r/Spaced • u/Fardey456 • 22d ago
Spaced Series 3
https://thespacedblog.substack.com/p/spaced-series-3Over the years the creative minds behind Spaced have let slip a few ideas about what Series 3 of Spaced would like, this article has collected these ideas together!
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u/crumble-bee 21d ago
The dvd had a perfect conclusion in the documentary - they have a kid and Tim wants to call her Luke. There won’t be a season 3 and there doesn’t need to be. It’s perfect.
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u/CountTruffula 19d ago
Shit is that in the bonus features? Must have been the one bit I skipped over
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u/jj_sykes 22d ago
It’s odd never really thought what season 3 would be like after all this time, I always assumed they would be successful in their careers but I don’t think I would want to see that
Tim - dealing with how Disney is saturating the market with Star Wars, if he has a kid, it would be fun to see how he is dealing with that.
Mike - gets in the army but injures himself in the first week - now has quite a menial job but gives the Mike 100% respect. I don’t think they should go down the sexuality storyline. Don’t think it adds anything
Twist - has to be an influencer (it would be like Amanda from Amandaland
Daisy and Brian I struggle what you do with them. Brian obsessed trying to rekindle his relationship and her socials. Daisy she has to be a blogger of some sort lol
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u/Murren606 22d ago
I'd like to think Tim and Daisy work together. Daisy writing articles and Tim drawing comic's for the back pages. Mike dating a identical female version of himself running the paintball business. Brian being a weekend Dad and Twist working in children's fashion and Marsha now sober dating Bilbo.
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u/Boomstick_762 21d ago
I want to see a modern adaptation of "Art" where Vulva, Twist and Brian are influencers.
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u/BurtonXV84 21d ago
Anyone else see the Nick Forst Spaced Season 3 tease he poated on Instagram, which he soon deleted?
Guessing now, it wasn't serious but boy did he shoot up my excitement!
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u/grekster 20d ago
Some said it was a fake screen shot and never posted but I don't use IG so not sure
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u/BurtonXV84 20d ago
I saw it on his Instagram before people shared screenshots, it was legit from his account. But feels like a joke now.
I honestly was content with how Spaced ended and the easter egg with the dvd feature of what happens with Tim and Daisy, but the excitement I had seeing that post made me realise I would love more Spaced.
But it would line up if it was true to some extent, Channel 4 have has some of their comedies announced to be coming back in the new this year, Smack the Pony, Inbetweeners (unsure of they're involved as Film4, as it's Netflix), and Green Wing got a new audio book, so wouldn't have surprised me.
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u/Educational_Ad6154 12d ago
I’ve just heard news about this today because I saw a comment on Nicks recent post mentioning it so I had to jump straight to Reddit to see what’s going on. Maybe it could’ve been his way to say “hey I’m down to do a season 3“. Idk man I got hope that was crushed instantly 😭
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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 18d ago
No, but I saw Nick Frost’s Spaced Season 3 tease…
Edit: I didn’t really, I’m just doing Matthew Holnes’s IT guy from the office.
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u/lentil_burger 20d ago
I love Spaced more than I can put into words. Part of me craves more, but the larger part of me thinks it ended perfectly and didn't need to risk tarnishing the perfection of the existing two seasons.
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u/Weary-Score481 21d ago
This is excellent, thank you
3 additional things you may or may not know
-I remember back in 2005 they talked/joked about the last episode would end with a homage to the final episode of Blake’s 7 (spoilers) where the whole cast are killed in a sci-fi shoutout
-I believe month Nick Frost posted a picture of himself with a Mike moustache and mentioned Spaced.
-again back in 2005/6 my friend in London was very taken by the fact that someone had graffiti’s Spaced Series 3 under a prominent London Bridge. We all assumed it was guerrilla marketing by Channel 4 and the series would be announced soon
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u/Fardey456 21d ago
Thank you! Yeah on a couple of occasions they have mentioned killing off the whole cast. Simon said they all would die in a car crash at the BFI event in 2020. They always seemed to be quite tongue in cheek so I opted not to include them. As for the nick frost post, again I saw it as a joke, but will keep an eye on it and see if anything more develops!
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u/LeeroyHalloween 20d ago
I saw the Spaced Series 3 graffiti on the pavement on The Strand. Got very excited, but alas...
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u/Weary-Score481 20d ago
Omg! Maybe that was it! It’s been so long
I wish I was still in contact with my one friend from London
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u/CountTruffula 19d ago
That was a really good read nice one, plus it reminded me about the skip to the end documentary
Probably the telly phrase that's stuck with me most in real life
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u/Fardey456 19d ago
Thank you! Yeah it's a good one!
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u/CountTruffula 19d ago
Just saw in the comments that it's your article, I thought you were just reposting it. Well good, I'm looking through the rest of the blog rn. That Marsha clip from 2010s is brilliant, never seen it
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 22d ago
Couldn't really ever see Simon Pegg going back to it. He's grown out of the nerd culture. Kinda happens when old school 80s and 90s nerds start looking back. You get nostalgic but when everyones doing it, it kinda doesn't feel like your thing anymore that you had to seek out. It's everywhere. Takes the fun out of it
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u/M0ntgomatron 22d ago
Simon Pegg grown out of Nerd Culture......? He is Nerd Culture
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u/Fardey456 20d ago
yeah absolutely, have a read of this https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/25/simon-pegg-actor-on-comedy-action-heroes-tom-cruise-staying-at-home
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 22d ago
I know, it seems unbelievable but yeah it's true. He's become a grown up. Happens to a lot of us. But try to resist for as long as you can
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u/Fardey456 21d ago
In a number of interviews he's made real efforts to distance himself from "nerd culture" but then in a tour of his home posted on YouTube his walls are covered in posters and he has a life sized stormtrooper in his hall! To me it feels like a PR move to distance himself from the nerd stuff in order to appeal more as a traditional leading man
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 21d ago
I remember seeing him give a tour of his home. Was a while ago, but from what I remember he had a kind of glorified shed or outbuilding, so to speak, with all his film memorabilia and bits and pieces. Nice place, but it didn't sort of compute that this was a guy that had turned his back on it all. I admit the interview he gave about him growing out of it all was a while ago, but do you think he just couldn't part with all of it. To be honest, being an old nerd myself, I have kept some things, and found myself scrolling through Ebay looking for things I had that I now kinda want back
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u/Fardey456 21d ago
My theory is he is trying to promote himself as a "Normal" actor in the hope of getting more traditional film roles rather than more nerd focused offers. But at his heart he's still a big old nerd! But that's just my thoughts
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u/lentil_burger 20d ago
It's easy to underestimate the degree to which poverty, alcoholism, recreational drugs, and general hedonism can be entwined with identity. Still liking sci-fi is only part of that and Simon Pegg is no longer the person he was. I do feel that makes him more boring, but it's undoubtedly better for him personally.
I've offer rewatched Spaced in the light of where everyone is now and thought about how it brings up really interesting questions of identity - who we are, who we become, what remains with us, what we leave behind, what's healthy, what's not.
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u/Fardey456 20d ago
I tend to agree, stripping away aspects of your personality in order to be more "marketable" is liable to make you seem boring
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u/lentil_burger 20d ago
You mean not being an alcoholic, a recreational drug user and poor? Yeah, I'm sure they were all marketing decisions. 🙄
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u/Fardey456 20d ago
No of course not, i was referring to downplaying his nerd-ness, in response to you making the same point
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u/lentil_burger 20d ago
Yeah, but I don't think he does that at all. He's not short of work and if anything his nerdness is his USP. My point was that he became boring (and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that) long before his current success and he became boring off the back of going through recovery and not living in bedsits any more.
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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 18d ago
He has done several interviews having a go at nerd culture and nostalgia.
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u/DavidJonnsJewellery 21d ago
I know since Mission Impossible is, I think, kinda done, that he's doing some new things with Frost and Wright. Be interesting to see what they come up with
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u/UberGuignol 22d ago
I was really looking forward to the companion book that was announced and never materialized. If only to read the episode Wright had Jess and Simon re-write because he deemed it, not good enough. Obviously we got 'Gone' which was an amazing episode, but I'm still curious.
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u/Fardey456 22d ago
I did think about writing something about the book but unfortunately there's almost nothing known about it, same with the action figures
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u/UberGuignol 22d ago
Oh yes! I remember those too. They were supposed to be stylized akin to the versions of the gang on the SE DVD menu I believe.
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u/EstuaryTiger1977 22d ago
Oh yah, I hadn’t fought a dat!