Deadwood
With Entourage, Bored To Death and Mrs Brown’s Boys all heading towards the big screen, we here cast our minds around to figure out which shows we’d want to have their own movies made off of them.
From unresolved endings to simply wanting more of our favourite characters, these are the hand full of shows we wish were having movie spin-offs or sequels made right now.
Veronica Mars
This was a show that rapidly went downhill in its third year due to poor management, yet still remains one of the best TV shows to have seen its time cut short.
The show that launched Kristen Bell in to the spotlight had her star as the titular Veronica, a high school girl who just happens to do a little private detective work on the side. This was a teen drama not just filled the same old angst, but actually with a whole heap of substance, with Veronica’s mysteries massive head scratchers that would often leave you as in the dark as our heroine.
The show may have been canned after poor rating for series three, but creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell have always been keen to bring it back. They even filmed a sample of what a fourth series might entail for the networks consideration before being turned down once again.
Since then, Bell’s always spoken about her passion for the project, even saying that she’d be willing to self-fund the movie if needs be. If it takes a couple more dodgy rom-coms to do that, we’ll buy the tickets right now Kristen.
Reaper
It’s a show in which a slacker is tasked by the devil to chase down escaped demons using nothing but his small abundance of wits, his friends and a single random implement given to him by the prince of darkness. What’s not to like?
This was a show that revelled in the utterly bonkers premise, taking its supernatural hooks and having an absolute hoot of a time.
The show was cruelly cancelled after only two series and set itself up perfectly for a cap, with the fate of lead character’s soul still undecided and so much more to be resolved. A feature length closer would make for the perfect finale.
Deadwood
Django Unchained may have yet again show that there’s life in the western at the Box Office, but while that film’s filled with Tarantino weirdness, HBO’s phenomenal Deadwood showed that even the traditional western can be utterly riveting.
Focusing on the titular town’s growth in the old west, this was show full of fantastically deep and rugged characters. The show was beloved by audiences, critics and award shows alike, picking up a Golden Globe and eight Emmys during its three seasons.
There was even talk of a pair of special TV movies off of the back of the show, but the trail on those shows has gone cold. While we still hold out hope visiting Deadwood once again and hearing what horrific insults Ian McShane can throw at people, we don’t think that we’ll be getting there any time soon.
Lie To Me
Police procedurals are two a penny in America, heck; we have two (arguably three) on this list alone, but Lie To Me was one of the most interesting examples of the genre to come out in years when it hit the airwaves in 2009. Mainly as it didn’t actually feature any cops.
The show lasted for three years, during which we got to know the fantastically nowty Doctor Cal Lightman, an expert in ‘micro-expressions’ and with the brilliant ability to almost instantly tell if you’re lying or not. A rather wonderful skill to have, don’t you think?
Cal and Tim Roth were such an utterly watchable combination that we don’t really care what he would be up to. Doing the dishes, buying a sofa or uncovering an enormous plot would all somehow be made compelling.
Freaks And Geeks
This show, for many, will always remain the greatest show ever made about the uncertainty and oddness of teenage life. Possibly still Judd Apatow’s masterpiece, this short lived series showed the ups and down of a group of misfits in the eighties, dealing with what it really meant to be going through the most turbulent time of their lives.
The trouble with any cinematic version of the TV show though is that nearly every single member of the cast has gone on to big things. Trying to wrangle James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segal and Busy Phillips is a massive undertaking that only really Apatow might be able to accomplish.
While this film can now never really happen with the release of This Is 40 covering most of the same ground that a Freaks and Geeks update would do, we still hope that someday we might find out what happened to our favourite teenage outsiders.
Are there any shows that you’d like to see come back in movie form? Let us know in the comments below.
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