Spaced to get US revamp? - Oct 31 2007
Hit sitcom Spaced is reportedly set to get a new life when it's remade for US television.

A pilot of the British comedy series, which starred Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (now Hynes), is to be made - and if it's a hit it will be adapted for American audiences and shown on Fox, according to Variety.com.

Producer and writer Adam Barr, who has worked on Will & Grace and Desperate Housewives, is to revamp the show for its US pilot.

Spaced, which was written by Simon and Edgar Wright, as well as Jessica, focused on a pair of Londoners who posed as a couple to rent a cheap flat, and ended up becoming involved in the surreal antics of their friends and neighbours.

The series launched the career of Simon, who has gone on to star in Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, and is now lined up to play Scotty in the forthcoming Star Trek movie.


Jessica hits out at modern women - May 25 2007
Jessica Stevenson has issued a stinging criticism of modern women, saying she wonders how children of the suffragettes have become "obsessed with scented candles".

The 34-year-old, who has changed her surname to Hynes since marrying husband Adam, will make her debut as Doctor Who’s love interest in tomorrow night’s episode.

But the Magicians actress has also been researching a project about the suffragette movement, which led her to tell The Guardian that she despairs at the attitudes of women today.

"Women now define themselves through their lifestyle, by their shoes and sofa throws," she said. "100 years ago, women defined themselves much more by their character and interests.

"I wondered how women - so enthused, so galvanised, so passionate - could have organised one of the most successful political campaigns in British history. Compare that with now when they are obsessed with scented candles.

"Not so say that all women are like that but it’s still depressing that politicised, sophisticated women are few and far between."

As well as the cult hit TV show Spaced, Jessica has also appeared on the big screen in Confetti and Shaun Of The Dead.

Jessica’s ’boring’ date with Walliams - Oct 18 2006
Comedy actress Jessica Stevenson has admitted to a "boring" date with Little Britain star David Walliams - which ended with him buying her a box of smarties.

The award-winning comedienne, best-known as one of the creators of the sitcom Spaced, said: "I went on a date with him and he was quite boring. He ended up going out with my friend... he bought me some smarties."

The revelations are unlikely to bother David, who has been regularly photographed with well-known beauties.

Jessica, who most recently starred in the British romantic comedy Confetti and is set to appear in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, revealed her romantic history when she appeared on the Russell Brand’s Got Issues show.

She added that she once stole her friend’s brother’s pillowcase because she had a crush on her friend, adding: "I was 16. I was in the house of a very good friend. A boy I had had a crush on for five years had slept over in my friend’s brother’s bedroom so I stole the pillowcase..."