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Pain can be a beautiful thing. And in my case quite an inspiring thing too. For the last 5 days I've been stuck in hospital with severe back pains - which have meant I've been totally bed bound, and completely dependent on the nurses at Kings... 0 Onwards and upwards by Steve Barrett , 01 December 2009, 18:03 I have thought long and hard about ...

Channel 4's Spaced was one of the most brilliant comedies to have been written in the past 20 years and it's currently mid-series repeat on Dave on Monday nights.

Ever since I can remember, I've enjoyed British comedy. Growing up, I would tune into late-night PBS for its BBC America feed.

Before they brought you Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright developed a short-lived TV series that would become one of the best sitcoms at the time.

You know how sometimes you hear about a film that has so many good ingredients, it can't help but be the best thing since antibodies? Such a flick is Richard Curtis's "Pirate Radio" . It's very difficult to imagine a better ingredients list for what sounds like a lighthearted movie with maybe a sneaky message or two.

Shaun of the Dead was good, Sex Lives of the Potato Men was bad. So how do you avoid a Britcom disaster? Spaced, but different a Shaun of the Dead.

Nick Frost will star in a BBC2 adaptation of Martin Amis's Money and Sophie Dahl will present a cookery show in the new season of programmes for early 2010.

If you've ever rented a grotty flat, done a rubbish job or watched a lot of 90s telly and films, you'll love Spaced Few sitcoms demonstrate how to escape a teenage mugging using the power of mime, how to use "sex noise" sound effects to fool your landlady, how to profess your sorrow through the medium of a tank, or how to liberate kidnapped pets ...

Attack the Block is set to be the directorial debut of Joe Cornish , a south London comedy-action film that will pitch a gang of yoots against an alien invasion.

Nick Frost arrives at the 'The Boat That Rocked MARTINI World Premiere Party' held at the MARTINI Terrazza on March 23, 2009 in London, England.

October 16, 2009 at 3:52 pm by Curt Holman in Comedy , Pop Culture , movies & tv , review During a tumultuous downer of a decade, it's been awfully decent of the British to deliver up so many great comedy teams to distract us from out troubles.

Most filmgoers of the past six years will recognize at least one of the gentlemen best known for the subversive comedies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

David Tennant and Simon Pegg will star in John Landis' next film Burke and Hare .

The Series: I really loved the first season of Manstrokewoman and it was hard waiting the two years before the second, and final, season arrived on DVD.

Peter Serafinowicz has suggested that Spaced 's dedicated fanbase can bring the cult Channel 4 show back as a movie.

Vince Vaughn. Kristen Bell. Jason Bateman. Jon Favreau. Kristin Davis. Malin Akerman.

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Edgar Wright took the jump to international writing-directing fame with his hilarious 2004 comedy Shaun of the Dead .

A host of faces from the alternative end of the sitcom spectrum stars in this 'mockumentary' from writer/director Debbie Isitt.

HE'S no stranger to raising the dead for laughs. Now actor Simon Pegg has been lined-up for a role in a new comic-horror about Edinburgh's most famous criminals a ' Burke and Hare.

Comic shop They Walk Among Us, best known as the workplace of Tim Bisley in the television series Spaced , will close at the end of September.