Lets face it...Britain very rarely makes a good entertaining and original television program nowadays, but when the planets are in perfect allignment you better hold onto your hats becasue occasionally we can produce programming of absolute beauty. 100% original, hilarious, heart warming, clever and downright genius programming that you could never replicate. For me the main contender is "SPACED" a modern sitcom penned by Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson (or Jessica Hynes depending on when you first saw her) and Edgar Wright. These are the same people who brought us "Shaun of the dead" and "Hot Fuzz" But forget those movies for a second becasue this was out waaay before. Spaced is one of those shows that because of my age, and where i live i feel (like a lot of others) that i can relate to it. I love this show. Its my favourite television show ever BUT I wont hark on about it too much becasue im deterring from my actual point. The point i want to cover is...American remakes! Now if your a fellow SPACED fan and your reading this thinking "What?! hes relating Spaced and american remakes? is there going to be a remake of spaced? this cant happen ever! i will kill myself before i accept that!" then please calm down! Yes this was my first reaction when i heard about it HOWEVER it all turned out to be a farse. There will be no american remake, i will repeat it just to calm you down THERE WILL BE NO AMERICAN REMAKE!!! becasue unlike a lot of money hungry and stupid people, Pegg, Stevenson and Wright are not stupid enough to destroy something so beautiful.

Why would an American remake destroy SPACED? well simple really...Becasue its not needed! simple enough! It doesnt have to exist. These are the things you would lose with an American remake: You would lose the main writers, because although the original writers would get input, the show needs to now relate to an American demographic meaning a lot would need to be changed content wise. Also i doubt the directing skills of Edgar Wright would be needed as Americans very much like to do things "their way"

Dont get me wrong i have nothing particually wrong with American television. After all they did make "The X-Files" (or was that Canada?) and without that i dont know what i would do. It just amazes me that if some American Big wig sees a British show he likes, why does he then think to himself "Hmm this is really good! i relate to it and i pretty much get it all! But i need to remake it with a new cast, new writers and it needs American accents!" Does this bigwig producer doubt the intelligence of his or her audience? Im probably wrong but i can't for the life of me think of one American program (other than gameshows) that we have remade. We get A LOT of American shows over here and although a lot of them (the daytime sitcoms) i despise i think i pretty much get all the jokes. sure theres the occasional American pop culture reference that goes over my head but i dont lose any sleep over it.

To me an American remake is a lot like a really bad cover band. You cant see the real band so you take a chance and go and see this "critically acclaimed" cover act who promise to play all the hits. You get there and on the stage appear 5 obese leather clad lime jelly filled potato sacks, wobbling around the stage dying on their arse. people are laughing ... but not for the right reasons and its all very embarassing.

If you still not convinced and are thinking "but what about the American Office? wasnt't that alright?" No! it wasn't alright. it was shameless money making and it was nothing on the original. If your not convinced simply go on youtube and search for "Red Dwarf US Pilot" and you will be converted to my church of anti American Re-makes.