This is from IGN.COM, an interview that took place at last week’s Paley Festival in Los Angeles.

IGN INTERVIEW

Asked how McSpaced was progressing, McG replied.

“It’s going well. I sure wish that Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg were involved. I chased after the show because I’m a huge fan of their collective voice – you know, Nick Frost and the whole gang. I’ve never spoken to them and I would very much like to make it clear that I’d bend over backwards to have them involved in any capacity that they see fit. They’re the reason I went after the show originally and I certainly intend to respect them in every way that I know how.”

Okay, how’s this for a check list of ways to respect us:

1) Note that there are also two women responsible for the creation of SPACED, co-writer and star Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), not to mention producer of both series, Nira Park

2) Contact us before a) announcing the show in the trades b) hiring a writer c) shopping it to a network d) acquiring the rights e) crowing on about what huge fans you are.

3) Bend over backwards to pick up the phone. You got in touch with James Cameron before commencing TERMINATOR 4, but didn’t see it fit to contact any or all of us before developing this.*

(*It’s worth pointing out that McG has actually been in touch - at least by voicemail - reaching out to me last week. Weird that he managed to obtain my number in late March and not during the two or three months before the Variety article in October. So only eight months late.)

I could go on with my list, but this exhausts me as much as I’m sure it exhausts you.

I will leave you with one other comment that McG had about pilot writer Adam Barr.

“Adam Barr is writing the show. He’s a very smart guy and he’s written a pilot that everyone’s excited about.”

Yeah, McG, that would be the first episode of the original series, by Simon and Jessica. Maybe have a look at the original again. Or perhaps for the first time. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

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