NEW COMEDY
Space Force
From Friday 29 May, 10 episodes as a box set, Netflix
Some ideas are so fantastical that they could only be real. Space Force, a new Netflix comedy about a special galactic division of the US military, came from a speech in 2018 by US President Donald Trump. In a surprise move, he announced: ‘We must have American dominance in space… and establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.’
Those two words – ‘Space Force’ – set brains whirring at Netflix. They’d been looking for a project that would suit Steve Carell and his old friend from the US version of The Office, the writer Greg Daniels.
‘Netflix asked, “Do you want to do a show called Space Force?’” says Carell, 57. ‘And I pretty much immediately said, “Well, yeah, sure. That sounds great.” And then I called Greg, and he loved the title, too. So it was really based on nothing, except this name that made everybody laugh.’
This story is from the May 23, 2020 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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