{"id":698,"date":"2007-11-02T18:46:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2007-11-02T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T01:46:54","slug":"mcg-to-remake-spaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"McG to remake Spaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like someone announcing a train will soon cross a busy crossway. It might be cool to see the train, but part of you also suspects it&#8217;s just asking for trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmjunk.com\/2007\/10\/30\/mcg-to-produce-us-remake-of-edgar-wright-and-simon-peggs-spaced\/\">Fox has announced<\/a> that they will be bringing the Edgar Wright\/Simon Pegg\/Jessica Hynes series Spaced to American television. Not as was originally filmed, but as a remake, helmed by McG.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s when my heart stopped too.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly The Office translated well to the US, but then they had the involvement of Ricky Gervais, one of the creators of the original show (plus a fantastic cast.) Let&#8217;s us not forget the questionable decision to bring over The IT Crowd, or the confirmed, wet, flatulent flop that was the US remake of Red Dwarf.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if I were to stand directly on the train tracks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like someone announcing a train will soon cross a busy crossway. It might be cool to see the train, but part of you also suspects it&#8217;s just asking for trouble. Fox has announced that they will be bringing the Edgar Wright\/Simon Pegg\/Jessica Hynes series Spaced to American television. Not as was originally filmed, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}