
Scripted series · Channel 4
Spaced
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
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Signature profile
Spaced reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S02E05
Gone
When Sophie has to cancel a date with Tim at short notice, he and Daisy decide to go out for the evening, leaving Mike and Brian in charge of walking Colin. Tim and Daisy's adventures include bumping into Tim's old enemy Duane Benzie, a group of angry teens who are trying to score, and losing their keys.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E07
Leaves
When Tim, Daisy and the others discover that Marsha has put the place up for sale, they panic and start trying to make plans to find her and win her back. Meanwhile, Daisy is offered a job on a local newspaper back home, and decides to take it, and Sophie is also leaving for a new job - though hers is in Seattle. After successfully getting through to Marsha, Tim finds the note from Daisy saying she's leaving. He is forced to send Mike to take Sophie to the airport whilst he rushes to the train station to persuade Daisy to stay.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S01E04
Battles
After being dumped by her boyfriend, Daisy decides she needs companionship and heads to the pound to get herself a dog, not realizing that Tim is scared of dogs. Meanwhile, Tim and Mike go paint balling, and meet up with Duane Benzie, the man who Tim's ex girlfriend Sarah left him for.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E06
Dissolution
The gang go out for dinner to celebrate Daisy's birthday, and Marsha gets very suspicious as Tim flirts constantly with Sophie and seems to pay no attention to Daisy. She eventually tells Daisy that she saw the two of them kissing, leading Daisy to admit that she and Tim aren't really a couple and never were. Marsha is devastated to find out that they'd all been lying to her, and storms out of the restaurant and then the flat.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E04
Help
Tim is delighted but nervous as anything when Damian Knox of Darkstar Comics asks him to bring in his portfolio. The last time they met Knox cruelly put down Tim's work, hence Tim drew a less than flattering portrait of him. Daisy puts this drawing into Tim's portfolio, trying to help, and leaving Tim with a short time to retrieve the drawing, with the assistance of Mike and Tyres.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S01E07
Ends
Tim's ex Sarah calls him up and wants to get together, Tim is over the moon at the idea of them getting back together, though Mike and Daisy are less impressed and worried about him getting hurt again. Meanwhile, Mike is up for re-evaluation for the TA, and is delighted to be let back in. Tim meets up with Sarah and it turns out she really does want to try again with him, but at the last moment he sees sense and declines, not wanting to give up all his has with Daisy and his friends.
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S02E07
Leaves
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E06
Dissolution
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E05
Gone
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E04
Help
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E03
Mettle
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes

S02E02
Change
- Directed by Edgar Wright
- Written by Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes
Behind the series
Created by
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The craft
Key Crew
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Executive production
- Gareth EdwardsProducer
- Nira ParkProducer
- Humphrey BarclayProducer
Writing
- Simon PeggWriter
- Jessica HynesWriter
Direction
- Edgar WrightDirector
Cinematography
- Andy HollisDirector of Photography
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