 The series was directed by Edgar Wright, with whom Pegg and Stevenson had previously worked on "Asylum", and Pegg wrote the character of Mike Watt specifically for his friend Nick Frost.For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a British Comedy Award as Best Male Comedy Newcomer.The experience of making a "Spaced" fantasy sequence featuring zombies led to Pegg and Wright co-writing the "romantic zombie comedy" film "Shaun of the Dead", released in April 2004, in which Pegg also starred.