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In the Works: Coolio & the Gang and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/30/2007
Oxygen has OK'd a reality show about rapper Coolio's attempts to raise six teens as a single parent. Coolio & the Gang will debut in the second quarter of '08.... Fox and McG (The O.C.) are developing Spaced, a comedy based (of course) on a British series from Shaun of the Dead creators Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. In it, two singles pose as a couple so they can rent a flat. Er, apartment.... Andy Barker, P.I. creator Jonathan Groff's new laffer, Private Lives of Public People, started a bidding war between ABC and CBS. In the end, the Eye landed the pilot about upstanding citizens whose home lives are disastrous.... Arrested Development alum Abraham Higginbotham got a go-ahead from Fox for his untitled comedy pilot featuring Reno 911's Niecy Nash among the lowbrow staffers at a highfalutin NYC hotel. — Ben Katner read more
New Star Trek "Pines" for Kirk as it Casts Scotty, Sulu and Baddie | Today's News: Our Take | 10/12/2007
Gloucester, England-born Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) and Harold & Kumar's John Cho are boarding J.J. Abrams' Star Trek feature in the roles of engineering wizard/Romulan-ale enthusiast Montgomery Scott and Lt. Hikaru Sulu, says the Reporter. They join other future Enterprisers Zachary Quinto (as Spock), Zoe Saldana (Uhura) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov), while Eric Bana has been tapped to play the villain. I know what you're wondering: But who... has... the com? According to the trades, Chris Pine is in talks to play young Kirk. Just My Luck, indeed. For more discussion of the Star Trek castings, listen to the Oct. 12 TV Guide Talk podcast. read more
DVD Tuesday: Hot Fuzz, a Crime Spoof with Real Thrills! | Ask FlickChick | 7/31/2007
DVD Tuesday: Hot Fuzz pokes pitch-perfect fun at the excesses of Hollywood cop pictures while simultaneously delivering real action. How cool is that?This week's DVD Tuesday pick isn't profound or obscure or controversial: I just loved it. Hot Fuzz does for American-style buddy-cop pictures what Shaun of the Dead (2004) did for zombie movies: Writer-director Edgar Wright and cowriter Simon Pegg take every cliché, every stock character, every narrative contrivance and give it a sly half twist. The result is so close to the real thing, a careless channel surfer could go right by without realizing it wasn't, while being completely, utterly hilarious — even more so on a second viewing. Pegg plays London supercop Nicholas Angel, whose compulsive overachieving has cost him his girlfriend and his job: The girlfriend because she's sick of competing with the job and the job because everyone else is sick of competing with Angel and coming up short. So to keep peace in the ranks,... read more
FlickChick | 11/17/2005
While on vacation recently I came across a movie about  zombies. The non-zombies were either British or Irish, read more
Dead and Loving It | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/22/2004
It's not a big-budget action flick like the upcoming Alexander or a high-toned biopic like next month's Ray, but Shaun of the Dead (opening Friday) is one of the best movies you're likely to see this fall. A "romantic zombie comedy" from England, Shaun is both a dead-on homage to such genre classics as Evil Dead II, 28 Days Later ? and, of course, Dawn of the Dead ? and pretty hilarious besides. Director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg spent 18 months crafting the screenplay, which follows ... read more

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Simon Pegg: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Star Trek (Actor - Scotty)	2009	Movie
Diary Of The Dead (Actor - Voice--uncredited)	2008	Movie
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (Actor - Sidney Young)	2008	Movie
Hot Fuzz (Actor - Sergeant Nicholas Angel)	2007	Movie
Hot Fuzz (Writer)	2007	Movie