus scale for hairdos to measure potential hip hop reality stars?

Seriously...

What the hell is October Road?

Noooooooo! Damn you Burrito!!! Not Spaced...Anything but Spaced.

Call me crazy but wasn't the relaxed drug taking pretty much the point of Spaced?

Also: they fucking touch Black Books and I'm cracking skulls.

I'm also not caught up on BSG only having seen the first season so far, S2 and 3 are waiting for me to get the flu so I can watch them in a sci-fi marathon of goodness.

It's not even worth the energy to rail about how used I feel by this cynical, calculating move on Skiffy's part. And of course I'll still be watching whenever they deign to throw us a crumb. But seriously, what's the point of the delay, other than to alienate and irritate the fans they have left? Don't tell me they have some ass-puckeringly awesome new spectacle they just have to unleash by January.

B-Slim,

I will do what I can to add a little bit of awesomeness to your (and everyone else's) life when and where I can. Remember, all things in moderation, including awesomeness.

With respect to BSG-related awesomeness, looks like you'll have to wait until April, just like everybody else...

Simon B - oh my god, what a dreadful thought! Fran and Bernard cheerfully sipping their lattes, instead of swigging from wine bottles; my soul weeps at the idea....they'd surely set it at a bright, sunny Chapters-like establishment (or the US equivalent...Barnes & Noble is books, right??)

With you all on the Spaced and Black Books thing. Bill Bailey as Manny is just perfect.

Oh god, they couldn't possibly touch Black Books.

Apparently the frakkers at SciFi decided they needed more room for "Mansquito."

I'll be reading from my Little Book of Calm now...

Alex The Odd - I agree the relaxed drug-taking was a big part of Spaced. People smoked cannabis for the fun of it and with no moral ramifications. I'm also pretty sure there was some E involved that night they all went clubbing!

I can't be certain that Fox will remove the drugs, but I always got the impression that on US TV, skinning up outside of a morality tale, was a bad a sin as sex or nudity. I would love to be wrong about this!

But in fun BSG news: anyone going to the movie theater screenings of Razor? 2 weeks before it airs on SciFi?

Fran and Bernard cheerfully sipping their lattes...

That's it.
I'm swallowing my Little Book of Calm right now!

Why would I pay something that I can get for free? Besides Sci-fi has garnered ZERO goodwill, I don't see why I should line their pockets. Why so they can pay for more WRESTLING? I don't think so.

I was still busy being horrified about the upcoming U.S. remake of Life on Mars when I heard about the Spaced remake. This has actually made me so upset that I've come full circle and am now very, very calm. But I can't say enough how much I hate the American obsession with remaking Brit shows. Just let us watch the originals!

Now I'm running through the various series of Black Books in my mind. It's our hangover TV, and something that our house is known for.

Good God, I love me some Dylan Moran.

I can deal with an April BSG start, but this crap about dragging one season out to two is completely cruel. My only hope is that Katee Sackhoff will kick the fake Bionic Woman's ass and take her rightful place as the real Bionic Woman.

Docsmartypants: Life on Mars, too?

Goddammit!!!!

It's not enough that you can't even fucking buy Spaced in North America (issues with music rights), but they're going to make a crappy American version?

Cue Darth Vader-esque "NOOOOOOO!"

I'm just. So. Angry.

Why would you do this to me, Pegg & Frost & Stevenson & Wright? Why?!?!

That's it, I'm packing up and moving to the UK.

If it's any consolation, we made our own version of The Golden Girls.

You'll be surprised to learn it was crap...

Apart from new releases, why do they even bother with regions for DVDs? Is the BBC really cutting itself off from the US DVD buying public by not releasing region1/all region versions? (I've got their ocean wildlife documentary in a region free version, so I know it exists).
And while we're on the subject, why don't all DVDs come with subtitles in 20 languages. I figure anything sold in Europe should have EVERY European language in subtitles.

A show about a women's prison . . . called "Prison Break: Cherry Hill" . . . hmmmmm. Now why would they call it that? I'm just blanking right now. Is there a hidden meaning there? Will there be new prisoners, inexperienced newbies who haven't experienced the unexplored aspects of prison life? Wait . . . I almost had it, but . . . no, I don't understand the title.

Seriously, Fox. I would think a reality show of real prison women fighting over new chicks and cigarettes would be more your speed. And resurrecting Tony Almeda? Pfffuhh.

In that intro, Keifer might as well have been saying, "Look we know last season sucked Cartman's vinegary balls; we're trying, people." Try harder, torture-man.

It's not enough that you can't even fucking buy Spaced in North America (issues with music rights),

Fuck THAT's the FUCKING PROBLEM!?

fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Mediocre "24" is better than 95% of the crap on TV these days.

Wow, 7 seasons already? That's like, 168 hours of my life. And 16+8 is 24... it's a conspiracy!

Now, how dare they play with my love for Tony Almeda like that. And what's with Kiefer's public service announcement at the beginning of that trailer? Maybe it's part of his community service sentence, and the part we missed was where he warns about drinking and driving and attacking unsuspecting Christmas trees.

While I was extremely upset when I read that they were doing a US version of Spaced, I got a warm feeling once I read the comments. It's good to know that there is a group of people here in the US that have actually seen it (even though we can't BUY IT YET! Seriously, if anyone is able to bootleg it and make it capable of being watched in the States, I will pay you for it.)

If it weren't for her current show on Comedy Central, I'd theorize that they'd cast the incredibly unfunny Sarah Silverman in Jessica Stevenson's part. I really can't think of any American female actor that could play Daisy convincingly (I should mention that I have a huge femcrush on Jessica Stevenson). I'm sure someone like Seth Green with get cast as Tim and David Koechner will end up as Mike and who knows which starletard they'll choose for Twist.

Shit, now I'm depressed.

Sarah: Yes, I'm sorry I had to be the one to break it to you, but Life on Mars is indeed being remade in the States. (Actually, I'm sure it was mentioned on Pajiba at some point.) It fills me with an indescribable sadness.

It's times like this, that I am glad I live in Australia - the country that realises that English is English, and that you don't have to remake things for people to watch them.

Umm....sorry about the shitty Aussie versions of The Kumars and Baddiel and Skinner: Unplanned. That being said - England isn't the only place being raped, as there is rumour of a US version of Kath & Kim in the works (and, quite frankly, I don't see how it can get worse than the original - talk about overrated shit).

1)I contend that like 'Lucy', no living female actually has the name 'Molly'

2)'Fetch me my ice-lolly!'

3) Oof, what's next? Blackadder? Keeping up Appearances? Jeeves and Wooster? Father Ted? I'd like to make a show called 'The British Person's Guide to Being British in Britain', just to see what the States would do.

4) No 'Office' spinoff, please. I was in the minority in that I had absolutely nothing invested in Jim and Pam as a couple. Maybe two years ago, but now they've just dragged the whole thing out for two long, and jerked around too many people on their path to 'twoo wuv', that I've lost sympathy and interest. And though I think Jenna Fischer does a really good job with her character, I think I could get more enjoyment out of a shark cartillage enema than out of Pam Beesly. When Jim asked Pam out, I thought, 'Crap-spackle, so they're actually going to do this?' Now, they're just smug and boring, and kind of cruel to Dwight. I don't know. Sure, I'm a know-nothing punk from the sticks, but there's some definite laurel-resting going on right now. We'll see how it turns out, I've only seen about half of the season, so maybe I'm out of line. So yeah, if I hear Jim talking about how he 'loves Italian food' again, that couple can just cram it with bastards. I know you have to give the public what they want sometimes, but...maybe I'm just a malcontent.

I should've proofread. Apologies.

Oh Sci Fi channel, why do you suck like a hooker during Fleet Week?

Seriously, their scheduling guy needs to be shoved out an airlock. They pulled this same stunt with Stargate:Atlantis (just shut up, I like sci fi cheese with pretty people and geeky geniuses) last year to the point where it was aired in the UK and Europe before the US. Yes, it's true that with SG1 gone, ratings wise, SGA and BSG are all they have, but they aren't gonna keep those ratings if they keep bending fans over and forgetting the lube.

I've heard tell that S3 of BSG won't be released until April '08, either. MotherFUCKER!

I love all you people that love Black Books.
But I think we should only whisper it or agree on a secret code, because they (FOX or other incarnations of Satan) WILL hear us and rip out our hearts.

Frack it all.

And how come I was the first to say it?

I can't get enough of The Office in any form. Which is where the impending writers' strike gives NBC a golden opportunity to air subtitled episodes of the French, German and French Canadian versions of the show.

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BRITISH IS NOT A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. For fucks sake, there is no point to Spaced if it lacks Pegg, Frost and Stevenson. DAMMIT. Stop ruining things, TV networks. Did you not see me gleefully dancing on the grave of Viva Laughlin? Have you learned nothing? Nothing at all?

And holy crap, so much Black Books love! Hee!
I'm with Loob though, we should probably shut up lest they sense the affection.

Jo 'Mama' Besser:

Apparently, you are not watching the same episodes of The Office as I am, because when last I checked, Jim and Pam checked out Dwight's inn, gave it an excellent review, and consoled him through his breakup. Cruel, indeed!

FYI - NBC owns the SciFi Channel. These are the same jackasses who refused to give BSG five seasons and are dividing Season 4 to 2008/2009 instead.

And don't let them blame the WGA strike. The BSG actors were bitching about the SciFi Channel and their intend last July at San Diego's Comic Con.

BTW - Razor is out on the web if you look.

NOOO! They can't ruin Spaced! I want to kill someone....

(I have bootlegged Region 1 DVDs because it's never been released over here. 99.9% of this country will have no idea it's a remake. Yuck.)

Jo 'Mama' Besser: Apparently, you are not watching the same episodes of The Office as I am, because when last I checked, Jim and Pam checked out Dwight's inn, gave it an excellent review, and consoled him through his breakup. Cruel, indeed!

Wow. Sounds hilarious. No wonder I stopped watching The Office this season.

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