SPACE FORCE
NETFLIX Available: Friday 29 May
Season: 1 Episodes: 10
NEW COMEDY
Some ideas are so fantastical that they could only be real… Space Force, a new Netflix comedy about a galactic division of the US military, came from a speech in 2018 by Donald Trump.
In a surprise move, the US President 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 had been looking for a project that would suit award-winning American film and TV star Steve Carell and his friend from the US version of The Office, writer Greg Daniels.
‘Netflix asked, “Do you want to do a show called Space Force?’” says Steve, 57. ‘And I pretty much immediately said, “Well, yeah, sure. That sounds great.” 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 Times.
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